Reccomend me an antivirus...

[Stalk]

..with all the email scanning and firewall things please?
I am fairly computer illitarate, just use it for browsing and banking (thats banking not browsing and wa.....). Currently using norton but cpu consumption is high with the ccSvsht.exe sucking most of it up and causing immense frustration. Computer runs slow because of this, discs always running at full pelt.

The computer is a Hewlet packard pavillion AMD Athalon xp1800+ 1.53 GHz 992 MB ram with microsoft XP Home edition version 2002 service pack 3.

Thanks in advance
Stalk

[bazza]

Comodo Internet Security for Windows

https://personalfirewall.comodo.com/free-download.html
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[shotgun]

Avira-low reource use, free to download, does a good job.

[stinkwheel]

Use linux instead of windows and never have to worry about antivirus/firewall crap again.

There are lots of sites that will tell you how to give it a try without having to make a permanant changeover.

The only good reasons I can see for using windows are for gaming or if you have to use a particular program that simply isn't available on linux.

If you just do browsing and banking, you don't need windows.

Ubuntu is the most popular version of linux and probably the most user friendly. You can burn a live CD which will let you run a simplified version of it without having to install. You can also install it to dual-boot (so you get an option of windows or ubuntu when you turn the computer on). https://www.ubuntu.com/

I bet installing ubuntu is easier than getting rid of Norton

EDIT: Posted from my 11 year old Compaq Presario S4000NX with 2.4GHz celeron, 1Gb RAM, Nvidia GeForce 5200 graphics card. Running on Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope". No issues whatsoever with running speed unless using HIGHLY intensive graphics applications. Also running full-on "compiz-fusion" 3D desktop environment (I'll take the pepsi challenge with windows 7 any day).

I wonder if you could upgrade your CPU? You should be able to get a much faster one than you have for not too much money if it'll fit your motherboard.
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[Ed Case]

I've used AVG Free for the last three years, Great, no problems at all.

[Glenben92]

Avast Home Edition (available from download.com. Completely free, completely self maintaining, easily the best antivirus out there. kicks the shit out of AVG. NEVER had any trouble with it, used it on literally about 20 different computers and never let me down (i build computers i'm not just collecting them )
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[TomCB]

Microsoft Security Essentials.
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[crazymotorbik...]

Hey,

I changed from AVG to Rising Antivirus; Works great and i've not had any problems since.

Cheers,
Shaun R.

[MattHirst]

[chrisw]

Yes, VirtualBox supports Win7.

There is also plenty of torrent software available for Linux, if memory serves there is one included in the default installation of Ubuntu.

[supZ]

NOD32 + malware bytes

nuff said.
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[Inkognito]

Installing and using linux when you don't know a lot about this stuff is probably not a wise idea.

I tried linux a while back and i had no clue how to do stuff or how to install things etc.
Think it was black box or something.. can't remember but when my friend was showing me he was using an awful lot of command line stuff and there's no way in hell i can remember all that... i don't even want to to be honest. I did that with DOS when i was young. Now i just want easy stuff

Is ubunto the same or is it more windows like. I mean for installing and running things.

For antivirus i've use F-Secure and Avira with no problems

[Pernig]

[Inkognito]

Hmm might be time to try linux again then.

[doggone]

I've been playing about with dual booting ubuntu also, on an old laptop.
I like how you can now install it almost like any other application and it creates a virtual disc rather than having to actually burn it to a disc or USB stick.
https://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/windows-installer

When I previously tried it 5 or more years back it was off-putting as mentioned above with command prompts needed, and changing the boot order to a disc, rather than just selecting one or the other as it boots.
The desktop is not that different to windows - or at any rate as a long term windows user I found no problems getting most stuff I use working.

[Asharin]

I used to use Ubuntu, but nowadays I use PCLinuxOS, it may have an unfortunate name, lol, but it's a rolling release so I much prefer it.

That being said I may try Linux Mint, Debian edition soon.

/geekmodeoff

[Dazbo666]

I've used AVG Free for a number of years with no problems
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[RussG]

Avast if you want it for free

F secure if you don't mind paying.
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[Stevie GooGs]

My mate got a fecking stinker of a virus, ive got the computer here to fix, he had spybot and avg and still got feckered. Don't get me wrong im not sure how often he ran spybot but AVG was always on.

After speaking to spybot they think its a rootkit, it wont allow any anti-virus/anti-spyware to be installed or ran.
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