have you tried it yet?

No. It will probably infect you.

No why. Why would i put that piece of crap on my computer. Have you try AVG.

http://free.avg.com/

Also Avira

http://www.free-av.com/

Also Free Firewall Zonealarm

http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en...e-download.htm

No need for MS crap please come on.

Don't tell me you IE lover too. Firefox and Opera are far safer and better products.

I just want feedback from the brave souls out there......my Norton will expire soon!

Please dont shout, what is wrong with IE

dont forget avast, thats the one my hacker buddy recommends, he is good and it keeps him out. ( and its free) like avg.

IE is supposed to be less secure, personally ( again on the advice of my hacker buddy) i use firefox

It uses a lot of resources that it doesnt need to, so its seems slow and cumbersome in comparison, plus the fact that its the default choice means that miscreants will tend to focus on finding its security loopholes in preference to other, lower volume browsers.


I rather like google chrome myself.



As for Anti virus. I use AVG, it seems very good to me, and outperforms many of the AV programs that people pay for in independent testing I see no need to trade over to the MS one, which will no doubt become a magnet for people seeking to exploit any weaknesses it may have.

See Iaink. Download this and never look back.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html

Don't its foul piece of software. Don't do it. It's real hog. You're have dickens of a job getting rid of it. It hide everywhere on ya machine. There no need to use it.


Carefully when using for chrome for doing banking online. It's not been 100% fixed yet.

Would this be an approriate point in the thread to say....

"Get a Mac. It just works."

?

I was just thinking the same.

You still have to have a firewall and virus checker. The internet runs slightly slow on Mac too. But you never really notice. Nether are better or worst. It just matter of what you get used to plus on Mac you can run XP or Vista if you like.

till it breaks

Avast is great for AV, Comodo for firewall is bothered by having one, Zonealarm is a resource sink.

Browser, whatever you want to use, but IE is a bit rubbish. I use FF though I'd also recommend Opera.

I've been using them since the late 80's.... haven't had one break yet

I have....just another computer when they do.

Yup! We have 4 laptops in our household (1 Dell, 2 Acers and a Macbook), a Dell Dimension desktop PC and a Dell Power Edge server. The only one of those that's failed us so far (and they're all about the same age - all purchased since we moved here) is the Macbook, with overheating issues and a hard drive failure