what is the best anti virus for windows xpp? is more than one anti spy system better?

Answer 1

I use one anti-virus but more than one anti-spyware. For spyware I used Ad-Aware SE Plus and also Spybot S&D because each one finds things that the other misses.

Answer 2

You dont need more than 1 anti-virus software. As more thasn 1 and they can start having conflicts with each other and messing up. Listen to these people tho, lavalys ad-aware Se is a great program, Windows defender is a great program. Never used the AVG, I use Nortons at my house, and on my laptop I get mcAfee free from school.

Answer 3

I like mc cafee for ant-virus. you should have a least 2 anti=spy programs as 1 alone never gets all the spyware out there. spybot search and destroy and adaware are 2 very good programs they are free.update and run atl easte monthly. check this site for some great free learning and don't forget to search the tips section for tons of good stuff. www.komnado.com
don't forget a firewall also, zonealarm is the best free on out there.

Answer 4

I have prepared this to aid you. Topics covered are: Anti virus, Anti spy ware, Browsers, e-mail, Word processors, Database, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Drawings and Photo manipulations. All programmes described are free to use, some even for commercial use.

Antiviral.

AVG free. Excellent protection available from: http://www.Grisoft.com

Don't use two antiviral products together as they may be incompatible. If your Antiviral trial has run out, then remove product from your computer and get the AVG installed.

Anti-spyware

Essential products are: Adaware SE from: http://www.lavasoft.com

Spybot SD http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html

Spywareblaster http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Windows Defender - from Microsoft downloads.

Office Applications

Open Office has an extremely good free to use and distribute product at http://www.openoffice.org

It contains programmes fully functional in Word-processing, Database, Spreadsheets, Drawing and Presentation. It looks and feels like Microsoft Office and can even make PDF's

Photo-manipulations

For ease of use and management of your photo files try Kodak easyshare software http://www.kodak.com

or Picasso. http://.picasa.google.com/

For advanced and fully functional photographic manipulation gimp2 is very similar to Photoshop and is available from http://gimp.org

Browsers and E-mail programmes.

Can recommend Firefox for browsing and has many safety features installed and is self updating and for a general e-mail programme, Thunderbird is very good. Go to:

http://www.mozilla.com/products/

Fun and helpful programmes

Have a look at Calendar Magic, http://www.stokepoges.plus.com/calendar.htm


it has lots of Scientific, Geometry, Factor and Expression calculators as well as Global distances, Sun and Moon Data, a Pregnancy Calculator, Time Data and Alarm clocks as well as an extremely comprehensive range of Calendars in about 27 different formats from Afghanistan to Vietnamese, including Chinese and Hindu.

C Cleaner.http://www.ccleaner.com/

This will tell you a lot about what is on your computer, such as running programmes,cookies, History, settings etc. and will help you clean up and remove unwanted items. Be careful how you use it as it is a very powerful programme and you should read the help index before you do anything with it.

Hope this information is of help to you and others.

Answer 5

AVG... its free, is stable, its honast and its upgrade able, and its free 100% working no limations. and in many respects it better then NOrton or MacAffe (MacAcrappy). Its an under ground one, but its very good!! GO to www.download.com and type in AVG, look for the free version.... it should be the 2nd or 3rd option. GOOD LUCK

Answer 6

Here is my recipe for a safe computer -

Download AVG anti Virus free here –
http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/AVG-Anti-Virus-Free-Edition/3000-2239_2-10503939.html?tag=lst-0-2

Download Microsoft Defender free here - http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

Download AdAware free here –
http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_2-10399602.html?tag=lst-0-1

With those three programs your computer will be pretty secure from viruses, ad ware, spyware & malware.

Answer 7

i think avg free is great its free and you get free updates and everything just go to yahoo and type in free avg it should be the first one then download it it is great hope this helps