OT: Free Anti Virus Program - Page 2

Arkcon · #11 October 15th, 2004, 08:17 PM

I was using AVG for a while: http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php It's pretty good, I go download it whenever I find that someone doesn't have an Antivirus program. It was fully compatable from day 1 with Win XP SP2, which is nice.

But Spybot 1.3 is a must have. Its very good at purging junk from your hard drive.

AgentZero · #12 October 15th, 2004, 10:05 PM

Tell me about it. When I first got my internet connection, I grabbed a trial Version of Norton Internet Security. On I think day 13 of the 15 day trial I had to go away for work, but left the computer on since I'd just started downloading some big files. I come back, Norton has switched itself off 2 days ago and my poor computer is riddled with viruses and spyware. Don't even know how the spyware got in there but spybot found 251 'Entities'. Fortunately on the virus front a nice boot scan by Avast cleared things out nicely.

I think it's a sad reflection upon the state of internet society that we have to build these massive digital fortresses to keep ourselves safe. Anti-virus, spyware, firewalls, spam-guards, mail-filters....

mac5732 · #13 October 15th, 2004, 10:49 PM

AT, with the problems I've had with viruses I know how you feel. I now use Norton Anti Virus, Panda, adware, Kerio Firewall and Hack this.

Kerio is free, adware is free, Panda half and half, hack this is free. I run them at least once a week. also Adware has caught viruses for me including a trojan that Norton didn't find... You want adware 6.0 and its updates.

my 2 cents

Atrocities · #14 October 15th, 2004, 11:10 PM

Mac I just used the Hack This and the security web site and it was they who suggested using the above three programs. Combined the two adware programs found 160 or more spyware, adware, trojans on my system that PestPatrol missed. Also the Panda AVP found a virus that Nortan Missed.

I am hopeful that when I reboot my system won't crash.

Any ways, great minds think alike.

The reason this is has become an issue for me is because I get, on average, about 40 or more virus emails a day through my three email accounts, not to mention the two other people who use this PC on occation have email accounts as well.

So this all adds up. I try to stay on top of it, but with this latest round of suspicious problems, I had felt it was time to ask for more help. I am glad I did provided my system does not die as a result of deleting all those pests.