anti virus & online protection

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:50 pm

does anybody know of any free downloads that they reccomend, I have avast on my other desktop, couldnt seem to find the same version on the site?

help please

blizzardmusic · Post by **blizzardmusic** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:52 pm

Guideline: DON'T GET MCAFEE

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:53 pm

thanks for your help

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:53 pm

again..does anybody know of any free downloads that they reccomend, I have avast on my other desktop, couldnt seem to find the same version on the site?

please

LEQ · Post by **LEQ** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:55 pm

http://www.bullguard.com/try/bullguard- ... urity.aspx

d_three · Post by **d_three** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:55 pm

http://free.grisoft.com/

d_three · Post by **d_three** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:57 pm

LEQ wrote:http://www.bullguard.com/try/bullguard- ... urity.aspx

^^ Free copy for two months

you can get Windows LiveOneCare for 3 months after that ^^

5 months of free protection

pk- · Post by **pk-** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:03 pm

avg's alright - http://free.grisoft.com/

doesn't give you realtime protection but they update your defs for free and as long as you let it run every day it should keep on top of things

spybot s&d is good for specifically spyware - http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:06 pm

thanks for this guys, cant believe when you buy a new computer they push macafee onto you. This guy who came and fixed my other desktop said its rubbish..what a pisstake

pk- · Post by **pk-** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:10 pm

probably best not to bung loads of the free ones on the same pc though, they start detecting each other and deleting things and generally just slowing the pc down

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:14 pm

yea i think im just gonna stick with 2, one for online and an anti virus..

Pada · Post by **Pada** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:40 pm

pk- wrote:avg's alright - http://free.grisoft.com/

doesn't give you realtime protection but they update your defs for free and as long as you let it run every day it should keep on top of things

spybot s&d is good for specifically spyware - http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

^^^ THIS

mugger t · Post by **mugger t** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:53 pm

AVG or Eset - think its like £15, but worth it.
dont get noron or mcafee

fractal · Post by **fractal** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:01 am

kaspersky

elbe · Post by **elbe** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:21 am

Try looking on Cnet.co.uk

laods of diffrent freeware applications, good reviews by Cnet and by users.

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:26 am

eLBe wrote:Try looking on Cnet.co.uk

laods of diffrent freeware applications, good reviews by Cnet and by users.

definately, cnet is a really good resource, thanks for the replys people.

swomp · Post by **swomp** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:56 am

I use AVG for antivirus & Zonealarm for firewall.

Works flawlessly, and they're both free.

dr ddd · Post by **dr ddd** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:42 am

pk- wrote:avg's alright - http://free.grisoft.com/

doesn't give you realtime protection but they update your defs for free and as long as you let it run every day it should keep on top of things

i go with this (avg) and am just sensible about what files i d/l or torrent and what i open... get a firewall like zone alarm as well

most antivirus programs just end up rinsing your ram worse than a virus anyway...

also - keep on top of your software updates - most virus hackers just go to e.g. the microsoft support webby, read the security update patches and target those cos peeps dont d/l them. Basically they get microsoft to do the work for them by exposing the flaws that they can target... i've always found that quite amusing actually...

This is what i've done and in the past 10 years (on the internet pretty permanently, 24-7) i've only had one virus of any real serious nature and that was me being stupid and hungover and opening an email attachment from someone i didnt know...

Either that or get a linux machine

pk- · Post by **pk-** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:46 pm

dr ddd wrote:Either that or get a linux machine

yeah i was surprised by how easy the transition was from xp to linux (although i'm on ubuntu, which is linux for pussies), after getting stuck into red hat at work i thought it was going to be a fucking nightmare

most of the things i want to use work fine through wine and the whole experience is easily 50% faster than xp was. the amount of free alternatives to literally every program ever written is fucking brilliant too

and there's like 4 viruses written for linux in the history of mankind

legend4ry · Post by **legend4ry** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:47 pm

http://www.eset.com/products/nod32.php

Best Anti Virus there IS, FACT.

If you're looking to spend money, get this it takes a while to configure it but I haven't had a virus in about... 2 years!

Plus, 40 quid a year for a safe PC, isn't THAT bad?

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