Antivirus software?

Just about to have AVG freeware expire, can anyone recommend another decent freeware programme? Avast? Cheers.

Isn't only older versions of AVG that are having the updates withdrawn? The current version (7.5) is still works as before for free.

But to answer the question, I often see people recommending Avast! on PC forums, although I haven't actually used it myself.

I've not got one.

Why do you need them?

For surfing porn I think Col.

Avg still has a free version, but it's got a retarded scheduler, so I hacked the fucker with a serial, 30 feckin quid ust so I don't have to choose between no automatic system scans and one every day.

Of course my other machine doesn;t need one, the only virus I fear in linux will arrive by email saying

"please log in as root and delete some important files, then send this to your friends"

Well I've been am enthusiastic porn-surfer for years and I've never caught anything.

I booked some tickets with JAT just before christmas and the email address I used has been flooded with spam.

Some cnut has used my address to send spam too, so I get about a hundred failure messages a day.

Bastards

Some isp's give you an option to not receive those Delivery Status Notifications...

And you should be able to configurate your e-mail program to delete any mail that doesn't have your EXACT e-mail address (most spam generates a random name before the @ in the address) before downloading it from the server so that it no longer bothers you.

Norton is shite.

This is a bit off topic but......

My Outlook Express is fucked. I never use it anyway. But when I hit "contact" on sites where it takes you straight to Outlook, 64 (always 64) blank boxes rapidly pop up on my screen and i need to close the whole group down. It's a pain in the tits because there's some sites that this is the only way of getting the contact details of who I'm trying to speak to.

Also, when I'm at my Users Screen (I have two users set up on this PC) under my name it says I have like 439 unrtead messages yet when I open up Outlook there's nowt. Is someone sending emails via my PC? Happened to my partner who's server was hijacked for that purpose.

Cheers Old Blue

Thanks all, just realised it was AVG 7.1 which is being consigned to history so 7.5 here we come!

yeah i keep getting that message telling me my AVG expires on 15th Jan .Going to update to 7.5 .

ally wrote:

Doctor? wrote: Avg still has a free version, but it's got a retarded scheduler, so I hacked the fucker with a serial, 30 feckin quid ust so I don't have to choose between no automatic system scans and one every day.

Er Steve, there's definitely an option to disable daily scanning in the AVG Free software setup. Plus I'm pretty sure you can disable it from inside the scheduler window as well once it's installed.

I put AVG on my spare PC and it started scanning automatically each day but that was knocked on the head pretty swiftly as it is bloody irritating, not to mention overzealous.

Oh, I know you can kill it, it's just it only offers daily or fuck all. My machine has so many files if I let it scan daily I'd get about 4 hours use out of it :D

I needed it to scan once a week.

James Thomas wrote: Thanks all, just realised it was AVG 7.1 which is being consigned to history so 7.5 here we come!

Woulkdn't worry about it mate, half the news sites on the net ran the story as you understood it about 2 weeks ago, followed by hasty retractions ;)

Got Norton on the laptop; and McAfee on this............tbh Norton is crap. This is so touchy though; half of the time, I can't download anything and the bloody thing keeps telling me to do this, do that..........aaaggghhh......its bugging me. Although it did tell me that this site.........is.........'suspect'!

Anyone use Norman anti virus with it's sandbox technology,whatever that is,a friend of mine says it's excellent..

Spotnick wrote: Best anti-virus is to use your judgment, and don't let anybody else than you touch your computer.

I never used an anti-virus, those softwares are just done to slow computers.

When I am in doubt, there is some free one you can use online... otherwise, don't run or install everything on your computer...

should we be worried about this, is nool safe?

i guess spotty knows what he's doing.

NOOLigan wrote:

Spotnick wrote: Best anti-virus is to use your judgment, and don't let anybody else than you touch your computer.

I never used an anti-virus, those softwares are just done to slow computers.

When I am in doubt, there is some free one you can use online... otherwise, don't run or install everything on your computer...

should we be worried about this, is nool safe?

i guess spotty knows what he's doing.

i guess that's why there have been those mass spammings to all people on the NOOL member list from someone purporting to be Nic.