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Simon:
We have recently updated our lists of available Anti Virus and Firewall applications, which you will find by clicking the tabs at the top of the page.  We hope you will find these useful.  Further updates will take place shortly.

Lona:
I don't see Sygate firewall in your list, Simon. :?:

Simon:
That's because it's been taken over by Symantec, Lona.  ;)

chorleydave:
Does anyone use these paid-for security programs and, if so, what would you say is the advantage over free anti-virus and firewall software?

I have had a home internet connection since I returned to Chorley in early 1999, have always used freebies (i.e. AVG, Avast, Zone Alarm, Kerio Free) and yet in seven and a half years have never had a single virus or other nasty.  Admittedly, I am probably a little more savvy than your average punter, not least because I frequent sites like this, but so are the rest here, so I can't see for the life of me why anybody would want to pay upwards of twenty quid to stay safe online when the freebies are just as effective.  Not only that, but from what I have read, the more popular paid-for software is no better than the stuff it is trying to stop.  I believe that Norton, for instance, gets imbedded right inside the operating system, stops certain other programs from running and could easily be defined as malware itself.

Nevertheless, a good and useful list.  

 :)

Clive:
I use Norton's and it slows my 3.2 Ghz computer down to a standstill.  It insists on checking every file I open even if it's been on my machine for ever and a day.

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