Anti Virus Replacements

[laura_seabrook]

I've been using a "free" copy of ZoneAlarm for the last year or so. However, as the trial period was over I decided to use some other software instead. I don't have a credit card and renewing ZoneAlarm was expensive and hard to do. I tried renewing it by joining SnapFish but even there, I can't get "free" photo prints without a credit card (so no Zone Alarm renewal).

At the moment I have bot Avast! and Comodo installed. There's a bit of overlap and potential for them to fight each other - Comodo, which I installed second, found all the quarantined stuff that Avast! had already moved, and wanted to move them again! I got Comodo because it has a proper firewall, but maybe I don't need to run the anti-virus component while I have Avast! running.

Any ideas on this? Which Free anti-virus and Firewall would/do you run under Windows XP, and why?

Comments

[faffinoodle.livejournal.com]

Doesn't the free ZA last for as long as you want??
I had ZA for years and it was a free edition... Prolly changed it?? I also used Ad-Aware & Spybot and they were the best in my opinion.
Having Vista is great because I've never had a virus.
You should ask at Uni though if you would get a discount at the Co-Op book store for software, or even officeworks. I used to get heaps of discounts.

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

It kept on bugging out if I didn't pick the Trial version.

[faffinoodle.livejournal.com]

Typical... I had problems with it in the end.