yeah man, nasty little blighter that was.
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I got a decent "free" operating system, oh yeh and the "free" firewall that comes with it. Nothing else. No probs for last few years.
Answer Linux + Mozilla firefox
V.I.S.T.A.
Viruses
Intruders
Spyware
Trojans and
Adware

God Bless Bill Gates dont know how he can bare to live life must be so hard. If he had a conscience!

My Norton antivirus is due to end on 27th Dec ... any chance of giving me links to where these 'Free' ones are ???? and are they safe ??

Cheers

free antivirus
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/
very safe and works
there are lots of other free software available just look on search engines such as google

Cheers for that Ian

if you look on here later I'll put a load of links to free software when I have the time in a bit of a rush at the moment

i have a baseball bat(joke)
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Here's one link to a load of free software, and in general I agree with the site that these are the best to offer I use most of em.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm

If anyone doesn't know and wants to know more about free software
http://www.gnu.org/
http://www.fsf.org/
These are operating systems "alternatives to windows"
http://www.mandriva.com/en/download
http://www.kubuntu.org/

Thanks Ian

Hope they're of some use to you.
If you decide the free stuffs not good enough
this is supposed to be the best antivirus program there is, have never used it though I like free too much
http://www.eset.com/

Have Fun

I think cheeky is just looking for recommendations as to free Antivirus/Firewall solutions for Windows rather than a full blown induction into the GNU/FSF world and Linux!

The two free Antivirus solutions that people seem to recommend are Avast! and AVG. Personally I favour Avast! But different people like different ones. I wasn't aware until recently that the AOL scanner is based in Kapersky which everytime I check the results tables seems to come top.

For Firewalls, the easiest software one is probably Zone Alarm. Sygate used to be good but Symantec took them over and shut down development so its not really safe using a discontinued product that will never get updated. I used Kerio for a while too.

Hey Ian and Beddo .... i'm crap with computers ... all i know is my norton is due to run out in 27 days .... HHHEEELLLPPPPP

Simple version:

This will remove Norton.

Pick this or this and install the free antivirus.

Then pick this or this as a free firewall.

I'd also suggest this as an anti-spyware solution.

thanks for that Beddo