Maq Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Need a free firewalls, anti-virus and spyware. Any recommendations? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zq29 Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 I used to use AVG back when I used Windows, not sure if it's still kicking around though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerRobot Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Yeah, it is. I had a few problems with it slowing down my computer when i last used it though. I switched to Avira which seemed ok though i'm now using McAfee since my university provides it for free. As for spyware, i normally use spybot and ad aware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 I'll have to say that common sense is the best thing against spyware and viruses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 I'll have to say that common sense is the best thing against spyware and viruses. Agreed, for the most part, but some of use like to download stuff People can be misleading and malicious. AVG is pretty good, I think avast is free too. I hear one of the best windows clients now is nod32. Not free but they say is has a very light footprint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted December 10, 2008 Author Share Posted December 10, 2008 I used to use AVG back when I used Windows, not sure if it's still kicking around though... I have had the same suggestion from some of my friends, it has a good reputation. Thanks. I'll have to say that common sense is the best thing against spyware and viruses. As do I. But, the problem is my friend, who just bought a new laptop, does not have any common sense. AVG is pretty good, I think avast is free too. I hear one of the best windows clients now is nod32. Not free but they say is has a very light footprint. I've heard of avast but nothing about it. I never heard of nod32, too bad he wants something free. I'll check it out anyway, thanks! One more question. I'm a linux user, although I have a PC with XP, anyway... is Vista's built in firewall any good? I think it's called Defender. if I'm not mistaken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerRobot Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 One more question. I'm a linux user, although I have a PC with XP, anyway... is Vista's built in firewall any good? I think it's called Defender. if I'm not mistaken. Defender is the spyware program. No idea whether or not it's any good though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 I used to to use Avast. Worked good, and warnings accompanied with siren sounds did great work of scaring girls that were using my PC (One of them still clicked on 'Ignore' apparently... duh...) Now I have a company-paid NOD license. Not bad as well. It is said however to interfere with WampServer on some PCs. One should be disabled when other is installed or something... Didn't have this problem here. Its kernel process is taking 40MB of RAM here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted December 10, 2008 Author Share Posted December 10, 2008 Thanks for the info! I'll post again when my friend manages to still get malware on his computer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 I tried all the good free ones lately and here is my take: AVG - bloated, scans at the worst times, fails to update A LOT, does catch a lot of stuff Avira - decent, but doesn't catch drive-by stuff on websites. Also will annoy the crap out of you for a few weeks with daily "ads" for the premium version. They eventually stop though. Avast - no real complaints thus far. Seems to scan at reasonable times and has a lot of options. I personally think ESET NOD32 is the best, but again, not free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 ESET NOD32 is the only one I've been able to run without having any significant impact on my computer's performance. Some programs even made my computer unusable until I removed them again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted December 10, 2008 Author Share Posted December 10, 2008 ESET NOD32 is the only one I've been able to run without having any significant impact on my computer's performance. Some programs even made my computer unusable until I removed them again. I don't think he's willing to pay. I'm going to go with Avast because it has had the most positive comments. If Avast doesn't work out for some reason I'll check out ESET NOD32. Thanks again all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkfreaks Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Eset Nod32 security suite is awesome it doesnt slow down computer performance at all runs silently in the bckground and does a good job detecting virus's and keeping them at bay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waynewex Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 MalwareBytes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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