Personally I use AVG Free...its a bit bloated these days, but for the price, its good. As for firewall, i'm on dialup at home, and therefore not connected to the intarwebs 24/7, and find the firewall built into XP is good enough...but you're on broadband, so you'll probably want something a bit better.
For the record, if you're running another antivirus program, make sure you have the AV part of Comodo disabled...you should really only have one antivirus program installed and running at the same time, otherwise, as you've seen, they can, and will, conflict with each other.
I'm just thinking...you're a uni student, right? Check your uni's IT division web page...i dunno if your uni would do this, but my uni provides free copies of Sophos to all staff and students. I'm running Sophos on my new machine, and its actually very good.
Doesn't the free ZA last for as long as you want?? I had ZA for years and it was a free edition... Prolly changed it?? I also used Ad-Aware & Spybot and they were the best in my opinion. Having Vista is great because I've never had a virus. You should ask at Uni though if you would get a discount at the Co-Op book store for software, or even officeworks. I used to get heaps of discounts.
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For the record, if you're running another antivirus program, make sure you have the AV part of Comodo disabled...you should really only have one antivirus program installed and running at the same time, otherwise, as you've seen, they can, and will, conflict with each other.
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I had ZA for years and it was a free edition... Prolly changed it?? I also used Ad-Aware & Spybot and they were the best in my opinion.
Having Vista is great because I've never had a virus.
You should ask at Uni though if you would get a discount at the Co-Op book store for software, or even officeworks. I used to get heaps of discounts.
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