Pc Protection

maggiesoup

Just had a warning from McAfee saying my PC protection will expire soon. They want £45 for another year's subscription but this seems very expensive? I'm no techie, don't even use the computer that often but will feel too vulnerable if I have no protection at all. Any advice anyone? Thanks.

westferret

Protection i use is

avg - anti virus
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/downloads-products/us/frt/0?prd=aff

Zonealarm - firewall
http://www.download.com/ZoneAlarm-Firewall-Windows-2000-XP-/3000-10435_4-10039884.html

Spybot - get rid of spyware and adware
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Ad aware - get rid of adware (covers everything that spybot misses)
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

Ccleaner (gets rid of the cookies and files you don't need on your computer and usually the files that contain spyware)
http://www.ccleaner.com/

Hope this helps

CHR15

I agree with westferret.

What he failed to mention is......... ALL that lot is FREE! :)

mattytun

maggiesoup wrote: »

Just had a warning from McAfee saying my PC protection will expire soon. They want £45 for another year's subscription but this seems very expensive? I'm no techie, don't even use the computer that often but will feel too vulnerable if I have no protection at all. Any advice anyone? Thanks.

http://www.webuser.co.uk/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/219333/an/0/page/0#219333 <<click here

keggies

Agree, agree, agree.

My Norton (which came with the system) was due to expire in another week. Now it's no longer there, all gone and the system (strangely) runs smoother.

All I use now (on a Vista system) is

AVG - Antivirus (Free)
Vista Firewall (Free)
Spyware Terminator (Free)
Threatfire (Free)
plus the firewall built into my router.

Plus I have Spybot (run once a week)
and CCleaner (runs on startup)

I came across "Shields UP" which appears (not techy minded) to see how secure your connection is and mine passed with flying colours.

If anyone is interested the link I used for Shields Up is

https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2