Sunday, October 29, 2006

Free Anti-virus / Anti-Spyware / Firewall

To continue from the last post, noticed that Dell was offering the usual Norton Anit-virus with its package.

I'm not sure about you but I was really disappointed with norton's performance when I used to have it. It failed completely to detect spyware (which you need a separate Norton product for...) and you need to renew your subscription every year.

Well, I've since switched to freewares and am glad to say that I have had no major problems with malware eversince... And all for the cost of $0.

Here's my recommendations for each:
Anti-virus - AVG -> http://www.grisoft.com/doc/1
Anti-Spyware - Ad-Aware -> http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html
Fireware - Zone Alarm -> http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp

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