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I just got a friends computer free of over 200 nasties. His computer had a very outdated mcafee so I got rid of it. This person is very computer illiterate and I’m looking for a good free firewall and antivirus to install for him. I’m thinking about installing AVG for antivirus and Comodo for firewall. Will these 2 programs work without my friend having to do anything with them? I don’t want to have to spend the rest of my life trying to help him and clean his computer out every other day.
If needed to know his computer is a Dell Dimension 3000 and it has xp home sp2 installed.
Brian
I would install Avast
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-a...
instead of AVG...no maintenance needed at all. Set it to do a bootscan on reboot.I've been using that with Comodo for quite some time now....work GREAT together.
I dropped AVG a long way back when it had up-dating problems and have never looked back.
Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results as it will help others.
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Do you have to train Comodo like you do for Sygate and or Kaskersky? I'm looking for a firewall I can install and don't have to do anything to it.
Brian
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it has a feature on it to scan all applications...They might on a few instances have to accept things like IE and Firefox...the only firewall that i know of that is the least cumbersome is the SP2 Firewall.
Also on AVG you will have to set scheduled scans and up-dates which you won't have to do on Avast.
Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results as it will help others.
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Ok, I will install avast and comodo and hopefully they will work for him without him calling me up every 5 minutes.
Brian
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Also I would suggest spyware terminator which also works in realtime...
http://www.spywareterminator.com/
That pretty well covers most bases.Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results as it will help others.
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Well I thought that computer was clean but Avast found a lot more viruses. The Hijack log shows nothing though. I used ewido (actually AVG anti spyware) and AVG to clean it then removed them and installed Avast and Comodo.
Brian
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Thanks for posting back, hopefully all will be well now.
Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results as it will help others.
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No surprise that Avast found stuff that AVG missed.
With Comodo the only time that I get prompts with my programns is if I install something new or update an existing program.
You can leave Component Monitor in learning mode.
HTH,
JB
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