Just a little msg:
For those who dont thave a Firewall or a AntiVirus softwear on there computer
Norton Internet Security is now £24.99 at Pcworld in the UK, normal price is £50. (its not just a online offer either)
www.pcworld.co.uk
Well worth it, and im not advertising pcworld just thought at this price ppl may want to know.

katt said:

Isn't she just the coolest!

DexMSR said:

Hiya dex

DexMSR said:

Sexiest little thing I've ever seen

There's some free ones out there too. AVG Antivirus is free, and sites like snapfiles.com have alot of free programs.

Heavenly said:

Tom said:

best being safe than sorry, have a

I got my tetanus shot, does that count as a good anti virus?

I use ZoneAlarm for my firewall. It's a good free program that even the people at TechTV used.

katt said:

I should hope you're not advertising PCWorld Katt, theyre a bloody rip-off merchant!

Unfortunatly my anti-virus is stopping me use my friends network!

Norton and McAfee are shit. It's fucking bloatware and they don't detect backdoors and aren't even very useful as a virusscanner. Use NOD32 ( www.nod32.com ) or Kaspersky AVP ( www.kaspersky.com ) instead with internet monitoring because a lot of sites will dump backdoors on your drive without Windows or the other two crappy AV's even prompting you for an action.

As a (software) firewall the free ZoneAlarm ( www.zonelabs.com ) version will do, but remember a firewall is only as good as its user. In other words, if you don't know much about operating systems, software and when what is supposed to send data over the net you won't find a firewall to be very useful.
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It's a piece of shit. Skip Norton's stuff like the plague. Nothing but bad experiences with it.

I only posted this because i keep geting asked and i thought this package was good as it has: AntiVirus, Personal Firewall, Privacy Control, AntiSpam, Parental Control and GoBack. (good if you have children using the computer and easy for those that are not so computer savvy)
oh well

ian said:

Hiya Ian long time no see i hope ur well....

JDINTERACTIVE said:

JD where have u been best ur doing ok

katt said:

He's fell in again.

I use Zone Alarm as my firewall and AVG Anti Virus. They're both free and have never let me down.

If youre thinking about purchasing some anti-spyware software, you should look over this page:
http://www.spywarewarrior...pyware.htm

It points out alot of so-called anti spyware programs that generate false positives to scare you into buying their program; Or even worse, actually install more spyware on your system.

I use McAfee Antivirus and Firewall because they run smooth, and aren't nearly as much of a resource hog as Norton. Norton is notorious for going buggy when you try to install a newer version of it. This problem has been ongoing for at least 5 years now, which is why I quit using it.

Tom said:

Ive only found this to be the case when i did not uninstal the program first before applying the new version. Norton's website tells people to do this, i just didnt read the last time i put the newer version on.
Ive just put on the product on 3 computers today and ive not had one problem in doing so, suprised me after reading the coments above, i will have to wait and see what the coming days brings to see if any bugs appear....

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katt said:

What you are saying is accurate. I learned from experinece you need to do a complete uninstall of the previous Norton program(use the removal utility) in order for the updated version to be installed and functioning. So far, all is well once I got the damn thing to work.