I have been a Norton fanboy for quite a while now. It has been a good program and has saved my butt several times. The only thing I dislike about it is that you have to pay yearly to update your protection. The price was too high. I have tried another program and I am a convert. This program is free and so are the updates. I stupidly installed an ActiveX plugin tonight that was..... a trojan horse. Instantly, a popup came up and said that my computer was infected. I ran the Virus software, which found 8 trojan horses on my pc, and it got rid of every one of them. All 8 were from the ActiveX plugin that I installed (damn warez :P )
I confirmed the removal by going to Symantec's site and using their free online virus scanner. No bugs detected. If you would like to try out this software, you can find it at http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

Some of you may have heard of it. AVG Antivirus. If you are tired of paying for your subscriptions, and software, I suggest you give this a try.

I'm using it on my old computer, since I didn't feel like paying for a subscription on a computer I only use occaisionally. I just renewed my Norton this week on my new computer.

I would be very interested to know how you get on with the AVG Free software. I find it easy to use, but was too shy to try it on my main rig. :oops:

I may have to use it when mine run out.Things I plan do to this year. I don't think going to happen .My car need work on and need crown for tooth. :evil:

I have used it before. It worked well. I found it about a year ago at a company I worked for. I got it at home and started putting it on all PC's that I rebuild for other people. I have seen it fail to remove a virus before but the Quaranteen was good. I use the free program that comes with RoadRunner on my main / gaming box and Norton on the server. When it expires, I'm going to AVG on everything because I too am tired of paying for Norton each year.

Ive been using avg for ages now i have found it faster and easier to yse than norton or panda AVG7 is the latest, i have also found the norton firewall is a bit tempramental so i have swapped to another free one Sygate personel firewall its free updates are rare but its a good prog.

I also use AVG it works good updates itself and I have had no problems.

I also use this online scan too from time to time just to make sure,if you use this click on the last box the one that says free scan it's blue.
Just follow the instructions.

http://www.virusportal.com/com/webmasters/

Hotts :razz: :razz: :razz:

In most of the time I've had a PC, I've never had an antivirus program installed. I've always been careful about what I've downloaded and haven't had any virus problems until recently... I started like many others to get virus infections through some of the many holes in Windows 98, Internet Explorer & Outlook. *Grrrrrrrrrr* :evil:

So I started using the online virus scanner on http://www.trendmicro.com/ , until a good friend of mine told me about the free AVG antivirus program from Grisoft.

I have not had any virus problems at all since I've installed AVG and started using Mozilla Firefox & Mozilla Thunderbird instead of Internet Explorer & Outlook. :D

Ya, I'm useing Panda's on-line scanner at...
http://tinyurl.com/455j

I use AVG 7 too : fine and pretty secure !

I regulary use http://www.secuser.com on-line scanner and... it rolls !!!

:wink:

Yup use avg and sygate for firewall avg updates way more then norton but as was said by The_one sygate updates not so often saying that i still get plenty of warnings that an attemp has been made but blocked by sygate and it has built in tracking if you want to know who it was. The other nice thing is they take up less resources then norton too.
P.S there freee too lol
Dark :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

I would ditch norton i liked them used them for few yrs but the last time i installed had a little problem had to reinstall, it scrapped my system only lucky thing was i had there system works not just virus i could get puter booted and that was one of the few programmes that worked it got the system back to 90% but couldnt reinstall virus module without going into registry or doing full reinstall of windows neither of which i wanted to do. I found avg and used that even with the puter at 90% it ran better then using norton at 100% since then i also moved to sygate for the firewall which seams to work great. There what i,m using on my new rig now and i know The_one also uses them on his new rig and not heard him complain about them i have non either.
Also i dont like there new liscence scheme and never liked there pay for new updates.
Dark :shock: :shock: :roll: :roll: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

I don't know if this still works or not, but you used to be able to go in your bio's and set the date ahead, lets say 5 years. Down load and install nortons 14 day free trial package. Go back into the bio's and reset to the correct year and have a full working trial package set to expire 5 years and 14 days later.

Heres some good "FREE" anti virus software:
Here is every piece of software you will ever need to protect your PC. Choose one firewall and one antivirus program and any amount of Privacy or Spyware software. Best of all, its all Free!

Free Antivirus-
AVG Free Edition http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/
or
Avast Home Edition http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

Free Firewall-
Sygate Personal Firewall http://soho.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
or
Kerio Personal Firewall http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
or
Zone Alarm http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp?lid=zadb_zadown

Free Spyware Scanner-
Spybot- Search And Destroy http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html
and
Ad-aware http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/

Free Spyware Prevention
Spyware Blaster http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
and
Spyware Guard http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html
and
IE Spyad http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0%2Cfid%2C23332%2CRSS%2CRSS%2C00.asp

Free Privacy Protectors-
MRU Blaster http://www.mrublaster.com/mrublaster.html
and
Eraser http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/
and
IE Privacy Keeper http://www.unhsolutions.com/IEPK/index.shtml


Trojan Prevention
a2 (Not brilliant, but improving) http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
and
Swat It (Very good reviews) http://www.swatit.org/


Experience the value of Webroot products for yourself with free trials that, for a limited time, offer all the benefits of the fully functioning software. Wonder if the bio's changing would work with these? Of course most can be picked up cracked at the p2p sites.
Window Washer V5.5 Size: 1.95 MB
Spy Sweeper V3.5 Size: 3.70 MB
Accelerate V4.0 Size: 1.03 MB
My Firewall Plus V5.0 Size: 5.86 MB
My Personal Favorites V4.0 Size: 1.02 MB
Pop Up Washer V2.4 Size: 1.96 MB
Spam Shredder V1.9 Size: 5.2 MB
MacWasher Classic V2.1.2 Size: 1.32 MB
MacWasher X V1.1 Size: 4.47 MB
http://www.webroot.com/

More tools :wink:
The CoolWebSearch Chronicles detail the variants of the browser hijacker known as CoolWebSearch (CWS). CoolWebSearch is known to be one of the most difficult spyware infections to detect and remove. http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Popup-Ad-Spyware-Blockers/CWShredder.shtml

This place is great. Tools up the kazoo. Great for downloads and there is a huge list of "SCUMWARE" products pretending to be anti-trojan/virus/spyware but actually som of the nastiest. Check it before installing any non-mainstream protection programs.
http://barneysplace.isecurity.org.uk/index-2.html

Enjoy, Skank 8)

Dang Skank where u get this stuff from. Thank you

Ditto on the thanks. I already use several of the tools you listed, but I will fuel my paranoia by installing a few others. A firewall program called 'Black Ice' works well for me (not free, but someone gave me a copy).

As far as the Norton thing goes, what I do is uninstall it about the time that the subscription runs out, re-install it and you get another years worth of updates. Another option would be to go on ebay (or the like) and purchase the last (not latest) version. I ended up purchasing a copy of Norton Systemworks (a $100 program) for about $8.

All are welcome. So many people have helped me with 'puter stuff throughout the years, if I find an opportunity to pay ahead, I'm more than happy to.

Ciao, Skank 8)