best free internet security/anti virus?

unitedcraig · December 6th, 2007, 07:19 PM

hi guys, when i brought my new laptop it had norton installed for a trial for 90 days, now this time is up i thought id install the norton form my old pc, but suprise suprise it is not vista compatiable

what is the best free anti virus/internet security software out there. i have heard that AVG is one of the best.

welcome any suggestions or comments?

thanks ppl

craig

alexgeek · December 6th, 2007, 07:34 PM

AVG, yes it is brilliant.

unitedcraig · December 6th, 2007, 07:51 PM

is avg good for both internet security or is it just mainly just anti virus??

thanks again alex

Stuart · December 6th, 2007, 07:57 PM

Use AVIRA. Much better!

Monie · December 6th, 2007, 10:46 PM

You can find many free antivirus out there 3A's (Avira, Avast, Avg) the best one so far in my opinion and some other IT megazine.

For Internet Security, there is no free version, only a trial version.
I am using ZoneAlarm Security Suite (Antivirus + Firewall + Internet Security)

Thay are alse free ZoneAlarm Antivirus and Firewall. You might check that out

c010depunkk · December 7th, 2007, 01:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alexgeek

AVG, yes it is brilliant.

NOT! I had AVG installed. Then, I dumped that, installed Avira and it found 3 viruses. I promptly reinstalled my whole computer....

Monie · December 7th, 2007, 02:04 AM

Do you have the virus definition up to date?
Can we use both at the same time?

unitedcraig · December 7th, 2007, 03:00 AM

I think i will go for the AVG anti virus and the Zone Alarm free firewall, this seems the best choice. I need to get my dad to hurry up and get the new Norton

Monie · December 7th, 2007, 03:05 AM

I once use Norton, but I trowed it away!
Really annoying especially the internet security stuff!

unitedcraig · December 7th, 2007, 03:13 AM

Yeh a lot of people have said that, is it that bad, or has it just got a few annoying things wrong with it?

Monie · December 7th, 2007, 03:35 AM

Some of my experienced friend told me that norton is quiet heavy (in term of your memory RAM resources)! Program/Application like AVG, Avast are quiet lite.

welshstew · December 7th, 2007, 03:44 AM

I use AVG and have had no problems

Monie · December 7th, 2007, 03:48 AM

That's for antivirus!
For Internet Security, you might want to check [This] thread!

welshstew · December 7th, 2007, 04:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monie

That's for antivirus!
For Internet Security, you might want to check [This] thread!

Yes, and ? sorry am I missing something?

The title of the thread is "best free IS and AV"...

Monie · December 7th, 2007, 04:33 AM

I have somewhere in that thread discussing with Stu about Internet Security application

Stuart · December 7th, 2007, 09:16 AM

Stu to the rescue! Yes, Monie is correct. We went deeply into why not to use certain software...

Monie · December 7th, 2007, 07:20 PM

Is there any free IS by the way? I am not talking about trial version, just a FLAT free

JacobHaug · December 8th, 2007, 12:09 AM

Alright, free protection...sure there is such a thing.

AVG Free - Is a great FREE antivirus application, I like it a lot.
Zonealarm - Zonealarm offers a free triple layer firewall, if you can find the link to it on their website...haha.

unitedcraig · December 8th, 2007, 06:40 AM

I have got what Jacob said, AVG is a great anti virus, and zone alarm seems to be a good firewall

Does anyone recon that i should get the AVG spyware thing, or is that a waste of time??

Monie · December 9th, 2007, 07:53 PM

For spyware, you could use Spybot Search and Destroy, it's free by the way, and yet a power full tool too...