Got new laptop! Help!

[ProShooter]

I just bought a new laptop (toshiba sattelite) love it:smilewinkgrin: so anyways need help on what programs i should get to portect it need it for free:lol: dnt got alot of money...so if you have any virus protection or firewalls i should get (for free) post and nething else needed..

thanks for any help:thumbsup:

 

[Pikachu256]

AvG is a great anti virus software
http://free.grisoft.com/

Firefox is a great Browser
www.firefox.com

and Adblock plus is a great way to disable ads on your firefox browser
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

 

[ProShooter]

ah sry! posted in rong place let it die!

 

[D S]

It doesn't need to die :/
A mdo will be moving when it is caught by a mod

 

[bw!]

sorry but wrong place :yesnod:

 

[Mako]

Sorry to hear you got a toshiba. You should have done more research and got an Asus. Just my 2 cents. Here's a link from a well respected laptop forum for the best free windows software. http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=32000

 

[blueovalboy7]

Sorry to hear you got a toshiba. You should have done more research and got an Asus. Just my 2 cents. Here's a link from a well respected laptop forum for the best free windows software. http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=32000

Toshiba's are bad in what regard? Nothing but smooth sailing with mine.

 

[ProShooter]

Lol I don''t think hes very smart..he thinks my parents chose...I chose =) new toshiba sattelite is the best!

 

[ericlewis91]

i would help..but whats windows


ive been using macs since 1995

 

[Mako]

Toshiba's are bad in what regard? Nothing but smooth sailing with mine.

That's good to hear, and i'm sure it's perfectly fine. What I meant was that toshiba laptops and many other brand names are in actuality Quanta, Clevo, Asus, or Uniwill. They buy the laptops from these manufacturers and rebrand them. So you are being charged for the brand name. Here's an article to clarify it for you. http://helllabs.org/blog/20070731/your-laptops-true-origins/

And here's a response to the article specific to Toshiba
"Regretable .. but yes .. It happened to me .. I had a Toshiba P15-S479 (the one that I took to the Conectiva Labs the day I payed a visit if you can remember) that turned out to be a Compal Machine ..

I found out thanks to Linux .. and to the fact that the toshiba_acpi module wouldn’t load. After a rather short research, and an e-mail from a clamav devel (if I remember correctly) that had bought a Tecra notebook only to find out that it was not only not manufactured, but not even designed by Toshiba but Compal, I came across the “omnibook” kernel module ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/omke/ now http://sourceforge.net/projects/omnibook/) .. take a look at the list of supported machines and oops … there you go .. half of the notebooks that you pay for good (whether they are Acer, HP, Toshiba, etc,), turn out to be “el cheapo” notebooks, branded by “I ain’t buying crap from you again” corporations =)"

 

[Zackh321]

Comodo Firewall is one of the best firewalls out there:
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

Also, if you use the Firefox browser NoScript is a good little addon to prevent Javascripts and other nasty things from loading when you go to websites. It allows you to go to an icon on the bottom corner and allow scripts on the sites you visit.

http://noscript.net/

 

[wiigotdawii]

I know a solution: Get a Mac!

 

[ericlewis91]

I know a solution: Get a Mac!

thats the right answer to any windows computing

 

[ProShooter]

i like macintosh though i don't like how they look

 

[wiigotdawii]

just joking :lol: but what's not to like?