[gowest07]

I've just bought a new laptop, ' Acer '5715Z, running Vista Home . Had lots of problems in the past with virus's etc, so what do you think of me running with AVG free and Zone Alarm free, also occasionally running Spybot and Adaware. Are these ok and should I add anything else. Is Vista firewall ok or stick with Zone Alarm ?
I appretiate and respect your comments, thanks.

[lunarlander]

Zone Alarm is easier to configure than Vista's firewall, so I would keep Zone alarm.

If you want you can add ThreatFire. It is a behavior driven antivirus, and not signature driven like AVG. So it can potentially stop new nasties that the other companies don't have a signature for yet.

[RootbeaR]

Originally Posted by gowest07

I've just bought a new laptop, ' Acer '5715Z, running Vista Home . Had lots of problems in the past with virus's etc, so what do you think of me running with AVG free and Zone Alarm free, also occasionally running Spybot and Adaware. Are these ok and should I add anything else. Is Vista firewall ok or stick with Zone Alarm ?
I appretiate and respect your comments, thanks.

I personally like a hardware firewall. In addition to.

[lunarlander]

Do you have a router? If you don't, then go get one and do not jack your laptop directly into the modem. A router hides the PCs connected to it from the internet and offers some security protection. I agree with Rootbear and I have a hardware firewall router too. A economical one to start with is DLink DIR-130.

[DarqueMist]

for on demand antispyware you might want to consider adding either Malwarebytes or SUPERAntiSpyware (these two seem to be the top of the class at the moment and both offer free versions)

[gowest07]

Thanks everyone, I appretiate your help.