Best Anti Virus Software - Free or to buy?

wolfman

skiddy2k wrote:

exactly what i thought and done around this time last year... untill Kaspersky 6 came out... much lighter than Kaspersky5, nearly as light as NOD32! more configurable as well with things like registry guard, so i dont need Ad-Watch anymore

Ah nice. Interesting. I'll have to give Kaspersky another look (am a current Nod32 user).

leesmithg wrote:

I am not reading on zonealarm I am going on the poor software they produced between 2001 and 2005.

I'd always thought ZoneAlarm was a very good product. I prefer Kerio, but it's generally quite a good firewall especially given that there's a free version.

angelatgraceland

Divadee-what I've done is to partition my drive so that I have a backup drive where I save all the important stuff-photos-letters-music etc. If I have to reinstall, this "drive" won't be affected. As you only have a small drive at the mo-see if you know anyone capable of fitting another hard drive alongside your present one(so you have 2 drives). There are plenty of secondhand hard drives going cheap at the mo if you're not looking for anything too big.Save all your precious stuff on one, and use the other to run windows and other programs. Yes, it does mean either saving or copying to the extra drive now and then but it is the safest method I've found. Even backing up on dvds I found dodgy as one of them I couldn't read, when I needed to reinstall my photos. Luckily, I overlap the content so I think Ive not lost anything.