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| Thread ID: 43725 | 2004-03-24 23:58:00 | What is the favoured free Anti virus proggie? | John H (8) | Press F1 |
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| 224957 | 2004-03-24 23:58:00 | I am going to reformat my son's computer over the weekend (shudder) and reinstall the OS because the thing is in such a mess. AVG is the current anti virus software on his computer. Is this adequate protection, or are there better free anti virus proggies on the net that I could get for him? Needless to say my son and his family are on the bones of their proverbials; hence the request. Thanks for any recommendations. John |
John H (8) | ||
| 224958 | 2004-03-25 00:09:00 | Both me and my local pc assembler, would say stick with AVG. Its pretty good especially if you don't have the latest and greatest hardware. | Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 224959 | 2004-03-25 00:17:00 | Thanks DD - they don't have the latest and greatest hardware apart from the monitor, keyboard and mouse :-) The computer is a hand me down from me - it used to be a back up box. Thanks for the advice. John |
John H (8) | ||
| 224960 | 2004-03-25 00:19:00 | I've used AVG for a couple of years, works fine. Safe computer usage goes a long way for protection too. I was in a cybercafe the other day and noticed they used AVG. Seems like a sort of a recommendation. Or could be just stingy :^O cheers :D |
mark c (247) | ||
| 224961 | 2004-03-25 00:47:00 | I'm really confident using AVG > Or could be just stingy :^O Or could be using the paid-for Pro version |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 224962 | 2004-03-25 00:51:00 | Pays to use Drive Image 2002 or ghost after a succesful reinstallation that way to restore the image of a perfect system take mins rather than hours and you dont need to worry about finding correct drivers or software cds etc . have that plus anti virus stuff if needed somewhere |
kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 224963 | 2004-03-25 01:06:00 | Thanks Mark, Greg and kiwibeat. It looks like AVG then. I have Jetstream so I want to download and get all installation files burned onto CD before I go over to the Coast tomorrow - my son has cranky old dial up. So I have Acrobat Reader, Open Office, Mozilla, Winzip etc all on CDs ready for the install after the OS installation. Good idea about Drive Image. I hadn't thought about that. Will take that too and a pile of CDs. Thanks everyone. What a great resource this forum is... |
John H (8) | ||
| 224964 | 2004-03-25 01:42:00 | And a firewall? Free ZoneAlarm? |
Laura (43) | ||
| 224965 | 2004-03-25 01:49:00 | >And a firewall? Thanks Laura. I favour Sygate Personal Firewall, so I will be installing that - already in the folder ready for CD burning! Thanks. John |
John H (8) | ||
| 224966 | 2004-03-25 01:58:00 | >>Or could be using the paid-for Pro version. Oh Y that"s a point. :D |
mark c (247) | ||
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