Free anti-virus and firewall software

[NightbladeXX]

... I was curious about the Active Virus Shield because I had seen good reviews on it. When I went to look at it today it said it was no more......

For the most part IMO, if it may please the court, I find most reviews from magazines to seem coporated and biased

I prefer to test them out for myself, Norton and McAfee are IMO, if it may please the court, to be crapware and money driven software. I tested Norton and McAfee myself a couple of different times, even used to subscribe to Nortons' usual System Works for numerous years, buying the new upgrades year after year, only to find out that it screwed my computer up, and I had 2 trojans, on my system, and Free-ware programs found these and fixed my computer.

Im sometimes too anal about things, and vehement against things that have burnt me, but I while can admit the Norton and McAfee have stepped up their efforts, mainly Ive seen its alot easier to uninstall now than in preveious years. But I will never use their crap again, as I was spending way too much for their BS, as it seems every software publisher is getting on the subscription bandwagon now-a-days

[zonealarmforcef]

Another new free tool is ZoneAlarm ForceField. It's virtual browsing like sandboxie, but specifically designed for security, with alerts when you're on sketchy sites, anti-phishing, spyware prevention, etc. I'm helping find users for our beta, and we'd love to hear what you think.

[MilesAhead]

For the most part IMO, if it may please the court, I find most reviews from magazines to seem coporated and biased

I prefer to test them out for myself, Norton and McAfee are IMO, if it may please the court, to be crapware and money driven software.
(snip)

Hmmm, when I first started learning Intel assembly I typed in like 13 files worth of assembler(back then the programming books didn't come with a disk so you could just copy onto the PC) from Peter Norton's book to create this little disk sector editor utility. I think he made a better programmer than CEO.

[NightbladeXX]

Another new free tool is ZoneAlarm ForceField. It's virtual browsing like sandboxie, but specifically designed for security, with alerts when you're on sketchy sites, anti-phishing, spyware prevention, etc. I'm helping find users for our beta, and we'd love to hear what you think.

Too bad no Vista or I might try it.

till then I stick with Sandboxie

Version 3.02 is out!!!

[NightbladeXX]

well looks like ZoneAlarm's Force Field now supports Vista but is still in BETA

Sandboxie is running like a champ altho I have found Firefox runs better in it than IE7

Still no Mal-Ware detected on my system, and I have found a memory leak but that was with 32 Tabs in IE7 and not 100% sure it was a memory leak or just a total systme bog down, but it crippled Sandboxie and Vista requiring a hard reboot was worried that this may have compromised sandboxie so I did a FULL system scan using 15 different programs thru all 3 OSes on my system still 100% clean against all known Mal-ware

[admin]

AVG 7.5 Pro is available to download for free (usually $29.95) until 17/1/2008:

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/avg/

[BR7]

Worked for me
Thanks Admin

[soup]

Running Clamwin & using System Suite 8's Net Defense 2-way firewall (not free), on the XP32 side & Clamwin with Comodo's 2-way firewall, having chosen Basic not Advanced during the installation. Have a friend who is running Clamwin & Comodo on Vista, been doing it for a while now.

[snagel]

re: admin

AVG 7.5 Pro is available to download for free (usually $29.95) until 17/1/2008:

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/avg/

bought the magazine as I have for about 7 months now? I can't see anything in the magazine that states anything at all about this offer. Is this in the last issue or what? Where am I supposed to find the information for the offer above . Your help would be appreciated.

[admin]

I don't have the magazine either, I found the link on another website (which got the link from another forum). Apparently, all you need to do is to download and install the software, although some have said that it is a 1 year license only. More info and download mirrors here:

http://cybernetnews.com/2007/12/26/free-antivirus-avg-75-professional/

The MegaUpload mirror is still working, I just confirmed.

[mill]

http://siri.geekstogo.com/SmitfraudFix.php

Heres a little scanner. Tell me what you think please

[Chewy]

Clean up vs Clean Install

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/10063

The experts at CERT and SANS don't think an on-site team of certified trained and experienced professionals can reliably clean a system that has had a backdoor installed, up to the standards of everyday commercial and institutional use. So how can one expect to do that long distance?

backdoor trojans are now using rootkits

[dr_ml422]

Hi Guys. What's W/ZoneAlarm's Free System Checkup? Is it worth a try w/out messing up your pc in anyway? I already have ZoneAlarm free. Just don't want to leave anything else running in the background after a free scan. Thnx.

[dr_ml422]

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/10063



backdoor trojans are now using rootkits

Glad I read this and also some posts through search in the forum about zonealarm. Just dumped it. Looks like we all just have to stick w/w/e's working in the moment and just keep on top of the constant changes to security whether good or bad.

[Chewy]

I am seeing some new malware hitting, people downloading apps off P2P, can't get into safe mode, no .exe files will work, no av, rootkit keylogging backdoor trojans where if even your antimalware finds and deletes the files, they come right back, people are pulling the plug to the internet, wiping their computers, losing all data and reinstalling.
The bad guys seem to be doing it just to trash computers tho.