Mobby
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hi my nortons just ran out and im not looking to pay again, i know there's some free stuff about can anyone recommend me some?
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marklawton
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Location: Pensby, Wirral Drives:Golf mk4 GTI
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avg is pritty good
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Jakey
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Registered: 4th Jun 07
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Im running AVG and Zonealarm. Cant fault any of them.
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Mobby
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whats zonealarm?
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Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
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zonealarm... yuck!
AVG and Geek Day!
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Jakey
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quote:
Originally posted by mobby
whats zonealarm?
Internet security and antivirus.
Bart - How come you dont like ZA?
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Bart
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I've never really liked personal software firewalls, I find they hog resources and annoy the pish out of me.
If you have a router (like myself) which has a software firewall built in, then your personal firewall is really only good for software dialling out, which I usually deal with myself when I install the software and the rest doesnt bother me.
Each to their own really, I find programs like that embed themselves too much into the OS and I hate that.
[Edited on 10-08-2008 by Bart]
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Dom
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Avast is what i'm running, it'ss free and reviews seem to suggest it's better than AVG.
I find it a little quicker than AVG and it seems to use a lot less resources.
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Jakey
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quote:
Originally posted by Bart
I've never really liked personal software firewalls, I find they hog resources and annoy the pish out of me.
If you have a router (like myself) which has a software firewall built in, then your personal firewall is really only good for software dialling out, which I usually deal with myself when I install the software and the rest doesnt bother me.
Each to their own really, I find programs like that embed themselves too much into the OS and I hate that.
[Edited on 10-08-2008 by Bart]
Fair enough.
Everything you said was far to geeky for me  I just installed it as my mums mate (big on PCs) said it was a good anti virus.
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Mobby
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so what shall i use??? zonealarm? or avast and why have you used two jakey?
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by mobby
so what shall i use??? zonealarm? or avast and why have you used two jakey?
Zonealarm is a Firewall, personally i wouldn't bother using a third party one, just stick to windows in-built one. And like Bart said if you have a router then they come equipped with hardware versions as well.
As for anti-virus, like said AVG and Avast are about the two popular ones - try them both out and see which you prefer 
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Mobby
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thanks for the reply, ill stick with windows firewall, and ill try out avg first, shall i uninstall norton? or shall i keep it to scan my pc?
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by mobby
thanks for the reply, ill stick with windows firewall, and ill try out avg first, shall i uninstall norton? or shall i keep it to scan my pc?
yea completly uninstall norton, then install AVG.
It's also worth downloading CCleaner, as it removes a lot of crud from your system (temp files, registery cleaner etc) - if i uninstall something then i run the reg cleaner.
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marklawton
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i used avg, but changed to avast and is better in my opinion. its free on the net for 12 months, after that just re-install it again
my dad has avg on his computer and my mum has avg on her laptop.
so its down to what you prefer, if you download alot of songs and that then i would go for avast
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marklawton
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quote:
Originally posted by Dom
quote:
Originally posted by mobby
thanks for the reply, ill stick with windows firewall, and ill try out avg first, shall i uninstall norton? or shall i keep it to scan my pc?
yea completly uninstall norton, then install AVG.
It's also worth downloading CCleaner, as it removes a lot of crud from your system (temp files, registery cleaner etc) - if i uninstall something then i run the reg cleaner.
ive heard goof reviews about CCleaner, might have to get a copy
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by marklawton
quote:
Originally posted by Dom
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Originally posted by mobby
thanks for the reply, ill stick with windows firewall, and ill try out avg first, shall i uninstall norton? or shall i keep it to scan my pc?
yea completly uninstall norton, then install AVG.
It's also worth downloading CCleaner, as it removes a lot of crud from your system (temp files, registery cleaner etc) - if i uninstall something then i run the reg cleaner.
ive heard goof reviews about CCleaner, might have to get a copy
yeah it seems to be pretty good. Before i use to use MaceCraft RegCleaner (powertools i think its called) - seemed to work pretty well but everyone says this is better. Although i find the old JV16 RegCleaner, the newer MaceCraft and CCleaner all pick up different stuff in the reg, so i use a mixture of all three. But a lot people say, cleaning the registry does absolutely nothing in performance, but i just use them to get rid of traces of uninstalled priograms.
Also Spyware Blaster and SpyBot are a must
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Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
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make sure you completely uninstall norton, and then go to add/remove again and uninstall anything related to 'symantec' and 'liveupdated'.
It wont completely uninstall itself 
Im going to try avast I think.
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Jakey
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CCleaner ftw.
Just deleted 3.2gb worth of crap of my laptop 
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DannyB
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Avira desktop or AVG you can get both at download.com/majorgeeks.com/filehippo.com etc etc
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Mobby
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Thanks guys
Im going to use avast i think as most of you guys have and i do have a few songs.
ps should i search internet whilst im doing this?
[Edited on 10-08-2008 by mobby]
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chloe16v
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Registered: 29th Nov 07
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pc guard & zone alarm
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Bart
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quote:
Originally posted by cb87
pc guard & zone alarm
/slap
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Mobby
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quote:
Originally posted by Bart
quote:
Originally posted by cb87
pc guard & zone alarm
/slap
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Mobby
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quote:
Originally posted by Bart
make sure you completely uninstall norton, and then go to add/remove again and uninstall anything related to 'symantec' and 'liveupdated'.
It wont completely uninstall itself
Im going to try avast I think.
cant there is one program that wont let me uninstall
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sand-eel
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AVG is very good
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