I have norton anti virus, firewall etc on my pc, it's out of date in 4 days and i'm not going to renew it, my computer runs so slow with it
on, any one any recommendations for me.
Cheers Davy
Free AVG, go to the avg website and download it, its great!
Ed
How do you connect to the internet at the moment? If its broadband what is the make and model of your router as it may have a built in firewall that
can be enabled which would be better than a software firewall anyway in my opinion.
Then just get avg or avast free for the anti virus.
Cheers
Rich
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Originally posted by RichardK
How do you connect to the internet at the moment? If its broadband what is the make and model of your router as it may have a built in firewall that can be enabled which would be better than a software firewall anyway in my opinion.
Then just get avg or avast free for the anti virus.
Cheers
Rich
Done a bit of a google and orange live box does have a built in firewall but I would drop orange support an email asking if its on by default and if
not, if they have any instructions on turning it on or even better if they can remote in and switch it on for you.
Cheers
when you remove it make sure you read into how to do it properly. It spiders its way right through your system, so just leaving it there won't
help speed it up.
Lots of advice online - I did it on my mates recently with dramatic improvements.
If you bank online with Barclays then you can get a free years subscription to Kaspersky which doesn't hog the system like some earlier versions
of Norton.
Prior to that I was using AVGFree, Zone Alarm and Spybot
[Edited on 15-11-08 by bimbleuk]
For and antivirus and security program Avira takes a bit of beating --- the free version has the same level of antivirus protection as the paid
edition the main downside is that the update servers on he free edition are a bit over loaded hence updates can take a while to download. In any event
worth paying for the latest version of the home premium edition as it has a lot of extra features.
http://www.free-av.com/
If you have Xp or Vista and connect via a router you have enough firewalling unless you use your PC as an internet server. If you still want a
seperate firewall you can download Kerio Person Firewall version v2.15 here http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=keriopf
NB don't download the later versions.
To be even more secure you should also do regular sweeps with Hijackthis
http://www.merijn.org/programs.php
and also it is worth using Adaware.