Internet anti-virus help?

**ratusratus** · 21st January 2008, 10:41

can anyone help with antivirus ???
Are there any decent free ones ???

**Drew** · 21st January 2008, 10:43

Originally Posted by ratusratus

can anyone help with antivirus ???
Are there any decent free ones ???

Avast antivirus. Google that. I came home and my Dad had put it on my PC. Self updating and that kinda jazz. Not sure how good it is, but the price was right, nothin.

**Ixion** · 21st January 2008, 10:47

Avast is good.

**James Deuce** · 21st January 2008, 10:55

I third Avast.

**Maffoo** · 21st January 2008, 13:36

hijackthis

you need some brains to work it but its brilliant

**jim.cox** · 21st January 2008, 13:53

There is a free version of AVG available at www.grisoft.cz

**quallman1234** · 21st January 2008, 15:37

Avast or AVG

**Bren** · 21st January 2008, 15:38

one solution on Viruses is to run a system where that is not generally targeted by viruses....Run Linux and you will never go back to windoze!

**James Deuce** · 21st January 2008, 15:45

Err, rubbish. Run Linux and you'll run into a FFS paradox at some point and install XP64. Microfloppy's finest O/S to date. At least you won't have to stuff about ceaselessly with NDIS wrappers if you're stupid enough to expect wireless networking to work in Ubuntu as advertised.

There are three ways to experience a virus.

1. Install software a trusted mate gives you on an unmarked cd/dvd
2. Visit Porn sites
3. Open unsolicited email

Macs get viruses. Different linux kernels have viruses specifically targeting things like firewalls and reverse proxy servers. The "viruses are only for Microsoft OSes" is just rubbish. Watch a Mac user implode when they do get a virus. They'll just scream, "Pah" and keep right on forwarding that virus until their box fails and then go, "But Macs don't get viruses" to the less than happy IT crowd who have to put up with his jeering anti-PC tirades all day and are now expected to resurrect work he hasn't backed up for several years.

**DEATH_INC.** · 23rd January 2008, 04:41

Originally Posted by jim.cox

There is a free version of AVG available at www.grisoft.cz

I use avg, good setup.

**spookytooth** · 23rd January 2008, 05:39

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...tilities.htm#1
plenty of freebies here antiviruse included

**TimeOut** · 23rd January 2008, 06:13

Originally Posted by quallman1234

Avast or AVG

Avast is best according to my son who's in IT

**NighthawkNZ:Me** · 23rd January 2008, 06:23

Originally Posted by South3rn Rid3r

one solution on Viruses is to run a system where that is not generally targeted by viruses....Run Linux and you will never go back to windoze!

There are viruses writen for Linux (and they are a lot harder to detect and clean from a unix or linux system....so don't be fooled by that... if there wasn't there wouldn't be AV's for Linux???) and for those Mac users out there, there are viruses for MacOS as well ,

However good free ones for Windows is AVast, AVG, AntiVir Personal Edition, ClamWin Antivirus

**Beemer** · 23rd January 2008, 09:25

I used to use AVG but couldn't find the free version of it last time I looked, so I have gone with Avast. The only problem I've had so far is that last week when it updated (it updates every day) it locked me out of the net! I rang my ISP's helpdesk and they checked and found I could connect to the net okay but nothing would download. They told me to uninstall it and then download it again, which I did, and have had no problems since then. It seems to work pretty well, I don't get a pile of spam.