Free anti-virus is a joke, spend some money or do the nasty & borrow a copy.
Commodo has gotten good reviews in the past. Assuming that it remembers what's it's
taught it should not be "popping up all the time" nor "sucking up all the cpu".
I am surprised at the number of morons still doing the P2P thing when good NNTP
access is < $20/mo for 25GB or < $30/mo unlimited SSL encrypted, full pipe speed, no
advertising your IP to the world, no RIAA/MPAA hassle downloading from spools that go
back a year.
Rick Glazier wrote:
AVG, OutPOST, and Spybot S+D
*OutPOST just released a new version for free after letting it hang
in the wind for years. (AVG seems to have solved their recent problems,
but I left first...)
Rick Glazier
----- Original Message ----- From: "Winterlight"
<[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 2:47 PM
Subject: [H] To Protect and Defend
I just did a Kill Disk wipe followed by a clean DELL XP PRO install
on a Dell Inspirion 700m laptop, which belongs to a 18 year old girl
who is headed off to college. I am keeping this setup as clean, and
quick as I can. I am going to install Word, and a couple of MS and
Goggle apps, some maintenance, and diagnostic freeware, and leave it
at that which is all she wants, and probably needs.
Of course, being a teenage college student I am sure it will be use
all sorts of peer to peer stuff like limeware, facebook, and who knows
what the next thing is. Security in mind, I do not want to load it up
with a lot of intrusive draconian AV firewall stuff that blocks
everything, pops up all the time, and sucks up all the performance of
a older single core processor = 1.7M. At least with her games are not
going to be an issue although wireless hot spots are.
So what do you guys think is the best FREE approach, for a firewall,
anti malware, antivirus solution.
Rick Glazier
