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Meandtheboys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 2979
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 3:09 pm: |     |
Keep getting this message saying it's time to renew. These are updates I have to pay for. I have Spybot, and perhaps a couple others. Is it worth it to renew? |
Smarty Jones
Citizen
Username: Birdstone
Post Number: 343
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 3:24 pm: | |
If your provider is AOL or Verizon, AOL offers automatically updating McAfeee (free) and Verizon now offers Nortons or McAfee for free in their new Yahoo/Verizon option.
If it's another provider, I'm sure they have their version offered for free as well. |
sac
Supporter
Username: Sac
Post Number: 3129
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 4:54 pm: | |
You definitely should have up-to-date antivirus software (most likely Norton or McAfee) in addition to spybot.
If you can get it for free, that's great. |
Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 2320
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 4:59 pm: | |
Meand, Personaly, I switched to one of the free AV products (AVG from Grisoft). It's highly rated, and the only thing differnt from the pay version is the ability to fine tune update scheduling. |
Jelly
Citizen
Username: Jelly
Post Number: 15
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 8:04 pm: | |
If it's not free - you can usually buy McAfee or other virus software at softwareoutlet.com for less than the McAfee/Norton etc. renewal price. |
monster
Supporter
Username: Monster
Post Number: 2113
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 10:28 pm: | |
Comcast gives it for free too if I'm not mistaken.
Just checked, here's the page, http://www.comcast.net/security/mcafee/
But I don't really care for McAfee and generally don't suggest it.
Below you will find a list of links for tools I use, and recommend.
http://www.ewido.net
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
http://safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/download/?
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sgdownload.html
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/downloads.html
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Meandtheboys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 2983
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 10:44 pm: | |
Thanks all. And thank you too Monster for all the great links. Could you do me a favor and just pick one or two of those you think are best and tell me what they are? That's a pretty long list and I wouldn't have a clue where to start.
(I just love that little blue guy, he makes me happy!) |
Just The Aunt
Supporter
Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 3977
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 12:47 am: | |
Smarty
What is the Yahoo/Verizon option? |
monster
Supporter
Username: Monster
Post Number: 2114
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 2:43 am: | |
see this link, /discus/messages/3137/101898.html?1139088299
for a start. |
Smarty Jones
Citizen
Username: Birdstone
Post Number: 348
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 3:54 pm: | |
Verizon just unveiled this late last year...if you get DSL through Verizon, log into your Verizon home page, and there's a huge Link talking about the Yahoo/Verizon option. You download the software for free, and you basically get Yahoo "premium service" for free, which includes regular updating Virus Software/Firewall.
I didn't do it because we do it through AOL. But it seemed like a good freebie since most people probably use Verizon in this town. |
Gatica™
Citizen
Username: Katracho
Post Number: 274
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 6:35 pm: | |
You can also go here: Google Pack
Google offers some free tools, including Norton AntiVirus 2005 Special Edition. You can remove/add the tools that you want from this free package. |
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