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andrew kelfo | 21:25 Fri 28th Jan 2005 | Technology
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Help, As  novice internet user could someone explain anti virus software and recommend what I ned to install.  I have heard of Norton and Mcaffe, but am confused why there is a charge for then when there is free anti virus software which can be downloaded.  The computer I brought did have Mcaffee, but it is warning me it has now expired.  Any suggestions on what I need to do and what are the risks if I take no acionm
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software that is free is pants...full of spyware etc...any thing that is a free download stay wel clear...ther is ways round yor expired mcafee...etc buy a mcafee disc of download 1 from edonkey or kdrive for zip

There is a very good Free Anti virus that has absolutley no spyware - Grisoft AVG

http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php

 

 

I agree with alunrw AVG is excellent. Recommended by the Telegraph and the Sunday times, also by a couple of computer geeks I know.

also you should get a firewall - zonealarm is well recommended and also free.

you can get smarter versions of both the above by paying an annual fee if you want.

The risks that you face by not having an up-to-date AV programme are that you will be liable to catch any virii that are released since your last update.

A friend of mine bought a PC from PC(expensive)World without a functioning AV programme, no firewall (the Windows one wasn`t even activated) and no anti spyware. Within 2hrs of going on line the PC picked up over 700 infections including virii, trojans, worms and browser hi-jackers. The latter were that deeply embedded that every attempt to get rid of them failed and the PC was practically unusable and needed a full re-install of the operating system.

A strong complaint to PC World resulted in the gift of McAfee`s full Security Suite worth �50 and this together with Microsofts Anti Spyware Beta has solved all his problems.

If you don`t want to pay for McAfee I would suggest you uninstall it and download Avast from http://www.avast.com ,Zone Alarm from http://www.zonealarm.com and Microsofts Anti Spyware Beta.

Disregard the uninformed advice that ALL free software contains spyware. These do not.

dont listen to dave m he is talking out of his derriere

i use avg anti-virus which contains no spyware - free dl and very good with daily updates

i also use sygate firewall which is also free as zone alarm clashed with other software on my pc

i also have microsofts antispyware - again a free dl 

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