Originally Posted by Tivù  I'm with you here.
Nothing wrong with many of the free offerings (but not all, of course: Some are just scams to get you to "upgrade").
One does see reports of very knowledgeable PC bods claiming to run with judicious surfing as their only protection.
Windows Firewall and AVG Free (which has integral Anti-Spyware) for me, having tried many. many others. |
I ran an old win 98 computer for nearly 3 years with no av protection on it. When I did get around to putting something on & scanning it was clean
HOWEVER, only myself & swmbo ever used the computer & we know what we are doing & stay away from dodgy sites. No kids ever go anywhere near it.....
When we upgraded to XP the pc got nailed by the old blaster worm as soon as we went online to update the virus scanner! So I went back to win 98 for another year
Hasd Norton for 3 years on my current pc - part of the purchase price. Bloody awful bit of bloatware crap. Took it off as soon as it expired and stuck AVG on it. Zone Alarm gives some peace of mind, but again no kids ever go anywhere near my computer so its fairly safe.
27-08-2009
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