I\'ve had bad experience with my Windows Vista OS, because hackers usually get v

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I've had bad experience with my Windows Vista OS, because hackers usually get viruses on my computer. I don't want to pay a lot for a program like Norton, so I'm wondering if there's an antivirus program that's free that can:

Detect webpages/downloads that will get a virus on my computer, so it can warn me when visiting a site that installs harmful Malware

Protect against hackers when they try to hack and invade my computer through server requests, etc. (I don't know how they do it, so whatever)

Sometimes hackers can be sneaky, so I don't always know when there's Malware on my computer when hackers don't make it obvious that there's Malware that reads when you type bank passwords, etc.

Explanation / Answer

AVG Anti-Virus, it can add a plugin to browsers to allow your search results to tell you if a site is safe or not and it picks up attacks and blocks them and it has your normal Anti-virus scanning and secluding but that's kinda standard.

A nice feature about it that if your offline for a long time it will notify you that your definitions may be out of date and it tends to auto-update the moment you connect to the net

There are 2 versions, a Free one which provides good protection but you can get the paid version which has even more features. I tend to use the free one on every PC i set up and have had no problems, this ranges from my XP Laptop to my mum's Windows 7 PC so it should work for Vista.

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