The Kintyre Forum

So what do you all use?

No rude comments please!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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