<p>can someone recommend me an internet security/antivirus software package?</p>
<p>anything but norton please...</p>
<p>Avast is pretty good.</p>
<p>I would like to see what others use too.</p>
<p>AVG is decent.</p>
<p>nod32 is the best antivirus I've ever encountered. I've also heard good things about Antivir and AVG. Avast! isn't that good, in my opinion.</p>
<p>omg stay away from 'zone alarm security'... that thing crashed my computer and gave me the blue screen of death!</p>
<p>or it could have been 'system mechanic 7.0' that i downloaded too. one or the other or both or maybe neither.</p>
<p>Kaspersky Internet Security.</p>
<p>-The Secure Coot66</p>
<p>nod 32 is a really good one</p>
<p>McAfee .</p>
<p>I've had bad experiences with Norton & McAfee in the past.. both involving numerous annoying error messages for everything I do.</p>
<p>I used to use AVG free edition & had no problems, but now it's pay-only - but should still be good. I use PC-cillin now & have had no problems. Also heard good things about AVAST</p>
<p>The PC at my family's house has Norton and McAfee and I hate it for the same reasons pearlinthemist listed.</p>
<p>AVG is still free....</p>
<p><a href="http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1%5B/url%5D">http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1</a></p>
<p>Open source is the way to go if you don't want spyware/adware.</p>
<p>Honestly, I 100% recommend Linux. <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.ubuntu.com/</a> provides a 100% free product that is open source, the easiest switching process, and I know of ABSOLUTELY NOTHING you can do on Windows that you can't on Linux with the example of tax programs (but you can have both operating systems on your computer and use Windows for that purpose).</p>
<p>Linux is amazing but not incredibly common among PC users. For this reason, I know of no viruses or spyware that affect it! After all, most virus writers want to affect the greatest number of people possible, and a significant number of them just hate Microsoft. You can still download antivirus programs if you want, but there's really no need.</p>
<p>KaiserMonkey: Play cutting age games that rely on DirectX with excellent performance. Can't do that on Linux. (And that's just one example)</p>
<p>1of42: virtualization</p>
<p>@1of42: I have to admit I haven't tried that.</p>
<p>There is Wine if you need to run Windows programs.</p>
<p><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=335336%5B/url%5D">http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=335336</a> <-- DirectX Wine.</p>
<p>iostream, KaiserMonkey: The performance is crappy. Reference countless technological blogs. I personally had a friend tell me that Wine could match Windows native performance on games, and proceeded to test a number of games on Wine, with sub par performance.</p>
<p>As for Linux not having viruses, I have heard of at least a couple. Linux definitely has better security, because it doesn't dumb it down in favor of ease of use, but as more and more people use the OS, virus numbers will increase, though probably not to the same levels as XP. The fact remains, though: be smart with Windows and you'll never get infected (I know I haven't).</p>
<p>I was wondering if anyone could recommend another free anti virus program besides AVG?</p>
<p>Avast</p>
<p>10 char</p>
<p>with rebates and such a lot of anti-viruses can be free or very close to it. It's just that the anti-virus subscription only last for X amount of years. </p>
<p>I'd def. pick nod32 as the best anti-virus program with pc-cillin second.</p>
<p>I use Ad-aware, Avast and Zonealarm. They work perfectly fine for me... and along with that I use firefox browser, it blocks all the ads and keeps away spyware.</p>