Good free anti-badguys-stuff

[Drisos]

hey,

Soon I will be installing my new computer, and I'll have to use free antivirus stuff etc. Any strong recommendations? Last time I had to use free stuff I had AVG and Kerio Firewall they seemed to do well.

Lots of thanks in advance!~

[Dutch_guy]

AVG works just fine, and for the rest don't forget to install Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D and scan on a regular basis.

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

AVG and Comodo Are Good (but Comodo can drive you nuts if you don't tell it what to block and not )


AVG-Anti Viruis Scan
Comodo-Firewall

[Mikeus Caesar]

Aye, Comodo is good, i use it to. It can drive you insane at first though because you're constantly having to say what you do and don't want blocked. Once you've got it up and running though it's brilliant.

[Xiahou]

Look here too. Specifically, the "Security" section.

For my part, I use AVG and only scan with Spybot/AdAware when I feel the need too. My Firefox+plugins keep me from getting much spyware in the first place. For a firewall/router, I don't think there's any substitute for a dedicated hardware device- I don't trust software firewalls.

[caravel]

A decent hardware NAT router with a built in firewall is probably your best bet. Failing that then it's Comodo, as mentioned by the others. Though the windows firewall is still better than nothing.

For Anti Virus go for AVG.

For anti spyware, those mentioned (Adaware, Spybot S&D) are good. In addition AVG anti spyware (formerly Ewido) is a good program. I also use a neat little program called Spywareblaster which has a nice up to date cookie blacklist for Firefox and IE.

In terms of browsers, just use anything that isn't IE or IE based, so preferably use Firefox or Opera. A decent browser in place of IE is worth ten anti malware tools.

If you want to take it a step further there's always the option of formatting and installing a Linux distro.

[Tran]

Comodo-Firewall

Is it like Sygate Firewall?