bikerdude on 27/7/2009 at 17:34
Quote Posted by nickie
True biker. But to be honest, most days I'm scrabbling around to find a spare 7p let alone a spare £7.00 :) Maybe soon.
Ouchie, well if I see it going cheaper anywhere I`ll drop you a Pm. :(
fett on 28/7/2009 at 05:27
Yeah - my last experience with Norton was so miserable I vowed never to use them again. Anything that chomps up that much memory and needs to display 4 systray icons is bloated IMO. I used avast for a few years with no problems at all until this iexplore.exe thing. I'm trying AVG right now - you say it's not that good? Also, I don't have the cash to drop for Norton - what's the best freeware that's available?
nickie on 28/7/2009 at 06:59
According to that review, Norton's is really very good these days and doesn't use up so much space.
I was using AVG but have now switched to Avast. :)
Of the (
http://antivirus.about.com/od/antivirussoftwarereviews/a/freeav.htm) free versions, the other one that seems to be pretty good is AntiVir Personal Edition. There's nothing wrong with any of them but they aren't as good as the Professional versions and so I have other stuff as well. I use Zone Alarm firewall, Spybot SD Resident and Spywareguard plus a hosts file. These are all standard applications and are all free. There are other free firewalls around but I'm used to Zone Alarm now.
jay pettitt on 28/7/2009 at 07:25
Not being able to get to your BIOS is a clever trick.
(also, ubuntu. *cough* none of this silly nonsense *cough*)
kidmystik101 on 28/7/2009 at 09:06
Quote Posted by Bikerdude
Fett, I seriously suggest you go buy and install
"Kaspersky internet security 2009" or "Norton internet security 2009" F-Secure Internet Security 2009
Fixed.
bikerdude on 28/7/2009 at 15:20
Quote Posted by fett
Also, I don't have the cash to drop for Norton - what's the best freeware that's available?
AVG is the only free one i can think off, but latley its been getting as bad as mcafee for its false positives..
RocketMan on 28/7/2009 at 16:06
Quote Posted by Bjossi
Firewalls don't turn themselves off. If you didn't do it, then such a warning should make the malware quite obvious.
True but there is a registry key that viruses can infect/change. I don't remember the key exactly but it's something like WindowsFirewallOff or something and it takes a boolean 0 or 1. The virus can change this and boom...no more firewall. Happened to me when I got w32.virut.cf I find it amusing that there's a big happy OFF button for something like windows firewall that a virus can easily get access to. Maybe I'm over simplifying it though.
Melan on 28/7/2009 at 18:44
Thanks for the info!
