Re: Internet protection

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"Eustace" <emfril@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:#Wo0kGV#JHA.3544@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I just uninstalled the McAffee Security Center that came with my laptop and installed AVG antivirus instead. Is there anything else I need to do to complete the basic protection of my system?

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AVG free is a fairly good antivirus program and should suffice with your browsing as long as you practice "safe-surfing." No antivirus program will protect you if you do not practice safe-surfing. There are a lot of people who also like Avast. In it's earlier versions, I had issues with updating on two of my 5 computers and so dumped it for AVG which ran without problems.

You need to ensure that your Vista firewall is functioning. It, again will normally be enough to protect from the hacker's attempts to infiltrate your system. There are free firewalls available to replace the Vista one if you decide to go that route.
I use Zone Alarm from CheckPoint software: http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-us/zonealarm-pc-security-free-firewall.htm on all my systems as it is free and it does a good job of blocking outsiders. The only issue I have is the occasional failure of the program to remember approved use of the intra or internet by some of my programs.

You also need to occasionally run mal-ware checkers. I use Spybot search and destroy, Malware bytes and Ad-aware which can all be downloaded and installed from these sites:

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
http://www.malwarebytes.org/
http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

There are others out there but again, be careful what you get and where you get it from.

I heartily agree that you need to uninstall McAfee as it, as well as Norton's programs, are resource hogs. I have always had issues with McAfee not finding malware that even AVG found.

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