Favorite firewall and antivirus?

sec · Post by **sec** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 10:11 am

Polo wrote:Well the antivirus/firewall I use is myself

How about cost?

Post by **Polo** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 10:13 am

Hopefully it has been free for the moment, even if sometime he has enough

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 2:22 pm

Polo wrote:Well the antivirus/firewall I use is myself

Mmm! Are you sure it's enough ? Those virus are too much small for you

Kaisen2100 · Post by **Kaisen2100** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 2:25 pm

Zone Alarm Security suite ... it is great ... (not free) ... but is great ... it blocks everything.

Post by **Polo** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 2:50 pm

Psychophanta wrote:
Polo wrote:Well the antivirus/firewall I use is myself
Mmm! Are you sure it's enough ? Those virus are too much small for you

Well, for the moment, it's ok like that

Maybe the day I'll have a new computer I'll take a firewall

But this day is not already there

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 3:52 pm

Kaisen2100 wrote:it blocks everything.

exactly! also what it should not block.

DarkDragon · Post by **DarkDragon** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 4:20 pm

thefool wrote:
Kaisen2100 wrote:it blocks everything.
exactly! also what it should not block.

LOL, a year before I had problems with ZA(it has blocked everything and itself), but it is great now. Kerio is also a good firewall.

Doobrey · Post by **Doobrey** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 4:54 pm

dontmailme wrote: Zonealarm has always had a memory leak which just keeps slowing the machine down

Did you also end up getting a lot of crashes from dibeng.dll too ?
I've seen a couple of forums reporting ZoneAlarm as a common factor in those errors.

I get the same here, running AVG and ZoneAlarm and found the more I use the net, the more crashes I get

AVG is pretty good, it's popped up a couple of times recently as some website tries to download crap in the background.

As for ZoneAlarm, had a few problems with it. Turning the mailsafe option on quite often corrupted emails with attachments.

, but other than that it worked well enough

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 4:59 pm

notice im not trying to stop anyone from using or trying zonealarm. i want to try it too as it might have been fixed! other from that i like zonealarm.

wcardoso · Post by **wcardoso** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:26 pm

I'm using Kaspersky labs antivirus and like it a lot, it use a few resources and it's very effective. I apreciate the silent mode of work, don't distracts you with messages or anything.

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:25 am

Polo wrote:Well, I don't use any firewall/antivirus. My computer is slow enough, and I don't see the need of antivirus or firewall, I've never got and will never have virus, because I'm just a lot careful

Hi Polo, found an article that you SHOUD read, it proves my point on the importance of using AV software and a good FW.

http://informationweek.com

Jimbo_H · Post by **Jimbo_H** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:23 pm

ZoneAlarm and BitDefender here.

I've used many of the anti-virus packages at home and as an IT Admin. There's no such thing as a perfect app, but some are worse than others. Norton used to really annoy me when it decided it had found a virus in a file. I kept getting a looping dialog box about it denying access whenever I tried to delete the file from quarantine. Plus, try uninstalling Norton cleanly!! NOT possible!!! McAfee was ok, but I had a few problems with it suddenly deciding to take 100% CPU for no apparent reason for several minutes. I persevered for a long time and spent many an hour with their support team trying to sort issues out, but just got sick of it.

I've tried most of the others and think BitDefender is ok. It has some irritating habits, but I can live with them for the moment

I used Sygate for a long time and basically became bored with it and wanted a change. ZoneAlarm seems reasonable, so I'll use it for now.

Jim

Heis Spiter · Post by **Heis Spiter** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 11:47 am

Oh ! I'm happy ! I use the same Firewall and Anti-virus as GeoTrail. I've no problems with them. By the way, I've decided to use Sygate because it was the last Firewall that I've tested. The previous one don't work, or don't make that I want. And, Kerio crashed my computer (seems not to love Apache2). But know, I like Sygate, it works great. I've no problems with it (or perhaps Local Network).

Brice Manuel · Post by **Brice Manuel** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 11:54 am

AVG for Antivirus and Norton for Firewall

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 8:11 pm

0. harware firewall (sorry, forgot about that one)

1. zonealarm and zonealarm pro on two clients

2. norton on another client

3. kerio on the gateway server (as za wastes memory in the long run, does do continuous disk writes (stupid log feature) and screws up on some agent software)

4. ez-trust antivirus on most machines, but...

5. avg on one and norton on another

6. spybot (incl. teatimer on the gateway server)

7. adaware to round it all (i just love spybot)

8. syfiwa to watch for certain events (something a friend of mine is working on, it's a little tool that watches certain system files, does crc checks, and looks for changes)

have been clean now for a pretty long time

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