My free trial for Norton is running out , What now ?

[WorldNumberOne]

my new computer came with 90 days of free norton virus protection .

its about to run out .

is their anything out there for free that would protect me ?

i already downloaded spybot .

i am an AOL user and have all of whatever protection they offer.

what should i do ?

thanks

 

[TTinCO]

http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=856937

Well worth $68....Firewall, AntiVirus, AntiSpam and parental controls to keep your kids off of Smutland.com. Each feature can be turned on or off, and if you are somewhat familiar with firewalls, you can manually configure it also.

 

[WorldNumberOne]

so go ahead and buy something .. dont mess around with trying to find something free .

believe me, i want to protect my investment , so i am fine with paying for soemthing worthwhile.

thanks .

 

[TTinCO]

Yeah, for under $6 a month-it's well, well worth not having to worry about.

One bad virus can lead to a machine rebuild (even if it is removed). Avoiding that pain in the ass alone justifies the expense.

 

[WorldNumberOne]

this will need be to updated every year at another cost , right ?

 

[TTinCO]

Yeah, you will have to renew it each year-But I don't think it's at the full price (I want to say about 1/2)

 

[TowtheLine]

I'm not on AOL and I DO use tons of protection (always remember that anytime you interface with another computer you're interfacing with every computer that that computer interfaced with before - sound familiar) but for a free solution your AOL antivirus should work pretty well. It should handle all virus (McAfee), firewall, spam, and parental control. Spyware?

I'm sure someone at the mighty AOL can give you a better comparison.

 

[TTinCO]

I'm not familiar with what AOL offers-personally, I think paying for AOL is a complete waste of money, but I know that's what a lot of people started with and change is always feared.

At the least, I would assume that the virus scan all your email.

 

[1cheater]

PC-CILLIN is also good...

 

[TTinCO]

http://www.trendmicro.com/en/products/desktop/pc-cillin/evaluate/overview.htm

Wow!! The entire Trend suite is only $50. Can't go wrong there!

 

[hellah10]

never used anti-virus...never will....for my home PC that is

these software firewalls are a waste of time too

 

[TowtheLine]

never used anti-virus...never will....for my home PC that is

these software firewalls are a waste of time too

You're not practicing safe interfacing my friend :sad3:

I guess if you don't engage in unsafe practices like hanging out in cracker sites (oh the shame) you may be OK.

Remember, always wear protection.

 

[JinnRikki]

AVG is very good...and it's free! http://www.grisoft.com/doc/1

 

[druidwarrior]

Personally Im using Vexira anti virus program. Originally program by a group of l33t german programmer call kaspersky lab. Provide 24hr round the clock auto-protect and 24/7 live virus update.

One of the Most coolest feature I really like about this software is.. it will NEVER allow you to execute a .exe program that is infected. NEVER! norton and pc cilin cannot prevent you from executing an infected program.. they only catch it when you do a manual scan. Vexira is different, everytime you try to execute a .exe, they will scan BEFORE allowing window to execute it.

Now that is class!

 

[1cheater]

"everytime you try to execute a .exe, they will scan BEFORE allowing window to execute it.'


That's pretty kewl!

 

[wsox]

AVG is very good...and it's free! http://www.grisoft.com/doc/1

agreed. this program is just as effective for the average user (ie all of us) as any norton or pccillian.