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Old 06-14-2005, 06:23 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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IÂ’ve been trying to decide what antivirus to use for a while but IÂ’ve found it very hard to get any definitive answers apart from every company insisting theirs is the best. I would not call myself an expert but I have been using computers extensively for several years and shouldnÂ’t have many problems working with one of the more complicated antivirus programs. IÂ’m a home user, single machine, used heavily. DonÂ’t want to pay a huge amount. So the basic question is, does anyone have any advice about what to get?

On similar lines, is the smart move to get a separate firewall or a combined protection suite? And again any advice on which one to go for?

All help appreciated

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Old 06-14-2005, 06:56 PM   #2 (permalink)
 
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avg from www.grisoft.com (free)
get adaware personal (free) from www.lavasoft.com
and spybot search and destroy (free) from www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
if you have broadband then zonealarm from www.zonelabs.com
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