free firewall & AV

[Edt]

Getting rid of the installed Macafee from the missus' laptop as its a 600Mhz jobby & running like a slug in treacle.

Will install AVG free edition but what's a decent freeware firewall? (She doesnt browse for torrents or anything that dodgy)

thanks
Ed

[__Lee__]

Try www.zonelabs.com for ZoneAlarm which is a very user friendly firewall that does most things for itself.

[GreenV8S]

I use ZoneAlarm, no problems with it so far. My broadband connection also has a hardware firewall at this end and a software firewall at the ISP end, but I keep ZA for those odd occasions when I need to use dialup.

[jodypress]

i used to use ZA v4, for ages was fine, went to v5 and it messed up my whole system. real pig to uninstall etc.

so went to sygate personal firewall, been fine for a year or so.

[jfrf]

yep , ive used sygate for ayear with no probs.
people say its uses less resources than zonealarm

[RickH]

I'm on ZA v6. No problems so far. I run some other stuff aswell to keep track of the ads and spyware. Very intuitive front end, I'm quite impressed.

Rick

[[k]ar|]

I have used the following apps for a while now - they work together well to provide comprehensive protection and don't interfere with each other. However, I also have an ADSL router with NAT to hide behind, so YMMV.

Firewall = Kerio Personal Firewall (www.kerio.com)
Anti-virus = AntiVIR (www.free-av.com)

Both are free for non-commercial use.

Hope this helps

[k]


edited to add - for spyware, I use Ad-Aware, Spybot Search & Destroy, and HijackThis. All free and very handy for blasting malware annoyances. [k]

>> Edited by [k]ar| on Saturday 6th August 14:14

[Edt]

cheers fellas
Ed

[GreenV8S]

[quote=[k]ar|]
edited to add - for spyware, I use Ad-Aware, Spybot Search & Destroy, and HijackThis. All free and very handy for blasting malware annoyances. [k]
[/quote]

I recommend Spyware Blaster and CCleaner too. None of these tools offer perfect protection but if you keep them up to date then between them I think you're reasonably safe.

[zumbruk]

I run no firewall, AV or spyware software on the Windows XP box at all. Never have. Likely never will - it's never caught anything "nasty". Of course, it sits behind a proper dedicated firewall and isn't allowed to talk directly to the Internet (it uses a Squid proxy). That and running Firefox sorts out everything.