A thread about: viruses, spyware and whatnot

my mum called me earlier today, and i had to patiently explain to her never to install anything advertised in a pop-up ad...

Anti Virus Program
Firewall
Spyware Remover

And update all these regulary and have the firewall running constantly. I recently got my comp clean and it's great, so...here's what I use (these are all free and no trial)

Anti Virus: AVG http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

Firewall: Zone Alarm http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp

Spyware: Ad-Aware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ AND Spybot Search And Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Which free security software do you think works best? What is your favorites?

I plan on downloading a couple programs but am having trouble choosing from a huge list

www.apple.com/macbook/

I use AVG and haven't had any problems.

I use avast! and haven't had any problems.

I guess I've decided on avsat!, zonealarm and malwarebyte's
I might switch to AVG if avast sucks

Critical flaws revealed to affect most Intel chips since 1995

Most Intel processors and some ARM chips are confirmed to be vulnerable, putting billions of devices at risk of attacks. One of the security researchers said the bugs are "going to haunt us for years."

http://www.zdnet.com/article/security-flaws-affect-every-intel-chip-since-1995-arm-processors-vulnerable

Keep up dude we’re on the intel thread

i did search for exploit : /