recommended anti-virus/spyware for winxp?

[edgarbc1]

im thinking im gonna buy some antivirus program
for my bootcamp xp partition.... any recommended products?
do you recommend even anti-spyware?

the big boys:
McAffee
Symantec

others?

Microsoft seems to offer some freebies
and some not so freebies...
Windows Defender (anti-spyware)
Malicious Software Removal Tool
Windows Live OneCare (90 days free trial) - but this is over the web scanning...not sure i like this... even though i have a legit copy of windows and i dont keep sensitive
info on the xp partition....


I have already...
1) turned on the firewall
2) updated XP whenever i get those notices
3) i dont surf the internets on XP other than Microsoft websites
4) i keep IE7 at high security (or temporarily change it if necessary)

tia
EBC

[ztirffritz]

ClamAV:
http://www.clamav.net/download/

AVG Free:
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

both are free AV solutions.

Don't use IE. Period. That will help prevent most security issues, and it will encourage web designers to code standards compliant websites. Instead use Firefox or Opera. They have security issues too, but nothing compared to IE, they are usually fixed faster and the offer better features.

[Voryn]

I use avg and for spyware windows tool + Spybot S & D

[Sam3]

AVG for antivirus, Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D (use both) for spyware. Though a better solution for spyware is a commercial one called Spy Sweeper by Webroot. That solution finds and clears out more malware than either of the two freebies do.

[onthedownlow]

Blink - best you can get. http://www.eeye.com/html/index.html

This is what the government uses. Does not rely on 'DAT' update files. Really good stuff...and free for a year. Try it out.

I am a huge advocate for McAfee VirusScan w/Anti-Spyware (Enterprise versions...not consumer versions). Even Symantec Corporate is great.

I wish 'home' versions were as lean and powerful as their corporate counterparts.

EDIT: (when I say 'government'...I do mean the Feds - DoD, DoJ, etc.) : )

[ka jowct]

Don't use IE. Period.

Not an option for people building web sites, unfortunately. I wish it would go away: if ever anything needed to be erased from existence, it's IE.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

[quote ka jowct]Don't use IE. Period.

Not an option for people building web sites, unfortunately. I wish it would go away: if ever anything needed to be erased from existence, it's IE.
So you are worried about catching viruses from your own websites? I use Firefox for 98% of my surfing and use IE only for sites that work better with streaming video like ABC and CNN. Safari for Windows actually works on a couple of sites that Firefox does not work with but I have found a couple of sites that Safari does not work with.

[edgarbc1]

[quote onthedownlow]Blink - best you can get. http://www.eeye.com/html/index.html

This is what the government uses. Does not rely on 'DAT' update files. Really good stuff...and free for a year. Try it out.

I am a huge advocate for McAfee VirusScan w/Anti-Spyware (Enterprise versions...not consumer versions). Even Symantec Corporate is great.

I wish 'home' versions were as lean and powerful as their corporate counterparts.

EDIT: (when I say 'government'...I do mean the Feds - DoD, DoJ, etc.) : )

this is all for home use...
so is the personal version of Blink as good as the professional, in your opinion?

ive read in reviews that many of the advanced features are not so easy to set
for those who dont know much about windows.. im no expert to say the least
but this intrigues me.... another caveat since i have a FAT32 partition...
"Also, it must be installed on a NTFS partition for the active protection to work! "

thanks

[ka jowct]

So you are worried about catching viruses from your own websites?

No, other sites, I guess. I've downloaded various Windoze updates for my VPC virtual disk and have done some other limited browsing with IE, so I installed AVG and Ad-Aware.