Thread: Internet Security / Antivirus

Originally Posted by barryj

I installed AVG free edition earlier this week. Since then I have received 6 spam emails. AVG is the only company I have given my new email address to since changing it due to an enormous amount of spam mail.

software_innovations@lists.initialbest.com is the mob sending me the spam mail. I will telephone AVG in Australia next week and ask them if they pass on email addresses.

Be warned about 'free' products.

Also be warned about giving out your 'real' email address - use a less important address like a hotmail account for signing up to things over the internet. You will still get your confirmation emails but you won't be bothered by spam in your daily account.

BTW I've used AVG Free for the past two years and have just installed the latest version 7.5 which may be the last free version available for home users. I also use the AVG Anti-Spyware freebie along with Spybot "Search and Destroy", Adaware SE Personal, SpywareBlaster and A-Squared Free all of which I update and run weekly. I also use some of the free online scans such a Trend Micro's Housecall. All of these things are available at no cost for the home user.

Originally Posted by DiscoDave

Also be warned about giving out your 'real' email address - use a less important address like a hotmail account for signing up to things over the internet. You will still get your confirmation emails but you won't be bothered by spam in your daily account.

BTW I've used AVG Free for the past two years and have just installed the latest version 7.5 which may be the last free version available for home users. I also use the AVG Anti-Spyware freebie along with Spybot "Search and Destroy", Adaware SE Personal, SpywareBlaster and A-Squared Free all of which I update and run weekly. I also use some of the free online scans such a Trend Micro's Housecall. All of these things are available at no cost for the home user.

Yes I agree with not using our real email address but I have registered programs in the past using my hotmail account and never received confirmation via hotmail.

further to what discodave said, good option.
we all know no one single solution works 100% you have to use several products to be best protected.

Bloody Computers !!!

Thanks for all the info. guys. Heaps of reading for me now so I'll suck it and see. If I do renew Nortons, I'll shop around first, thanks for the tip NM.
Cheers,
John

Originally Posted by JES

Thanks for all the info. guys. Heaps of reading for me now so I'll suck it and see. If I do renew Nortons, I'll shop around first, thanks for the tip NM.
Cheers,
John

just be aware, a lot of the new protections are missing in the old version, that why it is cheap :P

Anti Virus? what's that?????
Oh, Forgot I'm running Linux.
But for my Xp partition I have been using Trend Micro PCillan internet security.
It is less of a resource hog like what I had when Nortons was on my machine.
Been using it for 3 years now , Blocks and detects lots of virus on MS. Actually I found it picked up a couple of viruses that my Nortons had let through. Updates are regular too

Just installed a new PC today for my in laws with Vista as the OS.
AVG Anti virus seems to work OK with Vista
For Spyware and Firewall we used the ones that came with Vista.

I'm also interested. My Nortons licence runs out in less than a month. I am annoyed by the very slow start-up of my laptop which runs Norton Internet Security.

Ron