Favorite firewall and antivirus?

[GeoTrail]

I've been using Avast Home for a long time now along with Sygate Personal Firewall and they are really good both of them. Only negative thing I don't like about 'em is that they use quite alot of memory and cpu resources.

So I want to let people post their experiences here with the different antivirus and firewall apps out there. Besides from using as little memory and CPU as possible, the fact that they are free is top priority. So do you know of any good alternatives to the two I mentioned above?

[Polo]

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

[dagcrack]

Yup I use Sygate Personal Firewall Pro here and its quite good, although, as you said.. It eats as many resources as it wants (like if it was in one of those "eat all you can" restaurants).. But its ok as I have it in another system.

I always used NAV2002, for my own reasons.
I dont need new GUIs I dont need 10seconds faster scanning engine. Thats mainly why I dont use 2005 (for those who would name 2003+!)

And... When I tried Panda, everything went pretty bad.. I hate pandas now in fact I would stab them with those bamboos if I seen one again

Then tried some others, one worst than the other.. I got tired of them, went back to NAV02 which is pretty good (if you keep updated but thats with every security-wise application).

This firewall is also pretty good, better than others I tried, thats why I got it.

[dagcrack]

Polo.. also no anti-spyware? (I use MS' one.. which was emh bought from emh.. other... which emh.. MS didnt even emehh change some dlls and strings from it emh.. yet.. its beta yes.. but i'll just up, else you tuxedo kids will come and fight against MS again!).

Polo.. Polo.. Polo.., You should use some protection (like that saying about safe-sex) because, sooner or later you catch it.. And, why not preventing it? I mean .. Come on, even when I had a p2 I ran firewall and antivirus, its against my thoughts not to use them though - Just being careful is not about all you should do.. I bet you even use IE

[Polo]

When I was using an antivirus / firewall, my pc was damn slow, and anyway without it's all right
I'm really careful on what I'm downloading, I don't read mails I don't know the author, I'm careful when I'm on the internet, I don't allow videos/stuffs be played in IE (because I'm using IE )

[thefool]

i use Norton av 2005, my router has built in firewall however its only active for other computers here than my own (other stationary, the laptop, the server and other laptops here) and PeerGuardian 2.

[KarLKoX]

I ve just reinstalled my os (wich was installed 2 years ago) : it takes 30 seconds to get it down by viruses and other spy without an antivirus
With avast (only), there are no pb : i use it as my antivirus, firewall, anti p2p, mail scanner, script blocker etc ... and it works well.
I ve a nforce 4 motherboard and the forceware contains a memory leak (the app_filter module grows and eat the swap) this is why it is no more in my system.

[GeoTrail]

Polo, it's ok being carefull, but there is a reason for using a firewall. Worms should say everything. ANYBODY on your network, that includes everyone on the same ISP as you can get total access to your machine. And if you say you have never been attacked or been infected then you should try Nod32 and run it, trust me, you'll be surprised of all the stuff on your machine.

Viruses aren't the worst thing, but trojans and worms. They creep into your machine through your network. And not to mention IE, it's an invitation

[GeoTrail]

i use Norton av 2005, my router has built in firewall however its only active for other computers here than my own (other stationary, the laptop, the server and other laptops here) and PeerGuardian 2.

I'm installing PeerGuardian now, looks good. Thanks for the tip

[va!n]

i have tried some antivirus programs for a while like nort*n, antivir.... antivir is free and better as nothing on your system... i had antvir for a long time and was very happy until i had a very bad data loose due fact of a virus in background (even i had the latest version of antivir... antivir hasnt found the virus for a long time... ii noticed that antivir may have problems to detect/remove some viruses ;/

so i tested a program called NOD32... maybe a bit unknown to some of you!? but i really like this program... every day a small online update to be ever up to date...

about software firewalls... i dont really like it... i like hardware router with included firewall much more ,)

[Polo]

Polo, it's ok being carefull, but there is a reason for using a firewall. Worms should say everything. ANYBODY on your network, that includes everyone on the same ISP as you can get total access to your machine. And if you say you have never been attacked or been infected then you should try Nod32 and run it, trust me, you'll be surprised of all the stuff on your machine.

Viruses aren't the worst thing, but trojans and worms. They creep into your machine through your network. And not to mention IE, it's an invitation

I'm going to see what's that Nod32 to see

[Polo]

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You see ? I don't have virus on my computer

[GeoTrail]

Well, if I ran without both a firewall and antivirus my machine would be down withkin a few days, have tried before
Perhaps your ISP has a really good firewall system, but that would probably also mean lots of sites and servers would be blocked aswell.

[Polo]

I don't know for my ISP, maybe...
It's the ISP "Free" in france (the same as Fred )

[LuCiFeR[SD]]

Kerio & AVG for me for firewall AV combination. I also use Microsoft Antispyware beta (Used to be Giant Antispyware).

Seems to be a reasonable defense against most things. Anything else that crops up I can deal with manually