Virus Software

[Scott Gunn]

Sorry totally off topic. Does anyone know of any good free virus programmes? Got that AVG running but I dont think its working as it should. Any others about? Many thanks.

Scott

[woodgnome]

if your post is off topic, please put o/t in the subject header.

[Penfold]

norton anti virus is one of the best and very easy to use, their are loads of others out there, but some are complicated.

[fevrd]

I've always found PcCillin very good and it wasn't expensive. I bought it years ago and have just been getting updates off the Internet ever since without paying any more.

[Paul E]

AVG's good - I used it for a while before switching to Norton (both their AV and firewall) about a year ago.

With all anti-virus software, though, you need to update them regularly.

[joe king]

virus software is for wimps
from 1998 to 2003 I've never been infected (e.g executed an exe/macro/scr file ), someone sent me some javascript that crashed my computer but is that a virus? No, I don't think so.
I've got a firewall (zonelabs) and a bit of common sense.

Virus software I've found to be more hassle than it's worth.
But let's be safe out there!

[Penfold]

virus' can infect your pc without you knowing, burning a legit file to a cd or saving to a floppy can create a small virus on your pc.

firewalls are good, the best i know of is ZoneAlarm, it hasn't been hacked 'yet', or so i ave been told.