\when you want to protect your computer with free software, you should not just use one program. I would suggest a combination of anti virus and anti spyware programs.
I vote for Avast, the very well known program. It is very user friendly and rarely ever misses a virus. The only time it might miss a virus or two is when you get an old comp that has sh*t programs like Smiley Central, Cursor Mania, Zwinky, Popular Screen-savers, and MyWay Search-bar.
When compiling your system defenses, make sure they are one's you can interact with & understand.
Avast is free, lightwieght, and moderately easy to use. Other A-V's might be more to your liking however. (Use one A-V only)
Which ever you select, add this to your frontline, realtime counter-measures arsenal:
"Sandboxie"
runs your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer.
Use it for:
Secure Web Browsing: Running your Web browser under the protection of Sandboxie means that all malicious software downloaded by the browser is trapped in the sandbox and can be deleted when closing the sandbox.
Enhanced Privacy: Browsing history, cookies, and cached temporary files collected while Web browsing stay in the sandbox and don't leak into Windows.
Secure E-mail: Viruses and other malicious software that might be hiding in your email can't break out of the sandbox and can't infect your real system.
Not overly difficult to use. Don't presume total impunity: it does have limits: listen to 'Security Now' #174 for more details (http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm)
IMHO, Avast! It's free, doesn't eat up your memory, auto downloads updates and let's you know when it does, scans everything, etc. My IT buds and I have been using it for years. http://www.avast.com/
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\when you want to protect your computer with free software, you should not just use one program. I would suggest a combination of anti virus and anti spyware programs.
Anti virus and firewall pro
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/download_fi...
or
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
in combination with
http://www.pctools.com/firewall/
Threatfire is an anti virus, that can be installed next to any other anti virus program on the same computer
http://www.threatfire.com/
This is a very good program, that completely runs in the background
http://www.comodo.com/boclean/boclean.html
Anti spyware
http://www.spywareterminator.com/
http://en.kioskea.net/telecharger/telecharger-105-...
http://www.download.com/Advanced-System-Protector-...
Installing these programs, will not use any extra RAM or CPU usage.
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I vote for Avast, the very well known program. It is very user friendly and rarely ever misses a virus. The only time it might miss a virus or two is when you get an old comp that has sh*t programs like Smiley Central, Cursor Mania, Zwinky, Popular Screen-savers, and MyWay Search-bar.
When compiling your system defenses, make sure they are one's you can interact with & understand.
Avast is free, lightwieght, and moderately easy to use. Other A-V's might be more to your liking however. (Use one A-V only)
Which ever you select, add this to your frontline, realtime counter-measures arsenal:
"Sandboxie"
runs your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer.
Use it for:
Secure Web Browsing: Running your Web browser under the protection of Sandboxie means that all malicious software downloaded by the browser is trapped in the sandbox and can be deleted when closing the sandbox.
Enhanced Privacy: Browsing history, cookies, and cached temporary files collected while Web browsing stay in the sandbox and don't leak into Windows.
Secure E-mail: Viruses and other malicious software that might be hiding in your email can't break out of the sandbox and can't infect your real system.
Freeware. (http://www.sandboxie.com/)
Not overly difficult to use. Don't presume total impunity: it does have limits: listen to 'Security Now' #174 for more details (http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm)
Freeware.
Not for 64 bit Vista platform.
Recommended by Steve Gibson (Security Now & GRC)
I vote for Avira. Didn't like AVG as it let in a virus that Avira found.
There's dozens here http://www.majorgeeks.com/
IMHO, Avast! It's free, doesn't eat up your memory, auto downloads updates and let's you know when it does, scans everything, etc. My IT buds and I have been using it for years. http://www.avast.com/
Avira is the best of them all.
I like AVG
i like AVG 8.0 and norton they both work well
check it out for yourself. www.virusbtn.com/news/2008/9_02