virus protection ?

7 thoughts on “virus protection ?”

1. Soccer Dave says:

   April 5, 2010 at 3:15 pm

   Avast home edition is free and effective, it protects your PC from infected webpages, scans your downloads and emails for viruses (AVG free does neither) and has built in anti-rootkit and anti-spyware, plus it gives you the option to run a boot scan, there are very few anti-virus’s that can do this paid or otherwise and this is free.

   Avast works for 60 days from installation after which you will need to register to get your free product key which is valid for a year after which you get another free key, so it always free.

   I use Avast along side Comodo firewall both are free, light on memory and have been independently tested and proven to be more effective then Norton or Mcafee.

   Avast: http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
   Comodo: http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

   Why Avast is better then AVG:

   On AVGs official website it states that their free anti-virus software does not protect you from “poison” webpages or scan downloads and emails for viruses (Avast free edition does all 3), I’ve also tested both AVG and Avast using the EICAR test viruses, AVG allowed all the viruses onto the computer without a single warning Avast either blocked them instantly or shorty after preventing all from running, Avast is much lighter and offers far superior protection.

   What AVG does not do: http://free.avg.com/download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition

2. Shevron says:

   April 5, 2010 at 3:15 pm

   Avast has free good home edition anti-virus. no firewall included with it.
   Try Avg.com. There is Avira.com that is a free complete security software but may offer more than you need.

3. justme says:

   April 5, 2010 at 3:15 pm

   AVG is a good free anti-virus program. Windows actually has a free firewall that is as good as any others

4. RaiderHater says:

   April 5, 2010 at 3:15 pm

   AVG free is very good. Also Avira AntiVir Personal – Free Antivirus works very well also. Both on the same computer work great.

5. Robert V says:

   April 5, 2010 at 3:15 pm

   Well the best free virus protection you can get is AVG Free which is pretty good for viruses but has no firewall i would to download utorrent from their site and then go to piratebay.org and click applications tab and type in antivirus and there you go!

6. Manoj Kumar says:

   April 5, 2010 at 3:15 pm

   Dear,

   Here is very good and effective free Antivirus available to install, That is,

   Avast Home Editions

   It provides Free Antivirus and Firewall with free registration for regular updates.

   Download at http://needcom.in

   and look for

   "SafePC"

   Get all system software for free your computer must have.

7. soulshine says:

   April 5, 2010 at 3:15 pm

   AVG Free from http://free.avg.com/ – this is an anti-virus, ensure that you only have one anti-virus program installed on your computer

   Zone Alarm is a good software firewall, a router would be safer. You should ensure that your Windows firewall is on.

   Firefox is a much safer brower than IE http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0.5/releasenotes/

   Download, install, update and scan with the following free:

   You can have multiple anti-spyware/malware/adware programs to scan, ensure they are legitimate. I suggest the following:

   SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition from http://www.superantispyware.com or http://www.download.com

   Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware…
   Valid downloads of Malwarebytes only come from these sites:
   http://www.download.com
   http://www.majorgeeks.com
   http://projects.securitywonks.net

   Spybot Search & Destroy from http://www.safer-networking.org – activate TeaTimer and ensure that you immunize every time you update (Spybot S & D updates on Thursday)

   Ad-Aware 2008 Free from http://www.lavasoft.com

   CCleaner is a good tool to run once in awhile

   If you run into problems I suggest you register with the Spybot Search & Destroy Forums and post your problem in the Malware Removal Forum… they are excellent at talking people through the process of cleaning their computers. http://forums.spybot.info/

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