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I am working on a IBM 1400 Thinkpad Notebook. Has a 433 celeron cpu 192 m.b of ram. I have a clean install of windows xp. I have a 2 part question. Which free anti-virus and web browser would work best with my limited power? Have I.E 7 and live care one on it now and runs horrible.Have also used the windows xp tweak guilde here to turn off every thing possible. Thank You for any tips you may have.
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Mar 8, 2009, 12:44 PM
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web browser- firefox
antivirus- AVGfree though I would prefer nod 32
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Mar 8, 2009, 12:49 PM
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I'd say something along the lines of Opera, maybe even Safari considering the new version is supposed to be pretty nice, AVG free is probably light enough, but if not, check out Avast Home, it runs light and has good detection rates. NOD32, from my experience, detects and does absolutely nothing. I ran it for more than a year on my PC without a single detection, notification, nothing from it. Avira Antivir on the other hand does a nice job at keeping me paranoid 
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Mar 8, 2009, 12:55 PM
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I personally use Kaspersky works fine for me and would definitly recommend. And not suprised about one care heard nothing but bad reviews about it.
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Mar 8, 2009, 01:04 PM
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Apologies to the op me bad pays to read the full post.
 
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Mar 8, 2009, 01:06 PM
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I recommend Avira Antivir, it's the best IMO and it has a small memory footprint.
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At first I tryed unbuntu but the system really bogged bad on it. I really just am setting it up for a family member for wireless internet. I am new at using unbuntu is there another version of unbuntu that may run smooth with those specs,so I dont need to worry about viruses? At work but think version was 8.10 ?
 And thanks for the info on microsoft killing care one use it on my main computers.
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Free pretty much comes down to AVG, Avira, and Avast. Despite the hype, Avast hasn't done that great in various comparisons I've read. I've been using AVG and Avira together for awhile, and I had to laugh at your last sentence there because that's exactly what it does -- Bing! "Oh no!" false positive....
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Mar 9, 2009, 04:35 PM
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Avast is my choice.
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Mar 9, 2009, 04:43 PM
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I use ClamWin.
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Opera (web browser) and Comodo or Avira (A/V)
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