i need a totally free anti-virus and firewall

Jimmie Martin · Post by **Jimmie Martin** » 11 Dec 2007 5:08 pm

i need a totally free anti-virus and firewall. i had to sell all of my steel equipment the first of the year to pay bills but i still want to go on the forum sometimes.thanks in advance.

Bill Ford · Post by **Bill Ford** » 11 Dec 2007 5:36 pm

Jimmie,
I have been using Avast for a couple years now, no problems, also it updates just about every time I log on.Wiz also has links on his website to a couple of free providers.

BF

http://www.avast.com/eng/programs.html

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 11 Dec 2007 5:47 pm

Jimmie;
I have links on my blog, in the right sidebar, to various freeware anti virus and anti spyware programs. I use and recommend all of the following programs:

AVG Free Anti Virus
Spybot Search and Destroy
Microsoft Windows Defender
Ad-Aware Personal
SpywareBlaster
ZoneAlarm Free Basic Firewall

AVG also has a free anti spyware program, but I haven't tried it yet. It used to be called Ewido.

Andy Sandoval · Post by **Andy Sandoval** » 11 Dec 2007 6:05 pm

I vote for AVG. I replaced Norton with AVG on both of my computers, my sons computer and several others with excellent results

Calvin Walley · Post by **Calvin Walley** » 11 Dec 2007 9:41 pm

Wiz
i just replaced norton with AVG and must say that i like it , it found 22 problems

can you tell me more about what else i might need to download from your site..
i'm one of those that don't understand what most of that stuff is

Andy Sandoval · Post by **Andy Sandoval** » 11 Dec 2007 11:14 pm

Wiz, I've used both "spybot" and "ad-aware" and each found different items on my computer. Do you think it's a little overkill to use both of them and maybe one or the other would suffice?

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 12 Dec 2007 12:17 am

I was asked if using two or more anti-spyware programs is overkill. No, I don't, and for this reason. Most anti-spyware programs, especially the free ones, do not have real time protection running as a process. You install them, update them every week, then manually scan with them for threats, and remove whatever is turned up. If you have two anti spyware programs, chances are good that one of them will be more up-to-date, at any given moment, than the other one. The more up-to-date scanner may find a new threat on your computer that the other program missed. SpywareBlaster doesn't even scan for threats; it inoculates the Registry against them, by setting what's called a Kill-Bit, which prevents items on the definitions list from becoming active on your computer.

The above does not apply to many commercial anti-spyware programs though. This is because most of them do have real time system protection processes and you don't want any conflicts between security programs. The same applies to anti-virus programs. Most of them have real time processes and would clash with each other, if two were running at the same time.

Another thing you only want one of is a software firewall. If you install ZoneAlarm, or Norton Personal Firewall, etc, they will disable the Windows Firewall. The built-in Windows Firewall (Windows XP, Server 2003 and Vista) is lame, but better than nothing at all.

Cal Sharp · Post by **Cal Sharp** » 12 Dec 2007 7:45 am

Linux is free, and has no virus issues. You can install it on a Windoze computer.

Jimmie Martin · Post by **Jimmie Martin** » 12 Dec 2007 4:50 pm

thanks guys i got one for free and its working great. thanks to all of you. your great.

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