Where can I get reliable security software for free?
For the basic web user, there is alot of free software available that is sufficient for your security needs. Besides with many low end computers, even with 512 MB of RAM Norton and McAfee are too much for the system. Personally I havent had any luck with McAfee and wouldnt use it even for free. For anti-virus we used to always recommend AVG Free which was from the best basic anti-virus around, although the interface is confusing and is unneccessarily complicated. To download go to AVG. The free version doesnt let you change the scanning options much, as opposed to the Pro version. Recently though, we have found AVG 8.5 to be causing alot of hang ups and serious slows downs, even on decent computers. We have switched to Avast free for now. You must register to use it free for 14 months. Make sure to run scans weekly as the free version doesnt have a scheduler. You can run quick scans by sceduling through Task Scheduler in Windows but its a pain. For a firewall, ZoneAlarm is very good. W
