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14th February 2009, 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by djlen  I do not have an adequate fire wall (mircosoft's) currently in my view, and | You have XP and that firewall is as good or better than ZA.
If, and I mean IF, I were to use another firewall it would be comodo and it
is absolutely free also. But XP firewall is more than adequate with my other apps.
I have used limewire and never had a problem...NEVER. 
djlen, I see you are all over the place and getting slanted views from varying angles about AVG8.
Guess you'll just have to go with it, or not, and form your own opinions.
Good luck.
Last edited by Gunner; 14th February 2009 at 05:34 PM.
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14th February 2009, 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by djlen I didn't mean to get repeditive here with posts, but seem to be asking similar questions on two different threads, so I've got my answers here regarding anti spyware.
I do not have an adequate fire wall (mircosoft's) currently in my view, and Blackmirror mentions Zone Alarm so I'm going to go with that.
Last question, I promise: I use LimeWire P2P often, only for music (anything else is very dangerous to download). Can Zone Alarm be configured so that it won't interfere with LimeWire?
Len | The XP firewall is ok, but it wouldn't hurt to have a third party one instead. If you're behind a router (I think I remember you saying this) make sure the firewall is activated, because hardware firewalls are very good.
Dude, anything is dangerous to download on Limewire, and music is no exception. It is also illegal to download copyrighted files for free unless the file author gives their consent, so we do not condone such activity here, but ultimately I can't tell you what to do.
Zone Alarm, however, can be set up for every program on your PC individually to whether to block it or allow it access etc.
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15th February 2009, 10:35 AM
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Guess what? Just had a system booked in (yes I know it is a sunday) which has a virus which AVG failed to see and which has trashed some files in the system32 folder - don't know what it is yet.
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15th February 2009, 11:06 AM
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Might as well give the PC some Nurofen mate, for all the good AVG is doing.
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15th February 2009, 11:29 AM
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Glad you agree - not going to mess with this one and will bin the AVG and install Kaspersky instead, once I have repaired the damaged file structure, that is!
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19th January 2012, 04:55 PM
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Check the dates dude - that last post was three years ago!
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24th January 2012, 03:37 PM
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Seek Greeks bearing gifts and beware the boojum, O beamish boy.
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30th January 2012, 03:30 PM
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You get what you pay for, as my gran used to say. I have come across a whole fill of situations over the last few several weeks where AVG has never function effectively and more intense, never secure the visitor's program from malware. Not in my publication.. ..
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30th January 2012, 03:37 PM
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I concur - but I would add that Avira Free edition is probably the best of the freebies.
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8th February 2012, 05:00 PM
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You get what you pay for, as my gran used to say. I have come across a whole fill of situations over the last few several weeks where AVG has never perform effectively and more intense, never secure the visitor's program from malware. Not in my publication ....
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8th February 2012, 05:23 PM
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Your gran was clearly a wise old bird! Excuse the familiarity!
Current darling of the industry is Trend Micro and at about 19 sterling for 3 machines (on Amazon) is a very good deal.
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