cheap computer maintenance

[skittlesmcduck]

I am a computer buff, so I may not know much about socks and other stuff, but when it comes to computers I can help out.

A free antivirus that i would highly recommend is avg found at free.grisoft.com.

Up at my local school we use the paid version and I use the free version on all four of my computers. It works very well and does not bog the system down.

An excellent free firewall can be found at

www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp

It is a bit annoying at first until you get the computer profile built up, but after that it is fairly invisible.

As far a spyware goes I use Windows defender. Its free and seems to work well enough. No spyware program really works all that well .

[Connie]

Great infor! Thanks.. I started using AVG this year when my McAffee subscription was up and I am very happy with it! I use adaware for spyware.. do you think defender is better?

[kelbell]

I use Hitnam pro which incorprates the adaware program among others. I like it better than windows.

[Connie]

Another one I haven't heard of.. is Hitman a virus protector as well then?

[kelbell]

no, I use AVG for my virus protection. but hitman is great against everything else.

[Connie]

Got it! thanks!