Best Antivirus & Firewall Programs?

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What are the best antivirus and firewall programs that won't cause conflicts
with each other? Norton, McAfee and ZoneAlarm seem to cause as much trouble
as they prevent.
 
What are the best antivirus and firewall programs that won't cause conflicts
with each other? Norton, McAfee and ZoneAlarm seem to cause as much trouble
as they prevent.
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AVG and Outpost sit together very nicely and both are free,

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Anti_virus/Trojan free
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php
Firewall,
http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/
and also,"Spybot S&D",
http://security.kolla.de/
But also from time to time do an online AVS(Anti-Virus Scan)
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/
and ATS(Anti Trojan Scan),
http://www.trojanscan.com/

HTH :)
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What are the best antivirus and firewall programs that won't cause conflicts
with each other? Norton, McAfee and ZoneAlarm seem to cause as much trouble
as they prevent.
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If you're running WinXP, the built in firewall does fine. It does not
prevent *outgoing* messages, unlike some others, but it does seem to
reject all the *incoming* assaults, and that's what really counts.

For anti-virus, AVG is free and highly rated.

This is a quasi-religious topic, so flames are expected.
 
Shep© said:
AVG and Outpost sit together very nicely and both are free,
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I've looked at AVG's website, and it says it won't work in a networked
environment. I'm not up to speed on networking, so need help here.

I've got a linksys router with 3 wireless laptops at home running Norton
just fine, setting up one for daughter for college, don't want to start
Norton's subscription yet so want to try AVG, but am hesitant after
reading the product description on it's website.
Thanks.
Mark
 
I've looked at AVG's website, and it says it won't work in a networked
environment. I'm not up to speed on networking, so need help here.

I've got a linksys router with 3 wireless laptops at home running Norton
just fine, setting up one for daughter for college, don't want to start
Norton's subscription yet so want to try AVG, but am hesitant after
reading the product description on it's website.
Thanks.
Mark
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Just put a Antivirus program on each computer or check out on of
these..


Free Online scanners.
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Norton:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/

Under Virus definitions, click on...
Free Online Virus and Security Check

Trend:
http://www.trendmicro.com/en/home/global/enterprise.htm

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Free AntiVirus Programs:
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AVG
http://www.grisoft.com

AntiVir
http://www.free-av.com/

BitDefender
http://www.bitdefender.com

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Free FireWalls Programs:
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ZoneAlarm Personal Firewall:
http://www.zonealarm.com/

Kerio Personal Firewall:
http://www.kerio.com/us/kpf_home.html

Sygate Personal Firewall:
http://smb.sygate.com/

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Free SpyWare Scanner Programs:
---------------------------
Lavasoft Ad-aware:
http://www.lsfileserv.com/index.html

Spybot - Search & Destroy:
http://www.safer-networking.org/

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Free Registry Cleaner Programs:
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EasyCleaner:
http://www.toniarts.com/ecleane.htm


RedBack
 
pheasant said:
I've looked at AVG's website, and it says it won't work in a networked
environment. I'm not up to speed on networking, so need help here.

I've got a linksys router with 3 wireless laptops at home running Norton
just fine, setting up one for daughter for college, don't want to start
Norton's subscription yet so want to try AVG, but am hesitant after
reading the product description on it's website.
Thanks.
Mark
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I used AVG on one of my computers in my home network and it worked just
fine. I had it installed to just that one computer, though, not running
across the network. It was running on Windows98 vanilla on a network
through a Netgear router. Didn't have any problems with it on that
computer. I just need to reinstall it after a harddrive reformat.

Patty
 
Wooducoodu said:
What are the best antivirus and firewall programs that won't cause conflicts
with each other? Norton, McAfee and ZoneAlarm seem to cause as much trouble
as they prevent.
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Hands down...Norton's!
 
I've looked at AVG's website, and it says it won't work in a networked
environment. I'm not up to speed on networking, so need help here.
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No normal consumer virus scanner knows or cares if you are on a network or
not. What they are getting at is that you shouldn't plan to use AVG (or any
other normal consumer virus scanner) on a mail server or to scan other
computers on your network.
I've got a linksys router with 3 wireless laptops at home running Norton
just fine, setting up one for daughter for college, don't want to start
Norton's subscription yet so want to try AVG, but am hesitant after
reading the product description on it's website.
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IMHO AVG is every bit as good as Norton and arguably better. The vast majority
of Norton/Mcafee users I've seen don't even have a current subscriptions and
as a result really arn't doing much good. With the free version of AVG
updates are also free so at least you don't have to worry about that. I've
never seen AVG step on other programs and I've never had problems removing
it, neither of which I can say for Norton or Mcafee.
 
I concur

AVG is widely used....plugged on TechTV all the time.....its very small in footprint and has never failed me....it can be used to
'manually' scan networked drives.
 
well, i run sygate pf pro 5.1 on my system along with symantic corporate 8.1
and haven't had any problems whatsoever.
 
I use Norton anti-virus on my machines, but additionally, I pay the $1.00
per month extra to my ISP for their online anti-virus and spam filter.
Norton ends up being a second line of defense. I downloaded the Google
Toolbar, and use google as my default search engine....the popup blocker on
it is outstanding. Adaware6 will filter any spyware that does make it
through, and the plus version will block any changes to the registry without
your permission. I don't use a software firewall, including XP's...I use a
Linksys router with NAT.

Fitz
 
j said:
well, i run sygate pf pro 5.1 on my system along with symantic corporate 8.1
and haven't had any problems whatsoever.





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I have run Sygate personal firewall since it first came along, recommend it
highly after the Zonealarm fiasco with Win-XP.
Also running AVG, excellent program.
I checked a review site years ago on firewalls, they rated Sygate tops
closely followed by Zonealarm, interestingly enough both these 'free'
programs beat out the pay-for-play programs like black-Ice etc in terms of
features and protection.

regards
Freddie
 
What fiasco with za/xp? I ask because I installed ZoneAlarm on my
father-in-law's pc, then later we uninstalled it, now there are certain web
sites that will not load.
 
I have ZoneAlarm Pro on my computer and it works great, The only
problems that I am having is with websites that insist in placing
cookies on my computer no matter if I want them or not.
If you have a program that blocks cookies and internet explorer
will do that, then there are a lot of sites that will not let you in
if you refuse cookies.

Cheers

What fiasco with za/xp? I ask because I installed ZoneAlarm on my
father-in-law's pc, then later we uninstalled it, now there are certain web
sites that will not load.
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Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Product Version: 6.0.553 Release Date: 02/09/2003
Virus Database: 345 Release Date: 18/12/2003
 
Michael Copeland said:
What fiasco with za/xp? I ask because I installed ZoneAlarm on my
father-in-law's pc, then later we uninstalled it, now there are certain web
sites that will not load.
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The first version of Zonealarm for windows was flawed and quickly patched.
Unfortunatley I installed it and it trashed my XP installation.
Thought it was just me but I heard the same from several people. Although I
am assured it works fine now.

regards
Freddie
 
I have ZoneAlarm Pro on my computer and it works great, The only
problems that I am having is with websites that insist in placing
cookies on my computer no matter if I want them or not.
If you have a program that blocks cookies and internet explorer
will do that, then there are a lot of sites that will not let you in
if you refuse cookies.
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On my Desktop I run AVG Free version, Zone Alarm Pro 4 (up to 4.5 now),
W98SE, and Mozilla 1.5. I use Mozilla to block cookies. If you don't like
them, then you can set Mozilla to accept the cookies, but only for that
session. It'll delete them when you close Mozilla down.
 
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