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madrallysport

posted on 14/11/08 at 08:51 PM Reply With Quote
PC protection, firewall etc

I have norton anti virus, firewall etc on my pc, it's out of date in 4 days and i'm not going to renew it, my computer runs so slow with it on, any one any recommendations for me.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





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eddie99

posted on 14/11/08 at 08:53 PM Reply With Quote
Free AVG, go to the avg website and download it, its great!

Ed

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RichardK

posted on 14/11/08 at 08:55 PM Reply With Quote
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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madrallysport

posted on 14/11/08 at 08:59 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
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




I just use orange broadband, then go online via internet explorer. router is free live box type

[Edited on 14/11/08 by madrallysport]





UNDERSTEER is when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
OVERSTEER is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
HORSEPOWER is how fast you hit the wall.
TORQUE is how far you take the wall with you.

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RichardK

posted on 14/11/08 at 09:50 PM Reply With Quote
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.

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Dangle_kt

posted on 14/11/08 at 11:05 PM Reply With Quote
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.

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bimbleuk

posted on 15/11/08 at 04:22 AM Reply With Quote
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]

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britishtrident

posted on 15/11/08 at 09:09 AM Reply With Quote
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.

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