are there any good free anti virus and firewall apps available?

**ThE gOg** · 26th November 2006

hi

its for my mum n dad who are not computer literate to say the least so aren't willing to pay much

is there any free stuff that does a sufficeint job without confusing thm with pop ups etc??

cheers for your time

P

**flumperino** · 26th November 2006

avg free for antivirus mate. Very good indeed, not had a problem for 3 years

Not sure about firewalls - I use sygate, but it was discontinued about a year ago

**1 REP MAX** · 26th November 2006

http://www.download.com/AVG-Anti-Vir...ml?tag=lst-0-1

This is a good free Anti-virus

**TheManWho** · 26th November 2006

Zone Labs Firewall

'Tis not bad

**Mule** · 26th November 2006

Windows XP comes with a built in firewall, just use that and as mentioned above, AVG free for the virus protection. You may also want to get windows defender.

**blacksheep** · 26th November 2006

and spybot search and destroy

**CominAtcha** · 27th November 2006

http://www.comodogroup.com/products/free_products.html

**Fresh** · 27th November 2006

I thought AVG was no longer going to be free soon - think its no longer free from the 15th Janary...?

Id suggest using Avast for antivirus software used it free for 16 months now and its pretty good - never had any problems. Its got a small imprint [low cpu usage].

You will need to register... heres the link: http://www.avast.com/i_kat_207.php

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

**DJAd** · 27th November 2006

Most of them are free if you know where to look mate

Otherwise AVG is the boy

**TwoPlAnKs** · 27th November 2006

i use avg, but its sort of like lisa simpsons rock analogy because i never had any viruses before i used it either

it does some update thing every night at 8 o'clock and has a wee flashy icon that changes colour when it cant do its updates or you turn it off or something

other than that i havent really looked at it, but it pops up little boxes saying its found virsuses when i look at dodgy pages and things sometimes and you can move them to quarentine

it certainly hasnt broken my computer like i've heard a lot of the pro ones do