Anti-virus/firewall/spyware

[si-skyline]

NOD32!! one of the best antivirus programs alive.. google it and read reviews and stuff.. and its fairly cheeper then others.. it cant be bought in shops its too small

http://www.eset.com/ and goto the download page to get a 30 day free trial!

oh they also have good saving on multi computer and multi year offers and also support servers

[gntlkilr]

Problem #1: Privacy Act. The authorities cant legaly monitor what you download. Anyone who has been caught downloading illeagal material got caught in some other way. Child porn sting operations and so on.

Problem #2: Net Nutrallity: ISP's cant legaly block anything on thier systems intended for the general public. If they could, they would have blocked bit torrents & P2P programs years ago.

Problem #3: Hustle & Flow: Assuming the Authorities were to break the law to catch illegal downlaoders. No program could stealth you. Everything you download goes through your ISP. Which is where they would look first. Making any "stealthing" program you have utterly usless. Your only real defence would be to destroy the information before they came to your door. After all, if your not in possesion of illegal material, you've done nothing wrong...

You are right that the FBI is more intrested in catching Piracy Profiteers than some 13 year old kid who illegaly downloads his favorite metallica tracks.

-Rep for discussing illegal activities on thies forums.
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My security programs:

Ad-aware SE Professional
Norton AV 2007
Registry Mechanic Pro
GiPo Remove On Boot
Sygate Personal Firewall Pro (the company was bought out by norton and is now what norton uses)
CCleaner

I've never had any problems while using this suite of programs.

I used to use Sygate and norton Corp (USAF gives norton antivirus corp to any military member), but the firewall doesn't support Gig-E. Now I just use zonealarm security sweet. I run Ad Aware every month or so, it never finds anything zone alarm didn't. Zonealarm supports Gig-E, file sharing easily, works well with my linux hardware firewall, I like it.

[Crazy Buddhist]

dan,

I don't believe its possible to secure a windows PC for free anymore and explained why in this recent thread on the same subject.

Until six months ago I was using all the stuff mentioned in this thread. I have for years written guides on securing your PC for free which were widely read and recommended most of the above solutions.

Now, I recommend you use a paid for product. Personally I use Kaspersky Internet Security Suite.

[calumc]

I use iptables, nothing more nothing less.

[Crazy Buddhist]

I don't believe its possible to secure a windows PC for free anymore

I use iptables, nothing more nothing less.

In the current climate my advice is go for a paid product or go Linux. I intend to switch to Linux by the end of the year for everything and have one non-internet accessable windows machine for the stuff I have to run on that OS.

... headed in exactly the same direction calum