guys help me out.. just re-installed windows and looking for a good virus scan / internet security software that won't max out my cpu or slow down applications...my computer is not the fastest and i have run nortons before but that seems to slow a lot of things down any suggestions????
AVG 7 for free is freeware & is updated all the time. People who use it seem to love it, here is a link for you; http://www.grisoft.com/doc/1 Hope this helps, Regards, Pulsar
cheers guys... how do i get the free zone alarm firewall out of curiosity??? is that freeware too? or du u have to pay for it??
yes zone alarm does have a free verison download it here http://www.zonealarm.com/ also i like the Trend Mirco PC-cillin Internet Security 2005 ,thats what i run very good program. but if you want a free program AVG is pretty good and Avast btw norton is the worst program i EVER used period
Well, if you're using/owning a tower/PC then may be you can upgrade to a new/faster processor, just add more ram to it. I don't know about others, but I have AVG Free Edition and Norton AntiVirus 2005, and a few other useful tools such as CCleaner, Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware SE Personal and Microsoft-AntiSpyware. So far it's alright.
I have NOD32 running in the background, but I also have AVG, AVAST and Anit-Vir (all free) to do occassional, on demand scans. They aren't running while NOD32 is. Don't want any conflicts, though I used to have both AVG AND Avast running at the same time without any issues. U might want to check out http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/about/index.xml They run comparison tests of virus scanners. Good site.
If you do a lot of surfing..........Nod32 is excellent. Will alert you of possible trojans on the site itself. This is just going to a site, nevermind downloading. I do know that PC-Cillin does not work with all versions of windows. Tried to install on Windows98.....got error/non support. I'm not sure about Nod32, it came as a 2 or 3 month trial version with my computer. I purchased a year's subscription when the trial ran out. I believe it was under $25 USD for year renewal. Pretty inexpensive in my opinion.
awesome.. thanks guys... with the RAM i'm running 256 @ the moment.. (shocking i know) if i increase that to 1 gig will there be a noticeable difference??? and is there any particular RAM that i should get to improve performance.. sorry i'm new to all this stuff
yes there will be a very noticable difference wetweenthe speed of opening appli ations that you currently have....it will just be a general boost to your pc
What OS do u have? 98? ME? XP? 512 should the bare minimum depending on what you're going to use the pc for. That said, 1G or more is the only way to fly!
anyway do not get Norton or Macshield both sucks it missed some anti virus that TrendMicro caught. while scanning trend micro doesn't even use too much of resources power. on top of that it's cheaper than both of them.
