What Security Software do you Recommend?

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I'm curious, how can you make these recommendations when it seems to sound as though you are recommending them only because these are the only ones that YOU have tried and not because you have used and compared several different anti-virus or internet security products? Have you ever tested Trend-Micro AV or Int security? Or any others such as Stop Sign?

The above comment is directed to Leo, the author of the article, not to other users who made comments.
Thanks,
Papa

I can't find linkscanner on AVG Free. I have version 7.5.

Can you help?

Thanks.

to Don
linkscanner is in AVG 8, not in 7.5

Panda is a software that allows you can choose yor protection according to your computer activity and your need for security levels. I've tried many and I love the platinum version. Never have the problems that spyware causes. It's Always giving notifications of actions taken that makes me feel more secure. I've tried Avast but prefer Panda.

Personally i use comodo.com
for firewall-clamwin for antivirus.
No issues for the past 2 yrs.

Is it possible to be TOO clean with your computer? At the end of a day my husband and I run CCleaner,Spybot,Ad Aware, Spywear Terminator and Spywear Dr. ( not at same time) . People say we are silly but some programs find things others won't.

I have found that most anti-spyware is a waste of time...I've made a c: partition (8 gigs) strickly for the os and a d: partition for everything else (my docs, program files etc.) and use acronis to image my c:. Anything happens to the os and it's a simple 10 mins to reinstall the imaged os. I do use antivir for realtime antivirus and kaspersky for scanning new installs, not realtime. Online armor for firewall and that's about it. I've found adaware and spybot just too bloated and doesnt really help all that much. Oh and I also use sandboxie for questionable .exe's. Needless to say I don't worry abit.

If you use AVG Anti-Virus 8.0 and choose to turn off LinkScanner as recommended by Leo, the AVG tray icon will show an 'error' state (appears with a big red ! over it). It is possible to turn this off as follows: open the AVG user interface, from the Tools menu choose Advanced Settings... On the left-hand side click Ignore Faulty Conditions, then check LinkScanner.

NOD32 from ESET has worked well for me for a few yrs now. Only lately have they gone to the suite thing where they now have anti spyware which I am informed is not compatible with Sunbelt Software's CounterSpy. Counter Spy seemed to be a very good anti spyware program. Have also been using aSquared along with Windows Defender. I guess I got carried away and paranoid. But aSquared has become a monster bother and soI may uninstall it.

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