Virus Protection

by **Ship called Dignity** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:03 am

So what do you all use?

No rude comments please! :wink:

by **Jonathan** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:32 am

AVG Free from Grisoft - no need to look anywhere else really for AV protection. Free to download - Free updates - only difference between it and the PAY for AV is the restriction on some of it's scheduling tasks.

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

Now includes firewall too.

by **Malky** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:57 am

I use NOD32 from Eset. Not free, but well worth the small expense.

It holds more Virus Bulletin 100% Awards than any other anti-virus product available, consistently detecting all known viruses "in the wild" without false positives.

Malky

by **John S** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:36 am

Antivir 6
www.free-av.com

Very straight forward, with a win98 download. Used AVG before but found it awful demanding on my win98 sock7 system.

by **Frosty** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 6:33 pm

Microsoft AntiSpyware Downloaded from thier Web site.
Its Free and easy to download (on Broadband).
Read in a Computer Magazine that it was rated better than some of the one which you can buy in the shops
Regards
Frosty

by **Jonathan** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 6:40 pm

Microsoft Anti-Spyware Beta - just to be clear is NOT an anti-virus program - it will NOT provide any protection against virus attack.

It is however a valuable program to have on your machine.

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

by **Frosty** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 6:46 pm

Jonathan
I'm still learning all about these things.
Thank you for your advise , could you reccommend (or anyone else) what I need?
regards
Frosty

by **Malky** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 6:58 pm

Frosty, go with what Jonathon said above - AVG anti-virus.

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

It's free for personal use

Spyware and malware are a bit of a problem especially for those who have broadband and an always on connection. Microsoft Anti-Spyware seems to be fairly good at removing that so continue to use it.

Malky