Is there any good, free antivirus/firewall stuff out there?

[kozak6]

Norton is pissing me off with its insistence on reminding me every couple of hours to update my subscription.

Is there any good and free antivirus/firewall stuff out there?

[tChr]

Norton is pissing me off with its insistence on reminding me every couple of hours to update my subscription.

Is there any good and free antivirus/firewall stuff out there?

Good, sure. Free, sure. Both.. never seen it

Good free firewall for personal use: I use Sygate firewall. Now bought by.. Symantech (?) but I think the previous version or last one is still free. If you cant find it (search for "sygate personal firewall") let me know. I have the free version somewhere.

[tZork]

http://www.avast.com/

its free as in free beer. for home use.

look for avast home edition. a simple registartion in needed, you get the licence key in yer mailbox.

[a thing]

iptables

[Charliebrownau]

I recommend using the following programs to prevent bad things to infect windows based OS's

Nlite - Strip out the crap , remake youre own custom windows iso

XPY - Removes a lot of unwanted stuff to a existing copy of Windows


Use Firefox instead of IE - http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/b ... le_firefox

Use Thunderbird instead of Outlook/Outlook Express -
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/e ... hunderbird

Use Media Player Classic instead of MS WMP & Powerdvd -
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Med ... lassic.htm

Use Miranda IM instead of MSN Messager & Yahoo Messager -
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/c ... le_miranda

Use Abiword or Openoffice instead of MS Office
http://portableapps.com/apps/office/wor ... le_abiword
http://portableapps.com/apps/office/sui ... openoffice

Use Netmeter instead of DU Meter -
http://readerror.gmxhome.de/


For Antispyware and Antimalware use :
Adware SE Personal - http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/
Hijhackthis - http://www.merijn.org/downloads.html

For Free antivirus use:
http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/ ... le_clamwin
or
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

For Pay Antivirus use:
Kaspersky Anti-Virus - http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Ka ... 08918303/2


* Never install toolbars
* I recommend never downloading keygens or cracks from http sites
* I recommend sending and reciving plain text emails only

[esteel]

a thing gave a hint at it.. http://www.debian.org is very free and also very free of viruses That is if you want your computer and software to respect your freedom, its not really a 1for1 replacement for windows: http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm

Other then this i used this virus scanner as long as i used windows at home: http://www.free-av.com/
I also had Zonealarm as a firewall for a short time.. http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/c ... ticcomp_za

[C.Brutail]

I've been waiting for the first linux user's comment

[esteel]

At least i was not the first, also gave other (more thread like) tips and did not tell him to switch right now

[kozak6]

Well, I'd like to switch and all, but then none of my other games or programs would work. Plus, honestly, I would never be able to figure it out. Even a lot of the Windows stuff is beyond my grasp.

And then I still have to share the damn thing with the rest of my family.

Thanks for the help, though. I do appreciate it.

[Ed]

I don't have any anti-virus or firewall software running at all. I don't care because I'm behind a hardware firewall and all of the ports are stealthed so no-one can even see my existence unless they hack the firewall (by brute forcing the password).

Under Windows I might run Stinger periodically but have never found anything with it. The main anti-virus thing in the system is me. Other than that, I use Firefox, Thunderbird, OOo etc.

I wouldn't suggest Debian as a Linux distro for beginners. It's not well suited for desktop use. I wouldn't suggest Ubuntu either, I know of people who've had lots of trouble with it, it has ruined the point of repositories, it only comes with Gnome (try Kubuntu instead if you must) and it's brown .

I run Mandriva but am considering a move to SuSE, that's the distro I would recommend at the moment.