On Mar 10, 4:36*pm, Vic Smith wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:17:14 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing

wrote:
I've been looking around for a new anti-virus/spyware/firewall
provider as I'm highly dissatisfied with the Norton products - not so
much on the technical end, but their incessant begging for renewal
starting two months before the license is up.

I stumbled into AVG on the recommendation of a friend. She says it
works great and prefers it to Norton by a factor of 10.

Anybody else use it? *I'm leaning towards AVG, but just want another
opinion.

I've been using the following for a long time, and recommend them.
Firewall - Zone Alarm free version.
Anti-virus - AVG free version.
Neither are resource hogs, and both are easy to use and don't bother
you unless they detect something.
The Zone Alarm has informed me a few times when spyware has tried to
connect to the net. *Since the software got *identified, it was easy
to remove. *You may be surprised how many apps try to connect to the
net, for no reason that you are informed of. *Zone Alarm always tells
you when this happens, and allows you to quickly deny net access for
that instance of permanently.
The AVG has informed me a few times that a virus was either present or
about to be installed. *I seldom do scans since I've installed it.
I avoided these protections for a long time, but the net is now so
full of malicious crap you really need them to make life easy.

--Vic

I also have Ad-Aware which I scan occasionally,spybotsd14, And I've
found that AOL's spyware is supose to protect your whole computer?

well... McGafee

My son ahd me set up with Norton Office once. But don't knwo what
happend to it.