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[ed1980]

thr norton on my laptop has expired

anyone have any advice on good programs and where i can get them ?

cheers

[BigBlackEquus]

First of all, totally remove that bloated piece of Norton trash. You might need to go to their site for a removal tool. It's that bad.

For a great free antivirus program, all you need is http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html

Several people on here swear by it, including me. There is also AVG anti-virus, which is also free, but of the two, I prefer Avast!

[Industrial Strength]

[Bulsajo]

I use AVG but I recently discovered that Avast is the only free AV program (at the moment) which supports 64bit Windows.

[BigBlackEquus]

[Industrial Strength]

[wylde]

[Bulsajo]

[Demonicat]

Personally, I like the panda. Panda Titanium routinely discovers virus and spyware which float under the nose of AVG and Spyware doctor (at least, it does in my case). Plus, you get a really cool panda icon in your tray!

[khyber]

avast yes..it's the stuff dreams are made of

[BigBlackEquus]

I want to let you guys know about something interesting. I've been running my laptop with AVG for the past week to test it out. I have been running my home computer on AVAST for over 1 1/2 years. I switched the laptop to run AVG on a whim last week, just to test it out. Here is something odd I found:

I did a test of my laptop/firewall security at www.auditmypc.com . I thought that since I am behind a wifi router, my IP address would show up as the router address. Not true. Auditmypc warned me that they could still get my internal laptop IP through the router. Ok, scary.

I tried the test on my home computer, which is running Avast. I had Zone Alarm on that too, until recently, and took it off because I figured I didn't need it, given the router. The test at auditmypc ran, and DID NOT detect my internal IP on the home computer.

So I added Zone Alarm to my laptop, thinking this would block the site from getting my internal IP. WRONG! Zone Alarm lets it right on through. And I checked very closely to make sure I wasn't allowing something to pass that I shouldn't.

Odd, I thought, that Avast seemed to block access to my internal IP, but Zone Alarm and AVG would allow it to come through. But sure enough, after I removed Zone Alarm and added Avast to my laptop, it is now secure and doesn't give away my internal IP. Avast must have something going on in there that blocks this from happening. I seem to pass the auditmypc tests fine when I run purely Avast.

I just wanted to share this information with you guys. I have been a faithful Zone Alarm user for over 2 years, and loved it, but I now dumped it. I wrote the company about this, and am curious if I will get a response. I really like Zone Alarm's alert features that tell me what otehr programs are doing sometimes, but I no longer feel it is safe.

Feel free to try the firewall test out yourself at www.auditmypc.com

[Bee Positive]

Hitman Pro will clean up your computer.

http://www.hitmanpro.com

Don't be put off by the Dutch-language homepage. Just download the English version (it's free) and let it run.



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[ulsanchris]

i've been using avast for awhile now. I was wondering how well it was working so i downloaded zonealarm security suite6. Didn't find anything avast hadn't. awhile after that I tried PCtools antivirus and still didn't find any additional viruses. Just recently tried kapersky and found a trojan avast didn't. But I think avast would have caught it if i had run a scan before testing kapersky. In short i think avast works just as well as the antivirus programs that you have to pay for.

[hepcat]

Consider selling your immune compromised system and get a Mac...No Viruses!