Need t oreplace Norton AV with free - any recommendations?

quidsinquentin

I know that this is always being posted on here, but I used to use Zonealarm Firewall and AVG free stuff until I started getting serious problems with the PC. There may have been some conflict between the two or it may have been ZA that caused a 'loop' of some kind in the XP. I've heard that it's happened before

Can anyone recommend - for windows XP - a currently good combinataion of Firewall/Anti-virus/Anti spyware/malware?

Cheers

oldrimes

Yes - I found that AVG and Zone Alarm didn't always get along together.

About 1 year ago I switched on the XP firewall, and continued to use AVG, but discontinued using Zone Alarm. No problems so far! So perhaps that would be worthwhile trying out.

colin79666

XPs firewall is OK, especially if you have a hardware firewall in a router and run regular spyware checks.

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=1237002 - get you one year FREE EZ antivirus

quidsinquentin

We're on direct Telewest broadband - no router. I think (?)

brummybloke

sygate firewall and symantec av, both free and 0 problems.

Browntoa

windows firewall is useless, don't rely on that !!

Kerio firewall is free and gets updated, Sygate is good but no longer supported so no updates

AVG had my vote both for the Anti- virus abd the new anti spyware (formally known as Ewido)

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

Get free anti-virus and anti-spyware

• AVG Anti-Virus Free
• ewido anti-spyware Free

AVG Anti-Virus Free and ewido anti-spyware Free is for private, non-commercial, single home computer use only.

Wombat

Avast anti-virus:

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

Kerio Personal Firewall:

http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio.cfm

Ad-Aware anti-spyware:

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php

SpywareBlaster:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Spybot Search & Destroy:

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/

CookieWall:

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/cookie.htm

are a much tried and tested combination.