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JansenClone
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Hi everyone,

I've give my old pc to my new father in law is it's faster and more modern than the machine they're using at the moment. For reasons I forget my pc has Norton for my anti virus / firewall type needs. I was wondering if some kind soul could suggest the best free internet safely applications out there so I could collect them together for them to install.

Thanking muchly in advance

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Seek a little through the General Chat archive, you´ll find loads of threads that reply..
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ZoneLab is quite good

But there be many....wait around, grab a few ;D
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My system works flawless with...

1. Lavasoft AdAware
2. AVG Antivirus
3. ToniArts EasyCleaner

And ONLY those...

Oh, and Firefox, although it tends to freeze a LOT the last couple of weeks... :urff:

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ZoneAlarm for firewall.
AVG for anti-virus.
Spybot Search & Destroy, Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Personal and Javacools Spyware Blaster as anti-spyware/adware.
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Nic
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Izzy HaveMercy wrote:My system works flawless with...

1. Lavasoft AdAware
2. AVG Antivirus
3. ToniArts EasyCleaner

And ONLY those...

Oh, and Firefox, although it tends to freeze a LOT the last couple of weeks... :urff:

IZ.
Heard that the AVG is rather good.

Myself I use Norton because Symantec is my employer :innocent:
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Nic wrote:
Izzy HaveMercy wrote:My system works flawless with...

1. Lavasoft AdAware
2. AVG Antivirus
3. ToniArts EasyCleaner

And ONLY those...

Oh, and Firefox, although it tends to freeze a LOT the last couple of weeks... :urff:

IZ.
Heard that the AVG is rather good.

Myself I use Norton because Symantec is my employer :innocent:
And do you write viruses for them? :innocent:

Me, I use a standard AVG/ZoneLabs/AdAware setup. I'm tempted to use a live Linux for all browsing needs, shut down the network on my Windows installation, and not even bother with a lot of that malarkey - PuppyLinux quite tickles my fancy (cos I like dogs), if I can get it to play nicely with the rest of my kit.
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Thank you all muchly!

I have a useful little collection safely downloaded! :)
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Nic
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mh wrote:
Nic wrote:
Izzy HaveMercy wrote:My system works flawless with...

1. Lavasoft AdAware
2. AVG Antivirus
3. ToniArts EasyCleaner

And ONLY those...

Oh, and Firefox, although it tends to freeze a LOT the last couple of weeks... :urff:

IZ.
Heard that the AVG is rather good.

Myself I use Norton because Symantec is my employer :innocent:
And do you write viruses for them? :innocent:
Aah.. well... :wink:
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