Zone alarm and kaspersky are good antiviruses which dont take more resources. And a funny thing ... I've also run win xp on 64 mb of ram .. and it worked fine for me .. hehe.

:eek: Holy crap! :eek:

I work for BGSU's Computing Connection, and I use/reccomend Zone Alarm for a firewall, and McAffee for anti-virus. Oh and Firefox for Internet browsing.
Kaspersky may be good, i've never tried it.

hmm.........

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the quality of NOD32 in this discussion. Quite frankly, it's the best performed of all personal AntiVirus products. It does carry a fee, but the cost is quite small, and the system overheads are far, far better than the more widely known products such as Nortons or McAffee. In addition, virus signature file updates are made available much more frequently than with competitors.

ZoneAlarm is a fine product, and Sygate Personal Firewall is a worthy alternative. Norton Internet Security would be about the worst of all available alternatives, perhaps, primarily because of the performance it gobbles up.

But I'd recommend that anyone with better than a dial-up Internet connection use a Gateway/Router beteen their ADSL/Cale modem and their PC, or an All-in-one Modem/Router/Firewall, so long as the one used has SPI firewall protection. They can be found quite cheaply nowadays, and check all incoming information to ensure that it is actually requested.

I also recommend that people discontinue using Internet Explorer as a web browser in favout of a better, more secure browser such as Mozilla, Firefox or Opera, regularly use Spyware detection and removal tools, and adopt safe and sensible browsing habits.

Kaspersky is an excellent product. I switched to it (corporate license, sometimes it pays to work for a reseller ) when my license for Panda expired and their support department were completely deaf to support requests getting my account reactivated (after paying of course, they still didn't respond...).

Use it in conjunction with ZoneAlarm (beware of ZA5 though, it blocks some things it shouldn't even when you specifically tell it not to, I stick with ZA4.5 for now).

Ditching IE isn't necessary at all unless you want to be politically correct and show how much you hate Microsoft.
If you turn off automatic execution of ActiveX you're safe (and don't just click OK to everything that wants to run of course).
1) don't visit warez sites, they're hothouses for all kinds of nastiness (plus using warez hurts the software development community badly as well as being illegal...)
2) don't install anything you don't know in advance what it will do
3) don't open email attachments you didn't expect you'd get (even from people you know!)
4) ditch those p2p programs, run legal software and play legal music and movies
5) be careful visiting porn sites :mrgreen:

Hello,

I am currently evaluating Sophos on my Windoze box, my Linux boxen, and my Macintosh. So far, so good.

I also believe in ditching IE. Go for Mozilla Firefox, or consider Opera or Casino. Safari works nice too. IE has a certain set of standards defined that are not platform independant. I would like sites that examine their logs to know that there are other browsers out there than the Redmond Explorer.

Christian

thought i'd share a nice article that i read this morning. i'm so fed up of these antivirus software companies making way too much money on our back...

http://blog.jeefy.com/antivirus-or-internet-security/

nice site by the way!

why awaken a thread from 04?

and a link that has more typeo's that my posts .lol

I do quite like BitDefender.

Doesn't slow down the PC like Norton and McAffee do. Plus it is A LOT more powerful. Quite cheap too.

What more could you want?