McAfee Virus&Firewall

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For the last year I have been using McAfee 'Internet Security' which has
a firewall and a virus utility.
I have not been very happy with the firewall (too long a saga to explain
on all the troubles I have had with it and some of the applications I
use) - and now the virus utility has flagged up that my 'free update'
period has run-out.

I would like to use something better ... and ideally freeware.
Any suggestions on a firewall + virus combo ?

Many thanks DW
 
For the last year I have been using McAfee 'Internet Security' which
has a firewall and a virus utility.
I have not been very happy with the firewall (too long a saga to
explain on all the troubles I have had with it and some of the
applications I use) - and now the virus utility has flagged up that
my 'free update' period has run-out.

I would like to use something better ... and ideally freeware.
Any suggestions on a firewall + virus combo ?

Many thanks DW
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I used to use agnitum firewall free version, never had any problems although
payed version has more functions. I don't exactly know why i switched to
Norton , i guess just to be curious..Works perfect so far.
I guess freeware virus program are not that good as payed ones. Myself i
like Norton antvirus. i used McAfee years ago and i hated to download WHOLE
virus defs every time. File to be d/lded got bigger and bigger and bigger...
Norton downloads only updates, a few hundred kbytes long and it does it by
itself.
 
dw said:
For the last year I have been using McAfee 'Internet Security' which has
a firewall and a virus utility.
I have not been very happy with the firewall (too long a saga to explain
on all the troubles I have had with it and some of the applications I
use) - and now the virus utility has flagged up that my 'free update'
period has run-out.

I would like to use something better ... and ideally freeware.
Any suggestions on a firewall + virus combo ?

Many thanks DW
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I use pay eTrust AV from Computer Associates; not free but I think the
renewal is $10 US; I use the freeware Kerio 2.15 currently; I am not very
clued into firewalls, so I 'borrowed' Kerio setups from yosponge; I think I
use #2 (he has 4 versions). Maybe my etrust is not the best on the block but
it's better than nothing. I just renewed in March for another year, yeah a
whole ten bucks. ;)

As far as your other question, they work very well together; neither
conflicts with the other. Personally, I am thinking of going to fprot (I
think that's how you spell it) next year or maybe sooner before I renew with
etrust. :)

eTrust has caught some viruses/virii but I think by virtue of going
broadband and using XP Home, I should have a more robust/well endowed AV
program.

Hope I don't get flamed for mentioning payware, cheap as it is. :D
 
dw said:
For the last year I have been using McAfee 'Internet Security' which has
a firewall and a virus utility.
I have not been very happy with the firewall (too long a saga to explain
on all the troubles I have had with it and some of the applications I
use) - and now the virus utility has flagged up that my 'free update'
period has run-out.

I would like to use something better ... and ideally freeware.
Any suggestions on a firewall + virus combo ?

Many thanks DW
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My combo:

Grisoft AVG 6.0
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php

Outpost Free
http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpostfree.html
 
Sweet said:
Hope I don't get flamed for mentioning payware, cheap as it is. :D
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Not flamed, just reminded that this group is for the discussion of
freeware only, not "cheap" software. Please try to stay on topic.
 
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 14:43:30 -0700, "Sweet Andy Licious"

Hope I don't get flamed for mentioning payware, cheap as it is. :D
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There is an easy way to avoid such flames. Don't mention things that
aren't freeware in a freeware newsgroup.

One would have thought you could have worked that out yourself.
 
dw said:
Many thanks John ... am dl'ing as I write this.
David
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I uninstalled my (purchased) copy of McAfee Firewall and Virus Scanner.

It seemed to decide to delete MSVCRT40.DLL with it ... so I had to find
and download/install that as well <sigh>
.... but the good news is that Kerio and AVG are working away quite
merrily without any problems. I will see how it goes when my kids start
playing some of their Internet Multiplayer stuff ....

On a related topic, are there any test sites for internet firewalls ?
I remember Symantec doing one, but that doesn't seem to work now.

All the Best, Dave W
 
I uninstalled my (purchased) copy of McAfee Firewall and Virus
Scanner.

It seemed to decide to delete MSVCRT40.DLL with it ... so I had to
find and download/install that as well <sigh>
... but the good news is that Kerio and AVG are working away quite
merrily without any problems. I will see how it goes when my kids
start playing some of their Internet Multiplayer stuff ....

On a related topic, are there any test sites for internet firewalls ?
I remember Symantec doing one, but that doesn't seem to work now.

All the Best, Dave W
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go to http://security.symantec.com and click on 'test your computer's
exposure' link
 
Hope I don't get flamed for mentioning payware, cheap as it is.

There is an easy way to avoid such flames. Don't mention things that
aren't freeware in a freeware newsgroup.

One would have thought you could have worked that out yourself



Oh, good grief!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
 
John said:
Whoops. Pasted the wrong thing. Try this:

http://grc.com/default.htm
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Super .... using Mozilla and Kerio this came out as fully stealthed. I
had run similar tests on the Symantex site (which doesn't seem to be
responding currently) with my McAfee, and that did not come out as well
as Kerio.
 
dw said:
For the last year I have been using McAfee 'Internet Security' which has
a firewall and a virus utility.
I have not been very happy with the firewall (too long a saga to explain
on all the troubles I have had with it and some of the applications I
use) - and now the virus utility has flagged up that my 'free update'
period has run-out.

I would like to use something better ... and ideally freeware.
Any suggestions on a firewall + virus combo ?

Many thanks DW
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FWIW I use Zone Alarm.

BTW I wish you good luck when you uninstall McAfee. I found that it leaves
it leaves entries all over the registry.

===

Frank Bohan
¶ Eat prunes and start a new movement.
 
Sweet said:
There is an easy way to avoid such flames. Don't mention things that
aren't freeware in a freeware newsgroup.

One would have thought you could have worked that out yourself



Oh, good grief!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol


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Posting binaries to a text group. Good grief, indeed. }:O( !=lol
 
Frank said:
BTW I wish you good luck when you uninstall McAfee. I found that it leaves
it leaves entries all over the registry.
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Help stamp out and abolish redundancy and repetition. };O)
 
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