Free Computer Security
By fergus
@fergus (817)
Ireland
April 22, 2009 2:19pm CST
Hi myloters, So what do you myloters think of the free Security websites?
I realy love them i am useing AVG free and it works great i never have any problems with my computer. When i first started i use to buy my security for about $60
and i use to get the same things in the package as i do know for free.How do you myloters feel or do yous buy your security for your computers and what one do yous think is best. I would love to read your views about this discusstions.
4 responses
@SantiagoSky (29)
• United States
22 Apr 09
Oh I too enjoy using AVG free, but I must say that the latest updated version is very strange. When I downloaded it, it was in german and I had to manually change it to english about seven times every time I would turn on the computer. But it indeed has saved my computer many a times when I had a virus on it that was literally reinstalling itself by the second and AVG caught it each time. I also find Norton Antivirus very useful, but the most popular with me is Malwarebytes. It works great and will remove any malware killing you system. I recommend it with five stars. Great discussion by the way, I enjoyed this one.
@fergus (817)
• Ireland
22 Apr 09
Hi SantiagoSky, Happy to hear you us AVG i agree with you about ther update that is a bit strange but i never had that problem yet. thanks for the warning and i am pleased you injoyed this discuusstion i enjoyed writeing this. I heard about Malwarebytes but i never used it i will have a look at it and thanks for telling me about it take care and thanks.
@roxannekight (67)
• United States
22 Apr 09
I have used AVG free for many years. And I love it. I tell everyone about it. Although I have had a few viruses that AVG has not been able to get rid of completely at first, I find that if I update and then run the scan that it fixes any problems. I give it an A+
@xPeriencer (5)
• United States
24 Apr 09
I am not a big fan of Windows (I use Linux most of the time) but I did buy Symantic AntiVirus for my Windows partition. Downloading free programs for Windows bugs me because it has so many security holes. (with the exception of major programs like Firefox, iTunes, etc.)
The full scan found a few viruses which were removed (I constantly update the definition file and scan it). The reason why Linux doesn't have antivirus software is primarily because it is free but also because the viruses on Linux are nothing compared to the viruses for Windows. Nothing catastrophic can be done to Linux unless you are logged in as root and run random commands or if you install a package from an outside source.
