Anti-Virus, Anti-Porn, Anti-Spyware, and Fire-Wall Programs

Here is a list of some useful programs that will help you protect your computer to the best of its abilities.

One of my favorites is AVG by Grisoft. Unlike Norton, it is not expensive at all! It is FREE! And AVG actually does something about viruses. One of my friends recently purchased the Premium version of Norton Antivirus. After a few weeks he discovered that he had a virus. How he discovered it was through Norton. And that is about all it does. It discovers your viruses and then tells you about them. It is basically like "oh hey, yea we found a virus in your computer,... um we can't do anything about it, so um yea here is a link to our site that possibly might help anyways good luck." To say the least he wasn't too happy with Norton. Basically all Norton does is tell you that you have a virus, not fix it. Most of the virus-writers today are smart and know how to bypass Norton, so basically you spent all that money on a program that will just tell you what you already know, that you have a virus. With AVG it will actually help you to remove it, quarantine it, or vault it. You may choose from these different choices depending on the type of file that the virus has infected. In conclusion to anti-virus software, AVG is free and useful while Norton is expensive and pointless. Use AVG

Anyway, this is a list of programs that are great for anti-virus, spyware, porn, and firewalls.

Anti-Virus
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- AVG
o http://free.grisoft.com/
- AntiVir
o http://www.free-av.com/



Fire-Wall
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- SoftPerfect
o http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall
- Zone Alarm
o http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company
/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp




Anti-Spyware
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- SpywareGuard
o http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html
- SpywareBlaster
o http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html



Anti-Porn
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- Spybot-S&D
o http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html
- Parental Filter 0.23
o http://www.download.com/Parental-Filter/3640-2162_4-10425523.html?tag=tab_ur