My laptop is now officially 3 months old and the dodgy free trial norton that I've been relying on has run out!

Basically I don't really know anything about this protectiony stuff so I'm in need of a decent enough VirusScan and Firewall.

Suggestions?

NOD32, end of thread.

avg free + spybot s&d

Polo Condom. Its the mint with the hole in it!

(not so effective!)

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}

Wrap b4 tap.

free and legal? no.

who said free?

I don't bother.

This always served me well. Still does to this day in fact (although I've sold the laptop to a mate).

http://www.dealfilter.com/deals-worldwide/avg-anti-virus-75-professional-free/

AVG 7.5 Pro - 1yr for free.

If you have access to either Symantec or McAfee corporate/enterprise solutions, they are very good. Unlike their home software, they actually work. I use McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i and I love it.

No matter what you choose, I recommend that you turn off any real-time protection. It generally just slows your system down, and if you are a smart enough user, you don't need it. Instead, use the built in scheduler to schedule daily system scans. Every night at around 5 AM my system does a quick scan that scans all high risk file types (e.g. only EXEs, DLLs, etc). Every week it does a complete system scan that scans absolutely everything on the entire system.

If you really want real-time protection, go with something that will allow you to disable scan on file reading. You only really need to scan files that are created or modified. As long as your system is clean (i.e. you've run a full scan) you don't need to keep scanning files as they are opened. It'll slow you down a lot. The exception to this rule is network drives and removable media. Some scanners may have the option to scan those volumes all the time.

That's what i thought this was about too. D:

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AVG's false positives are really starting to piss me off.

I dont use any anti-virus on any of my machines and I don't have any problems.. I just know what not to click.

PC-Cillin.

I have nothing to contribute.

But I did make this pretty picture (with the help of dell.)

AVG

I heard a rumor that PC-Cillin is going out this February.

But it's just a rumor. I agree with this man.

If only you could breed computers.

Avast! and Nod32, with some spybot.

I've looked into NOD32 and it seems pretty nice. What are the benefits of running this over AVG Free, though?

if you are going paid then kaspersky beats all.