COMPUTER ANTIVIRUS/SECURITY PROGRAMS (Any Good FREE Ones?)
I know that may be a stupid question, but I have heard there is no need for paying for stuff like Norton or any other security systems for your computer, that there are excellent and supposedly free...
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Avast is pretty reliable.
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I've used AVG for years - http://free.avg.com/us-en/homepage
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I have Microsoft Securities Essentiials. It sucks or did suck in the past. I haven't had any problems in the past two years. Maybe the updates improved it. Norton I just hate. I could never get it to...
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Thank you guys! Alot of what you are saying, about Norton especially, I have heard from friends. It seems to be very hard to get rid of. Since posting this, I asked a friend, and he also has Microsoft...
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Free stuff that I use: Malwarebytes Antimalware- update it every day Spybot Search & Destroy Spyware Blaster I tried a few of the free anti virus programs out there and had a lot of bugs. McAfee...
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I like Superantispyware. Just ran a scan yesterday and it caught 1052 adware cookies -- probably from all this Yuku nonsense -- and things run a lot faster today. As far as pay-for stuff, I hear good...
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Depends. If you know or want to know about security and viruses, Comodo does it all very well. If anything, they include way too much in their suite. It's also difficult to know which applications to...
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I have Webroot Spysmasher. However, it isn`t free. And apparently it isn`t compatible with Windows 8.1. I wanted to upgrade to 8.1 but it told me no dice with Webroot.
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MajorGeeks.com is a really good resource I use all the time.
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I learned something too. I'll check out some of them links and get protection. Don't want no 'lectronic cooties.
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No luck here thus far. We here who possess older Macs may be out of luck. I run Tiger on a Power PC and iBook Gen4 and the earliest OS supported I could find was Tiger but it required an Intel...
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I've been running AVG Anti-Virus and Spybot SD-Resident on my laptop for two years and never had a single infection. Both are free, I'm very happy with them. I also never use Internet Explorer, I'm...
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Based on what was said here I got that Superantispyware. They found over 1300 ad tracker junk. The computer isn't running any better though, but that stuff is annoying anyway.
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I really don't feel qualified to comment,because I am still not that 'computer' savvy.. but...I had AVG and my computer crashed on me, so I went with Norton, and honestly, although I have heard...
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My brother in law uses Avast! and Spybot, and never had a problem. He's a high tech engineer type, and his computer-major son hooked him up. I bow to their experience re mechanical device type...
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Thanx guys, for the continued good info.
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HalLane wrote:My brother in law uses Avast! and Spybot, and never had a problem. He's a high tech engineer type, and his computer-major son hooked him up. I bow to their experience re mechanical...
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As a side note, my own computer guru friend recommended UN-installing one program before installing another, as I did when replacing McAfee with Webroot (both are pay subscriptions, though). For the...
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ARGumshoe wrote:I've used AVG for years -http://free.avg.com/us-en/homepageI have as well, and this has done very well, including catching a few bugs that Norton overlooked. Usually updates itself and...
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