Can anyone recommend free internet security

[dbcunnz]

Security Essentials test drive — month 6
I have been using it with Win XP (there is no XP x64 version available) Win 7 x32 and Win 7 x64 since it came out and have not had any malware or virus infections of any kind or found any problems with it since it first came out and fully agree with the tests below.

The following report is by Fred Langa Windows Secrets Newsletter
Earlier this year, when Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) was still new, I decided to put it to an extensive real-life test by making it the only full-time security solution on my daily-use and portable PCs. I then reported my initial results in the May 6 Top Story, "The 120-day Microsoft security suite test drive." I also promised future updates.

So here it is: after six months of full-time use on nine different systems, MSE looks like a solid winner.

For my tests, I used Windows' built-in firewall (on XP, Vista, and Win7) and a copy of Microsoft Security Essentials, which I allowed to run with its default settings. Over the past six months, my main PCs have been online 24/7 and my two portables have logged over 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) of use in hotels, coffee shops, cars, planes, ships, and other assorted public venues.

All the machines have remained clean. They've suffered no malware or virus infections whatsoever.
MSE is free and is available for every version of Windows (download/info http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ ). It's small and fast and consumes very little by way of system resources. I can detect no MSE-induced slowdowns on any of my PCs — even the low-horsepower netbook.

Doug

[Naki]

hmm might give this a try ..have heard good things about it...thanks for the info

[Bazza]

Despite figuring on this thread a year or so back using AVG, I switched to Avast which I used for some time, before advice put me onto
MSSE as above. I have used this now for about 6 months and quite like it, very unobtrusive, and recommended by a lot of technical people.