anti virus and firewall

Hi all i am new here and i want to know which anti virus and firewall will be goo to use,free and protective i know there might be a few but i want to know 1 from each of the anti viruses and firewalls.
thanks alot for setting up this web site!

sorry if this has been asked before....

 

My two favorite options for both Antivirus and Firewall (for Windows OS, of course) are:

Antivirus: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
[Windows 98 | Me /NT | 2000 | XP | XP Pro x64 | Vista X32 | Vista x64 Edition (and Linux i386)]

Note: AVG Anti-Virus Free is only available for single computer use for home and non-commercial use. The use of AVG Free within any organization or for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited.

Firewall: ZoneAlarm Free Firewall [Windows 2000/XP | Vista (32-bit)]
Zone Alarm Hardware Requirements: Pentium III 800 MHz or higher and Minimum system RAM: 512 MB

Note: ZoneAlarm is FREE for "individual" and not-for-profit charitable entity use (excluding governmental entities and educational institutions).

Good Luck!

 

I use Avast Antivirus Pro
http://www.avast.com/

and ZoneAlarm Pro, although be careful with ZoneAlarm as it likes to mess with people who don't know its intricacies. I think there are definitely better firewalls, I have had to do many workarounds with ZoneAlarm.

Avast is awesome though! In conjunction with these security programs:
Spybot http://www.safer-networking.org/
Ad-Aware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
AVG Anti-Spyware http://free.grisoft.com/
CCleaner
http://www.ccleaner.com/
CWShredder
http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshredder_download.html
MRU and Spyware Blasters
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/products.html
PeerGuardian
http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/

And These Programs for General Health of your PC:
Diskeeper
http://www.diskeeper.com/defrag.asp
Registry Mechanic
http://www.pctools.com/registry-mechanic/

This combination has kept me (almost) virus free, and completely free from BSODs and many other errors for almost four years now! :tas

 

Kaddock, how about linking to Major Geeks downloads for all those programs?

http://www.majorgeeks.com/

 

thankssssssssssss a ton load
i will see forward to these programs

again ty alottttttttt