hi

what would you all consider the best firewall, antivirus and popup blocker? cheers

 

Check out the "Must Have Free downloads" at

http://www.majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=20

for lots of good FREE stuff, in all categories.

FWIW, I recommend Zone Alarm Free, Avast and Mail Washer. Bazza

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Thanks a lot!!

 

You're welcome.

A suggestion.

Install your choices asap.
Do not go on the Net again until you have installed them.
Nasties may / will strike your PC sooner, or later. :cry Bazza

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what do think of norton?

 

Don't bother. I have used Norton Utilities for more years than I care to remember, going back to DOS days, but have only used it for the Utilities side, and Speedisk in particular. I still use it now, having Norton SystemWorks 2006 Premier on my laptop.
I have 4 old yellow boxes on my bookshelf going back to Dos 3.1.

The Anti-virus, you have to subscribe to ($$$), but Nortons is a resource hog as explained by many here at MG.

As I mentioned, I use ZA Free, Avast Anti-virus, and recommend Mail Washer as anti-spam program. MW is free for 1 email address.
If you want to protect more than 1 email address you must buy the Pro ($$$) version. But everyone is entitled to earn a quid, or dollar, or pound, or yen.

Bazza

 

stan if it helps you at all i would go with what bazza is saying iv just completed a full uninstall of norton is 2006 and although i did choose a different combo
of utilities (comodo firewall,anti vir anti virus and spyware terminator) im still very happy with these programmes and my start up time is much quicker

ferg

 

And your RAM and CPU usages would be less too, I guess. Bazza

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