Would you buy this? Interent security

[jlt19]

On our old laptop a friend gave me links to Avast and Malwarebytes for free protection. Both worked great. Then DD dropped said laptop.

On our new laptop, I tried going to those same links and the Avast one caused my internet to not come up, so I deleted it. The Malwarebytes downloaded just fine, but immediately said it was outdated. A few weeks later I finally clicked on the "update here" button. Upadated, and again, immediately is says it's oudated.

The laptop came with Norton but I didn't renew it. But, Groupon Goods has a $25 deal for 15 months of protection.

Is that a good deal?

Any better recs?

[jenny1223]

I've always used the free versions of Avast or AVG for virus protection with no problems.

[yellowbelly86]

I too use the free version of AVG and it works pretty well.

[jlt19]

Thanks, I've never heard of AVG, but I'll try that when I get home.

[regeltx]

I use AVG also, never had a problem. I also use Ad-Aware. (though it seems like now Ad-aware also have anti virus in it..)

[dexteroni]

Ditto AVG; I used it when I had Windows computers and it works great.

Spybot and AdAware are also both helpful for spyware and adware. I didn't keep those running all the time, though; I would just update it and run it every few months.