Junior Member
Hi,
I used the Norton antivirus and firewall programme for few years, and I found that it slowes down my PC, because it is very invasive I think. Changed to PC-Cillin and it seems that even known threats sometimes will pass this protection, as well as the technical support is useless. Can someone please recommend a good, reliable antivirus and firewall program? This is for use on one PC only - Windows XP Pro.
Thanks,
AKUK
Elite Member
Avg anti-virus and Sygate Personal Firewall are both free and come highly recommended.
Junior Member
Many thanks, I'll try thisOriginally Posted by Nirvana
akuk
Full Member
Hi DAL
i had avg earlier. my system got infected with a boot sector virus. avg detected it, but didnt do anything(i did not have a startup disk.) also, usually avg detects an infected file, but doesnt clean it, it quarentines it, (as good as gettin it deleted). now, i believe norton also heals the file.
can you tell me what is the basis of these actions, ie when can a file be healed and when is it deleted?
what is avg's performance with regards to healing files compared to norton?
thx a lot
Junior Member
I had exactly the same problem, after looking around I found the 'Norton intrernet security', I had Norton in hte past for many years and I removed it, but this one seems to do the job. It gives a quiet flexable option to configure any part of the protection components (firewall, antispam etc.)
