Windows Live Onecare Ran Out- Renew Or Diff. Antivirus?

My windows liveonecare subscription ran out today so I’m av-less. Should I just renew or use different software? I want something that protects against viruses, spyware, adware, trojans, rootkits, just ALL the bad stuff out there. A firewall would be great, but sometimes they’re not that good. I’ve heard Kaspersky is a great solution but it’s very expensive. Internet security has everything while it’s antivirus has everything but a firewall. Is there a good freeware firewall that works well with Kaspersky, has the highest ratings (works just as well or better than paid for firewalls), and doesn’t hurt system resources?
Basically, I’m choosing to renew Live OneCare or to buy Kaspersky AV and get a freeware firewall. Should I just renew, or what freeware firewall is as good or better than paid firewalls and easy on resources?
I have Vista Business 32-bit with 2.0GHZ dual core processor, 2GB DDR2 RAM, 335MB vidram, and 50GB free HDD space.
Help?

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2 Responses to “Windows Live Onecare Ran Out- Renew Or Diff. Antivirus?”

1. swarovski crystals says:

   September 2, 2009 at 4:56 am

   re-install it
2. Geri says:

   September 2, 2009 at 4:57 am

   A recent newsletter by Widows Secrets had an article about the best and worst firewalls. Live OneCare scored near the bottom. The free Comodo Firewall Pro had a perfect score. From the article:
   “So far, the results are staggering: of the 19 firewalls tested, 10 failed miserably (including Windows Live OneCare) and as such should not be relied upon to protect your system. Only five of the firewalls tested received a rating of “excellent” or “very good.” Three others were rated “good,” and one was rated “poor.”
   Based on Matousec’s leak-test results, the top two personal firewalls are the free Comodo Firewall Pro and Tall Emu’s $40 Online Armor Personal Firewall, both of which stopped every attack thrown at them. In third place is ISecSoft’s $30 ProSecurity, which blocked 93% of the test’s access attempts, and in fourth place is Agnitum’s $40 Outpost Firewall Pro, which thwarted 91% of the attacks. (Note that the fee-based firewalls offer free trials of 30 to 90 days, and their prices include one year of updates for up to three PCs.)
   A lot of you probably use Check Point Software’s $40 ZoneAlarm Pro. Be aware that the program scored only 74% in Matousec’s leak tests. Microsoft’s $50 Windows Live OneCare is nearly at the bottom of the barrel in 18th place, scoring a miserable 5%. Pretty shocking, eh?”http://windowssecrets.com/2008/04/17/05-…http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/o…
   You don’t have to pay for antivirus or antispyware protection. These products are all free and highly rated:
   Antivirus:http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl…http://www.avast.com/eng/free_virus_prot…http://www.free-av.com/
   Antispywarehttp://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaw…http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybo…http://www.superantispyware.com/http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security…
   wwbgd