 | Senior Member with 143 posts. | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Experience: Intermediate | | Free Anti Virus Software My Norton subscription is going to expire in two weeks and I've heard that there are some really good free anti virus programs out there, Do the experts here recommend getting one of those free programs (and if so, which one), or do your recommend getting one that I have to pay for (and again which one)? Thank you for your time | | Senior Member with 632 posts. | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: West Yorks Experience: Advanced | | | | | Senior Member with 677 posts. | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Mumbai, India Experience: the 9th wonder :P | | two of them are highly recommend by me,
avira antivir personal and avast home edition, it would be good to add a firewall protection since your firewall is the first line of defense. | | Distinguished Member with 3,606 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Near Washington, D.C. Experience: Advanced in Networking | | The ones that are listed are often considered very good, although I currently use McAfee (paid.) | | Junior Member with 22 posts. | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Experience: Beginner | | i will vouch for avg and avast. avg i think is more powerfull and gives better protection, but avast is simpler to use.
both of these do not use anywhere near the same level of system resources that norton does. norton is a pig.
as for firewall, it is best to have one of these. and also spyware scanners.
think of it this way, some programs like norton are jack of all trades but masters of none, whereas; AVG: best antivirus, Comodo firewall: best firewall, and Spyware doctor: best spyware/malware. | | Distinguished Member with 7,157 posts. | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Cyberspace Experience: Advanced | | Personaly, I recommend: - ESET Smart Security (NOD32 antivirus + firewall + anti-spyware)
- Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (free)
- SuperAntiSpyware (free)
- SpywareBlaster (free)
Free antivirus programs... | | Senior Member with 226 posts. | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Experience: Advanced | | Phantom010,
How would you rate Spyware Seek and Destroy, and Adware Pro.? | | Distinguished Member with 7,157 posts. | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Cyberspace Experience: Advanced | | Quote:
Originally Posted by sdikevin Phantom010,
How would you rate Spyware Seek and Destroy, and Adware Pro.? | I'm not familiar with both. The Adware Pro website though isn't trustworthy according to WOT. Makes me think it might be a rogue software...
As for Spyware Seek and Destroy, are you sure you're not talking about Spybot? | | Distinguished Member with 27,847 posts. | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: uk Experience: Chocoholic | | Avast
Malwarebytes Pro was free to me
spywareblaster
Winpatrol
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| | Senior Member with 338 posts. | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: devon uk Experience: Computer Illiterate |
02-Jul-2009, 02:52 PM
#10 | Hi
I have used AVG free as anti virus, ZoneAlarm as a firewall, Spamfighter as an anti spam and run Adaware (free) from time to time.
I may be pushing my luck a bit but while I have had a lot of other problems outside intrusions are not among them.
Best of luck.
phil | | Senior Member with 226 posts. | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Experience: Advanced |
02-Jul-2009, 03:04 PM
#11 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Phantom010 I'm not familiar with both. The Adware Pro website though isn't trustworthy according to WOT. Makes me think it might be a rogue software...
As for Spyware Seek and Destroy, are you sure you're not talking about Spybot? |
opps yeah spybot lol. A friend told me about adware a few years ago, I will be removing that when i get home. | | Distinguished Member with 7,157 posts. | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Cyberspace Experience: Advanced |
02-Jul-2009, 03:05 PM
#12 | Is it Ad-Aware or Adware? Ad-Aware is legit. | | Senior Member with 226 posts. | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Experience: Advanced |
02-Jul-2009, 03:16 PM
#13 | Ad-Aware....i'm not home to look at the programs so i was trying to go off memory. | | Distinguished Member with 7,157 posts. | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Cyberspace Experience: Advanced |
02-Jul-2009, 03:20 PM
#14 | Well, personaly, I think Spybot and Ad-Aware are a little outdated. There are better alternatives out there. | | Senior Member with 226 posts. | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Experience: Advanced |
02-Jul-2009, 03:29 PM
#15 | what would you recommend as good replacements for them? |  THIS THREAD HAS EXPIRED.
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