PC Security other than Norton?

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My PC went tits up about Three days ago :evil: , I've just had everything set up again except Norton, I remember a tread a wee while ago saying it was a bit pish and slowed everything down, now's my chance to try something else, any suggestions, links ect would be very welcome.

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My Norton subscription expired a few weeks ago. I dug back to an old thread here on HL and a few people had recommended AVG as much lighter on system resources, and free.

I uninstalled Norton, installed AVG and have had no problems since - plus it's cleared a fair amount of hard disk space (Norton was around 1.3 GB, which is pretty significant on a 20 GB laptop). AVG seems like a nice wee program - runs nicely in the background, runs a daily system scan etc.
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i use avast antivirus...total free...open scan
Ad-aware anti-spy...total free
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Here at Casa da Rancho Relaxo I'm using Zone Alarm Pro Security Suite ( Anti hacking and Anti Virus ) AVG (Free Edition) and Adware Pro ( Anti Spyware)

All free off the net ( dishonestly of course) and so far no problems to speak of.

Avoid Norton, Mcafee and anything Microsoft recommends - they just pass all your info onto the NSA ( which they admitted too with Vista)

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Antivirus : AVG
Firewall : Kerio
Anti-spyware : Ad-Aware SE
And of course Firefox

All free and dead easy to use. f**k Norton and all Microsoft-recommended products. :von:
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I'd say to use the free ZoneAlarm firewall and Firefox with it's AdBlock plugin.

Beyond that I'd just say to use separate firewall and anti-virus software, rather than one thing that does everything. To that end try and get an anti-virus that just that and as little else as possible.

A decent firewall, anti-virus and ad-blocking combination will see you well.
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Also: SpywareBlaster and SpywareGuard are useful. A number of similar programs to clean the registry are recommended, but you need to know what you're doing.. oh, wait, sorry Scotty, forgot you're our tech support guy. :innocent: :lol:

Nah, seriously, go with what everyone's said. AVG, Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D, ZoneAlarm, AdBlock FireFox plugin, SpywareGuard, SpywareBlaster, etc.
All free, all good.
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Well, g… a M… :innocent:

Apart from that, AVG and ZoneAlarm always did the job for me.
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Downloaded a 30 free trial of AVG, I'll see how I get on, cheers all :notworthy: 8) .

Now...........de-rail as you see fit :lol:
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scotty wrote:Downloaded a 30 free trial of AVG, I'll see how I get on, cheers all :notworthy: 8) .

Now...........de-rail as you see fit :lol:
There's a free version too! You need to look through the site though, they always manage to hide those, don't they :lol:
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AVG is the best
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Nope, that's why *I* did. ;D
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AVG Anti-Virus Free
Comodo Firewall (the best free one)
Spyware Blaster
Adaware SE Personal
Spybot - S&D
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Firefox 2.0.0.4 w/ Adblock and the Filterset G list

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[Work mode]
Now people, there is nothing wrong with Norton.
It's the worlds largest antivirus company and there's a reason for that.
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Nic wrote:[Work mode]
Now people, there is nothing wrong with Norton.
It's the worlds largest antivirus company and there's a reason for that.
[/Work mode]

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Company boy! :lol:
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I don't like that overloaded norton stuff - other tools do the same job without taking as much cpu usage as norton. On the other hand, that freeware alternatives are - hard to believe - free of charge :lol:

btw:

I prefer a mix of AVG and Zonealarm, browsing with Mozilla (with at least Adblock Pro and Flashblock plug-ins).

More security wanted?

In the rough, I startet to scan my system regulary with ad-aware against spy- and adware, but now I prefer "Spybot - Search & Destroy".
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