Good Combination

Can someone please list a set of free protection softwares for your pc that would make a very good combination in the protection of your pc?

Antivirus - Choose between Avast & AVG.

I recommend Avast because AVG has heuristics that detects many legitimate items as malware. It has also blocked some websites and mark them as a 'phising site' even though they are not and even after adding them to a exclusion list (tested by me). I remember once when it detected it's files as a virus!

Ok, so why Avast? Because it disinfects viruses instead of deleting them. It's heuristics are also good and I have never came across a false positive.


Firewall - Zonealarm or Comodo Firewall. I recommend Comodo because it's light on the system.


Anti spyware - Spybot or Superantispyware. I recommend SuperAntiSpyware.

well thank you...

time to get downloading...

Zone Alarm Security Suite
include:

Antivirus
Firewall
Antispyware

is that free and how big is the file?

Yeah, Security Suite is free. Zone alarm PRO isn't. 36 Mb

I'm using Comodo Firewall and Windows Defender

for some reason, my Windows Defender does not update.

Is there any free download accelerator?

Yeah. Free Download Manager and Flash Get.

FlashGet here


FDM here

Flashget has not been updating their site for the english version but 2.x versions are out as well as the older 1.x from their homepage.

Antivirus: avast or avg
firewall: comodo
anti-spyware: super snti spyware or malware byte's anti malware or spybot search and destroy