Starting Over - Need free Adare / anti virus stuff

snowtires · Post by **snowtires** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:57 pm

leonard wrote:
snowtires wrote: you'd better, watch out! i'm gonna turn your computer on!
NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

too late, it's on! that's right, you have been slightly inconvenienced, depending on how you look at it!

forgie · Post by **forgie** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 4:25 pm

Avast is the bomb for Windows AV. And it's free. It's all I use on windows. I try not to use windows any more... I'm a mac guy now.

<rant>
To the guy who said that AV vendors create viruses as well to sell their products... remember the groundbreaking OSX "viruses" a few months back? That was all PR whipped up by Symantec who were launching a marketing campaign to get OSX users to buy AV software from them. None of those "viruses" were anything worth mentioning, it was all a beat up. Nice try Symantec. No cigar. Notice how OSX users haven't been overrun by the nasty viruses that Symantec gave severe warnings about? Gee what a surprise.
</rant>

stinky · Post by **stinky** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:26 pm

I use 3 things, and i never ever have problems..

1) AVG Free Antivirus http://free.grisoft.com

Free Antivirus programs, updated frequently, and runs every morning

2) Spybot Search & Destroy http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html

Free Spyware detector, updated frequently, and runs on boot

3) Symantec Norton Ghost
http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice ... id=ghost10

$70 for this Disk Image Utility.. it takes an image of the drive, and compresses it... I burn it to a DVD for backup, and can restore the drive or the system back to any previous state

I never ever have a problem, and i can restore anytime I want (20-30 min)...