Favorite firewall and antivirus?

Rescator · Post by **Rescator** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 9:25 pm

Avast Home (love free stuff)
I'm also amazed at the updates, sometimes multiple viral database updates per day.

Also use MS Antispyware.

And I use a hardware firewall (my modem/router is rather nice).

oridan · Post by **oridan** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 8:50 am

1. McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0 + McAfee Anti-Spyware Enterprise Module
2. McAfee Desktop Firewall 8.0
3. Microsoft Anti-Spyware
4. Ad-aware
5. Windows Firewall

SimpleMind · Post by **SimpleMind** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 2:27 pm

NOD32 + COMODO

ts-soft · Post by **ts-soft** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 2:53 pm

Hardware Firewall
ZoneAlarm with Antivirus

I will never more use Symantec "Condom.dll" or anything else from
this Softwarehouse. Very unreliably, self-willed and gladly times
the system destroys

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 5:35 pm

Dev1 (my dev machine): CA Antivirus (newest) + ZoneAlarm 5.5 (old version, latest causes severe troubles)

Stk3 (my parents): AntiVir Free (CA was causing too many troubles on this machine in combination with ZoneAlarm) + ZoneAlarm (newest)

Serv1 (music hoster and gateway): Kerio Personal Firewall (some old version) + CA Antivirus (newest)

Laptop3 (my old company laptop): CA + ZA (both newest, the machine is a bit slow but not really an issue)

Laptop4 (my wife's): CA+ZA

Laptop5 (my new company laptop): Windows Firewall (nothing else yet, but it will probably be ZA5.5 + AntiVir Free or CA + ZA5.5, I guess)

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:45 pm

AVG and ZoneAlarm, both latest versions used on all computers with no problems.

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:52 pm

Unfortunately, the latest versions of both ZA and CA Antivirus cause the performance of your computer to go way down. Anybody else suffer the same issues with these two products?

ts-soft · Post by **ts-soft** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:12 am

The newest version uses Kaspersky and no longer CA, but you are right, the computer become slower

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:44 am

For anti-virus I used to use AVG Free edition and liked it except that its alerts would automatically time-out and disappear before I could read them, a "feature" you couldn't turn off, so I switched to Avast Home about 18 months ago and have been happy with it.

For anti-spyware I used to use Ad-Aware but after years of bugs and flaws with no updates to fix them, so I switched to Spybot Search & Destroy about six months ago and have been happy with it. Also tried Microsoft's Denfender but gave up on it when I could not get it to do automatic update checks.

For firewall software, I just use the one that comes with Windows XP. Tried Zone Alarm back when it was free as well as a hardware firewall as part of a router and both seemed to create more problems than they solved.

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:07 am

The ZoneAlarm I'm using is the free one, with no problems, I did get the whole suite but as has been pointed out it does hog the system, a lot like Norton, so I went back to the free one.

SoulReaper · Post by **SoulReaper** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:22 am

I am using kaspersky v7.00

does the job...

Michael Vogel · Post by **Michael Vogel** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:46 pm

Kaspersky Personal Security Suite V5 (can be used for free;)

michaeled314 · Post by **michaeled314** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:05 pm

Ad-aware and Microsoft Antivirus! I run both in case one doesn't catch something the other one will!

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