posted by [identity profile] mitchy.livejournal.com at 02:20pm on 05/05/2007
I've heard good things about Zone Alarm, 's true. However, that link doesn't mention anything about it being free, just that you can try it for 15 days before buying. Which I may well consider but I can't afford it right now. Hopefully, turning off the POP3 server option I mentioned in my reply to [livejournal.com profile] bibliogirl down there *points* will solve the problem for now :)

What's a "squared anti-malware" program when it's at home? Anti-malware I get but...squared? :)
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posted by [personal profile] jebbypal at 02:26pm on 05/05/2007
Heh... no "a-squared" is the company name.

http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/

It's basically an anti-virus, anti-malware program. It scans for problematic file traces as well as possibly malicious browser cookies and all.

I upped to the paid version when I got rid of asquared due to the firewall incompatibility. I forget the exact difference of the free versus paid versions, but the free one did flag several "key stroke grabbing" programs that had gotten inserted onto my computer back when I was using macafee.

I believe if you look around through the zone alarm multitude of google links you'll find a fully free firewall. that or you can keep a certain level of the firewall even after the expiration --- I have several friends that run the free version only as their firewalls.
 
posted by [identity profile] adelpha.livejournal.com at 02:27pm on 05/05/2007
There's a free version, and a Pro version. I think the Pro gives you a few other bits and bobs, but the freebie does the whole firewall thing well.

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