Firewall and Anti virus for Netbook??

davmail

Hi,I am getting a 120gb Samsung Netbook today,can anyone advise on what Firewall and anti virus to use please,or can I just put on ZA and Avast,it has XP Home as its operating system.Many Thanks.:rolleyes:

[Deleted User]

I'd use Avira AntiVir and Windows XP SP3 firewall. ZA is rubbish.

mluton

Use the standard XP firewall and also your Modem will have a firewall to.

I use AVG antivirus, but people have recomemnded a few on here including Avast.

My personal choice.

kwikbreaks

On this netbook (pretty standard at 1.6GHz Atom 1GB memory and XP Home) I use Avira and just the XP firewall with FireFox as the browser and no anti spyware. It works fine and I've not encountered any nasties.

macman

Why is everyone assuming this netbook is running XP and not Lnux?

gaming_guy

macman wrote: »

Why is everyone assuming this netbook is running XP and not Lnux?

davmail wrote: »

Hi,I am getting a 120gb Samsung Netbook today,can anyone advise on what Firewall and anti virus to use please,or can I just put on ZA and Avast,it has XP Home as its operating system.Many Thanks.:rolleyes:

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macman

Doh! I'm sure it didn't say that a minute ago... I'm off to Specsavers...

kwikbreaks

I suppose as an alternative to installing anti virus, firewall, anti spyware the recommendation could be Ubuntu. It would probabaly run faster too.

Jaffa.

Staples are selling Bitdefender 2009 Antivirus cheep for £11 for 3 pc's, 1 year and that gives you protection from malware, spyware, adware and viruses. You've got good heuristics scanning too. It's top in the top 10

Theres no real need for a software firewall as you allready have one with windows xp SP2/3.

davmail

Many thanks for the replies,I put on Avast,and Zone Alarm,working a treat now,quite quick for a netbook too.;)