Re: Home computers virus protection

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 12 May 2010 11:25:48 -0700 (PDT)
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On May 12, 1:51 pm, Srini <srinihe...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have been using McAfee virus protection for a long time and starting
last couple of years I have started to not liking the product for
obvious reasons..like frequent fire wall interruptions, crashes,


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update takes longer time and freezing computer intermittently.
Are there any good alternatives for this perhaps people might be
using..appreciate your thoughts.


This is off topic for a Java newsgroup. Please stay on topic.

I like AVG from Grisoft, which comes in a simple free version or a
more robust for-pay version.
<http://free.avg.com/us-en/homepage>
Norton Antivirus is also a fine package.
<http://www.symantec.com/norton/downloads/index.jsp>

To supplement antivirus software, I recommend anti-malware software.
My favorite is Spybot Search & Destroy, not to be confused with
imitators who use confusingly-similar names intentionally.
<http://www.safer-networking.org/en/>

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Lew

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