PC Upgrades

Excellent Free Programs To help Protect Your Computer


Avira Antivirus
My favorite Free Anvirus which is highly efficient at scanning, and removing viruses trojan you name it. Its protection is flawless although some people say it detects maplestory as a trojan, i cannot be 100% certain of this since i don’t play maplestory. But this would rank as 1st on my free antivirus list.

Avast Anti-Virus Home Edition
My 2nd favorite anti-virus program in the free market, Avast provides many features programs like Norton or Kaspersky have, for a free price. Avast has 7 different real-time shields for different functions, such as E-mail. The only hassle is that the shields drain quite a bit of memory, and you have to sign up for a free yearly subscription, which, even though is free, is annoying.

ZoneAlarm Basic Firewall
Loads better than that Windows Firewall crap. ZoneAlarm protects both incoming and outgoing Internet traffic, and has saved me from a few extreme situations Windows Firewall wouldnt have saved me from, such as an invasion of my computer through IE. However, it drains at least 30 MB of memory solely for the engine, and not to mention the firewall itself. Its a good deal, however.

Superantispyware FREE
This is one of the top Antispyware now in modern times. It has an excellent scanning system, gets rid of the malaware, tracking cookie etc, it provides a registry scan too. It also has one of the highest detection rates for a free Antispyware program.

Malwaryebytes Antimalware
Another one of those must have programs this small compact program is such an excellent scanner that removes malware one bit at a time and seriously its one of the best tools ive ever used and i seriously recommend everyone to get a combo of there antivirus combined with superantispyware and this program Malwarebytes and il guarantee you you don’t regret this.

Not so FREE Anti Virus Programs


Nod32
My favorite paid antivirus and i would say this is the most lightweight antivirus out there that scans the fastest and by far has the greatest realtime protection ive seen. It scans in just 30minutes on my computer and it creates 0 lag at all which i love. I use this myself and this is just one of my favorite Antivirus programs out there, so if you want to buy antivirus this is the number 1 product i would recommend.

Kaspersky
This is my other favorite antivirus to use. Kaspersky 2009 or version 8 or whatever you want to call it has very very good detection rate and great protection, but i find it has way too much settings to config. The interface is very simple and easy to use though, and i usd this for 6 months. Reason why i switched over to Nod32 is because this antivirus delayed programs from installing, experienced waits from 3-5minutes on some programs like installing call of duty 4, so i changed to Nod32. Other than that this program deserves a good 10/10 for me. Its pretty damn light on resources too as i see it using no more than 20k memory usage on my task manager.

* NOTE: Do NOT run 2 or more antivirus programs, antispyware programs, or firewalls at the same time. They will just conflict, and your PC will start to crash from them.

Hope you enjoyed. Stay tuned.Happy Upgrading!