Free (and recommended) anti-virus

I play poker online often, and was talking with a guy from England who was playing online also. This guy is an IT consultant with his own business. We were talking about anti-virus stuff and he told me that the best anti-virus stuff is available free on the web. He told me to download 4 programs (links below) which he says as long as they are kept updated, they will provide the best protection for your computer.

If anyone is struggling for decent virus protection, it should do you good if what this guy says is anything to go by.

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/RootkitRevealer.html (does what it says on the tin)

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 (anti-virus)

http://www.ewido.net/en/ (trojan remover)

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html (its a program called 'hijackthis' - im not quite sure what its for though, need to ask the guy - I think it basically stops ppl hijacking ur puter, so it might be like a firewall? Too advanced for me I think).

Hope its of help to someone.

 

a friend of mine had a virus attack lately.. ill refer these to him and he ll test if they are any good

cheers

 

Here is an alternate Onlinescan:

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

Works very good and has always an actual Definitionfile...

 

Maybe some of the techie people on the forums know more about this stuff.

I have a virus proggie right now that I got from a place i used to work - it has 3 viruses sitting in quarantine, but cant remove them

Ill let you know how i get on when I install them

 

Keeps your browser's Home Page at the site YOU wish it to be and told it to be in yer TOOLS/INTERNET OPTIONS/GENERAL tab. Some ads 'hijack' yer home page and, worse, some of the stuff the first proggie fights will keep yer Home Page fucked up, or, um, I mean, restore it to THEIR hijack after a reboot.

Um, AVG is okay, but 30days???? 30 days???
[hint, get a registration crack for it - I didn't say that]

Trend is cool. Ya don't want to be on dial-up when yer usin it though. Fuck. Takes time man, lottsa time.

I ain't expert hacker, shit, I can write a batch file or a script.... Why then, do relatives who despise me tell other relatives I am a 'Hacker' and I shouldn't be allowed near their machinery?
At Christmas, when travelling around to family homes, I often will pass by a room with a desk in it, wires all over the floor and NO COMPUTER ON THE DESK.

Well, any idiot relative of mine wants to pay 90 bucks an hour for a ForPay techie to remove adware is welcome to it.

Nevermind.

Oh and um: Get the Kasperski thinge, it is good.

 

There are many good progs at http://www.sysinternals.com

 

AVG is available "free for private users" or what they call it.
But they have been sure to hide the link somewhat, I suppose they do that to make people use the other one.
I use AVG, seems to work good. I have no registered/bought it, just registered as user.

There is also http://www.free-av.com/ a german antivir, free for personal use.

 

AVG is free in home edition...

imho better is AVAST ---> http://avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
czech avir (like avg) +firewall in one...

 

@glas: boot your pc in safe mode, scan it if u want again and remove the files in q then, should work.

 

I'll try that Trojan remover. I think that my current became too lazy

Edit: damn, it requires Win2000 or XP. I've only 98SE My machine couldn't handle that RAM eater

 

I always gotta remove Trojans by myself, I can't get her to take it off me......

 

That's awesome! Their PCs are probably full of crap, too Sometimes it's awkward to really look at another's PC, because you get to know all of their perverted surfing habits. I've found it's best not to really help a friend clean up his comp when his wife is looking over your shoulder!

 

I have been using AVG for more than 3 years now for free and it really keeps my puter working. Would NEVER even be consindering spending money on antivirusprogrammes, since the free ones avaiable are really great ones all together.

 

Antivirus soft is not needed. Just dont allow to use your comp by your father, brother, sister and mother, stop waching pornosites, install firefox and microszit antispyware.
Antivir software just decrase performance of ur machine and start scheduled scan in worst moment (eg. u riding with mixer )

 

I managed not to have a virus on my computer since 1998. Actually I lost any hope to get one so I switched to Linux...

 

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ad porno: stop watching pornosites? are u crazy?


but 99% of problems are windows without patches and servicepacks...

 

but 100% of problems are windows

 

i dont think so....

There are many problems in open source too, mb more than in windows...

 

heh, define problems?

face it. windows memory management sucks, theres lots of viruses, trojans, spyware whatever and security updates are always late. also you have more or less identical system with millions of people which makes it very easy for hackers. So far theres what 1 or 2 viruses made for linux, which maybe could work in one in a million of linux systems around (some specific redhat kernel version IIRC).

atleast my personal experience tells me that im more safe with bare assed linux box on net than with up to date windows behind several firewalls.

sure there is security holes in opensource too. but those are usually fixed way before some script kiddies will know about them. and even if you manage to use some software vulnerability to sneak into system you cant do much harm without root priviledges.

so problems with viruses and such... much less with other OSses than with windows. With linux basicly none.

what might those other problems be?

 

1) linux and windows are different system, one for experts and second for users and experts too

2) there are many viruses and trojans for windows, of course, because majority people have windows... and there are viruses and trojans for Linux too, ask Benny/29A. It's not problem to make virus for Linux too...

3) Big problems with drivers for Linux, but it's better and better now...

I have nothing agains Linux, but i think that Linux is good like server not home station for normal users, windows are most user-friendly for everyone