MGadAllah Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 (edited) Dear all:We have many experts here around; I'd like to know if it is possible to stay safe and protected while using free tools;What can I use for: Anti virus, Trojans, Ad ware, Spy ware, ...etc, and finally a firewall.And could it be balanced that these tools are being light too.Is it an equation that can be balanced!?Safe Protection + Light Tools + FREE $Please adviseThanks Edited November 17, 2006 by MGadAllah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarun Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 AV: AvastFirewall: ComodoAnti-Malware: Ad-Aware, Spybot, AVG-AS, SpywareBlaster, IE-SpyAds, Firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGadAllah Posted November 17, 2006 Author Share Posted November 17, 2006 Thanks mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 AntiVir is freeware as well and is better than Avast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGadAllah Posted November 20, 2006 Author Share Posted November 20, 2006 AntiVir is freeware as well and is better than Avast. Are you talking about AVG free? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 (edited) No.http://www.av-comparatives.org (Web Site)http://www.av-comparatives.org/weblog (Web Blog) Edited November 20, 2006 by Jeremy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGadAllah Posted November 20, 2006 Author Share Posted November 20, 2006 (edited) So you are talking about this, there are two products:- Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic ... Yes it is free- Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Premium ... Not free and I think you were talking about this one.which one you were talking about mate?Yesterday I was trying COMODO Anti-virus & Firewall, YES... they are free, but not very good as I was expected. Machine became lazy and slow very much.I will try and feed you backThanks Edited November 20, 2006 by MGadAllah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noguru Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 So you are talking about this, there are two products:- Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic ... Yes it is free- Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Premium ... Not free and I think you were talking about this one.which one you were talking about mate?Yesterday I was trying COMODO Anti-virus & Firewall, YES... they are free, but not very good as I was expected. Machine became lazy and slow very much.I will try and feed you backThanksHe's talking about both I think. The version tested by AV comparatives is the premium version but the free version uses exactly the same engine and signatures. I use the classic (free) edition, it runs stable and is light. Imo worth trying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGadAllah Posted November 20, 2006 Author Share Posted November 20, 2006 well, I'm using AVG free + classic version; any thing else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonestonne Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 i tried out comodo for a while, but since i'm all old school my computer doesn't have much ram, so it slowed me down.as long as you aren't the fullscreen power user, i find ZoneAlarm to be a good firewall. its got its flaws, just like every other program created, but it doesn't eat up a computer with already low memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGadAllah Posted November 22, 2006 Author Share Posted November 22, 2006 I'm 512 MB Ram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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