Antivirus/Firewall Software

[newuser]

I need to renew my norton antivirus and firewall sometime soon. I was looking at getting a different software package, and looking for sugesstions.

I heard Zone alarm is pretty good for their firewall, but is there antivirus package good?

behind a hardware firewall with SPI, btw

 

[yankeesfan]

WRONG FORUM

and.....

USE THE SEARCH BUTTON!

 

[Mo0o]

Using McAfee for AV and Kerio for FW. Both free from my school

 

[scorpmatt]

kaspersky av is good, so is avast av. zone alarm is decent, but can be taken down fairly quickly. Im not a fan of firewalls on my personal box anymore, slows the internet down too much.

 

[bsobel]

A user for over 2 years and can't even figure out where to post. Sad

 

[cKGunslinger]

This question is asked every 3.333 (repeating, of course) hours in the Software forum. Go there, Leroy!

 

[PanzerIV]

Newuser if you want a free combo then Zone Alarm, as you mentioned, coupled with AVG is a pretty good solution and easy on the wallet.

 

[BlueWeasel]

I use the older version of Kerio Personal Firewall (v2.15 I think) and it works great while consuming minimal system resources.

 

[Schadenfroh]

teh software forum and the search button 4tw

btw, visit this site

http://www.av-comparatives.org/

 

[newuser]

ok

my bad, never really used anything other than the hardware forums here

 

[CraigRT]

I use Trend Micro's online housecall for AV.

and I use Sygate firewall on any system that requires one.

(home systems, not work)

 

[Analog]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=40&threadid=1360181&enterthread=y

 

[Chunkee]

sygate firewall very stable and easy to use

jC

 

[SagaLore]

If you want something free, go with AVG + ZoneAlarm, or avast! + Sygate, or any combo of such.

If you want to pay for something, you should give Eset NOD32 a try.