Protect yourself, get the software now, do not stop to finish your toast, pass go, collect £200... just do it!

You ABSOLUTELY must have

  • a firewall such as Zonealarm, the basic version is excellent and free for home use.
    Try to get version 4.5 rather than the latest version 5 series.

  • anti-virus software, AVG is excellent and again free for home use

  • anti spyware, SpybotS&D and Ad-aware (free version) are the best, use them both together, they complement each other. Although free to use, a donation would be appreciated by the authors.

There are other firewall and anti-virus programmes available, a Google search will throw up dozens of entries.

Google

For in-depth reviews of firewalls and other security issues visit Home PC Firewalls.

These are what we like for home use.

Think you might have a virus, get a free online scan from Trendmicro.

Don't want/unable to download the software, many cover disks on the computer magazines will have these programmes.

Protect yourself, get the software now, do not stop to finish your toast, pass go, collect £200... just do it!

What about Norton internet security or Norton Anti-virus, I hear you ask or McAffee. Well these are both further examples of marketing over techical performance. We liked Peter Norton, his stuff was always technically superb, then he sold out...
Norton software became available from PC World... Nuff said!

Need a second opinion visit computer gripes.

p.s. As a business we quite like Norton, we make money putting it right, fixing its stupid activation, non functioning liveupdate and ripping it out completely, including the 10,000 entries it puts in the windows registry.