Noddy without Bigears Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 Zone Alarm Pro is a Firewall, Anti Virus & Anti Spyware all in one package and a good one at that. Zone Alarm is only the firewall which is free. AVG absolute mint Anti-virus software, highly recommended to one & all and it's FREE Used all of the above but AVG is by far the best and all for the princely sum of nought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 The firewall built into XP since SP1 is a cut down version of Zone alarm. The idea in itself is sound, and for most people its a hell of a lot better than nothing at all. It is software though, fallible and inherently a bad solution. A cheap £20 router with NAT enabled and all incoming ports blocked is a much better way to solve the problem. It isn't intrusive, doesn't wrap dozens of hooks into your operating system which add hundreds of thousands of lines of code to what is an already over complex system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyb Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 Got myself a pix 501 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 Probably a little overkill for the average home user there mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyb Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 Probably a little overkill for the average home user there mate I'm no average home user Any way it had been under my desk at work with a 515E, and a CVPN3005 for about a year lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 I used to have a full 42u rack which was pretty stuffed with kit, extreme summit 48 switch, couple of nokia ip330's (few years ago now), 2 sunfire 280r's and some other toys. Then I decided to stop being a total geek, moved house and ditched most of it. Was a very noisy landing in that place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevo2006 Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 Good thing about being an I.T System support analyst is i get every piece of software for absolultly ziltch Check out McAffe Virus scanner, i use the Enterprise 8.0 edition and have never looked back to crappy "Norton" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- goto agree with you mate mcafee is best!!!!!! and i also got for free B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyb Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 We use McAffe also... The Trend Micro products are pretty good to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darebear Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 anyone ever feel like they are trying to read chinese? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 Yep, when I am trying to decipher the hieroglyphics on the strange washing device with a window in it that mrs pin uses. What the hell language is that in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyb Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 8u7 17'z 50 345y 70 uND3r574ND 1Z'n7 17 ? B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 anyone ever feel like they are trying to read chinese? I was lost 1/2 way through page 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peck Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 Good thing about being an I.T System support analyst is i get every piece of software for absolultly ziltch Check out McAffe Virus scanner, i use the Enterprise 8.0 edition and have never looked back to crappy "Norton" Seeing as its you, i wish u had posted this before u purchased it as i could have got it for free for you! hi dazzyboi, seeing as its me and my norton is due for renewalis their any chance of letting me have a free copy B) . if you dont ask you dont get as my dad used to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 It would need to be a retail boxed copy or one with a propper paid for licence - they are wise to the ways of the wiley pirate these days and you will end up with no updates, which isn't much use And why not ask, like my dad always said "shy bairns get nowt" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiercel Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 hi dazzyboi, seeing as its me and my norton is due for renewalis their any chance of letting me have a free copy B) . if you dont ask you dont get as my dad used to say. Why would you want that rubbish? Even for free!! When there are far better antivirus out there for nowt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 This is all you need... http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1 and this...... http://www.simtel.net/product.download.mir...ID%5Dsimtel.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted January 20, 2007 Report Share Posted January 20, 2007 One of my more clever brothers, who 'tends my PC needs says: "use cheap antivirus for cheap PC's that aren't very powerfull, or have budget operating systems. So it doesn't use too much of the modest resources. My PC is 3.20 GHz - 960 MB of RAM ('cos it's shared graphics or somat) and Pentium 4 HT. Being a fairly powerfull one, Norton Internet Security uses only a moderate amount of its resources/CPU. It's about time I started paying for it too - so the trial version that came with this new PC will get paid for this time. I and every one I know who runs/ran key-gened versions get updates ok, I had one licensed to 2012 once - and problems after a few months. Two of those now run paid for versions - with no problems. If I get problems with a fully paid for one I will dump it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jonrms Posted January 20, 2007 Report Share Posted January 20, 2007 ok I am totally lost.. pin your a star... but i dont know why.. dave , cranfield, we love you.. heck what i am typing above makes as much sense as the whole thread...... ahhhhhhhhhhh i am still battling with norton.... I think i am going to give up .. un install the lot!!!!! and start from scratch.. and complain to norton.. although i wont get anywhere i know. oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antuk99 Posted December 8, 2007 Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 Can i bump this thread as my norton runs out in a few days is AVG the way on a personel computer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Cornholio Posted December 8, 2007 Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 I use AVG 7.5. It's free and I have no complaints at all. Norton Internet security or Norton 360 are both great on a high end PC IMHO. In the pre 1500Mhz processor days, if you had less than 512MB RAM Norton did slow it all down way too much. I have a 2200 (3600+) processor & 2 GBs RAM. I can run Norton no sweat... But why pay for it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vole Posted December 8, 2007 Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 AVG 6 and Zonealarm for me too. I do pay for my Spysweeper though.have found it shifted bugs and Bugbear virus that free ones could not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ME Posted December 8, 2007 Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 A really good anti virus software product is AVAST Home Edition, and it's free. www.avast.com I use it and nothing gets through..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salisburykeeper Posted December 8, 2007 Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 norton antivirus is probably the biggest virus you will ever have on your machine!, i would reccommend fully removing it from your system and just use windows firewall which will be automatically there waiting to see the back of norton! then you can download 2 programs for free which are adaware and spybot , these can just be run once a week or once a fortnight to remove any that got through firewall but generally as long as you dont download any exe files that you are unsure of or dont browse to much porn you wont have a problem with viruses , hope this helps, ive not had a problem for over 2 years using this system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myuserid Posted December 8, 2007 Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 The only way you are going to get a virus is by surfing dodgy sites or opening .exe files as salisburykeeper said, so DONT DO IT! No need for any antivirus software then, or if you do want to serf dodgy sites you can always get an apple Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted December 8, 2007 Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 I used the AVG free version for a few years and it is excellent, but I have just moved up to the "paid for" version, which includes a Firewall, Anti Spyware, Anti Spam and a few other refinements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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