Tutorials - Free anti-virus, anti-spyware, and firewall for your home PC.
While your business may pay for antivirus and so on for your work PC, that may not be so for your home one, fortunately there are some perfectly good alternatives for your home PC that are free for personal use. You ought to have all three types of software installed, just in case.
They can all be upgraded to paid-for versions if you need software support etc. for your home system.
These links are correct at the time of writing, if you find them to be out of date, please let us know, and then try putting the name of the software into Google to find the latest version.
Firstly, Antivirus:
- Grisoft AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/
- avast! 4 Home Edition - http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html
Secondly, Firewall:
- ZoneAlarm Firewall - http://www.zonealarm.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp
Thirdly, Anti-spyware:
- Lavasoft Adaware Free - http://www.lavasoft.com/software/adaware/
A final point is that a lot of PC's purchased for home use come with limited trials of Norton Antivirus and related programs which can (for reasons best known to others) sometimes be difficult to fully remove and replace with a free-for-home-use alternative. In such situations we recommend you download the "Norton Removal Tool" to do it for you, from the following news article.