Anti-Virus/Firewall Programs

[screwballl]

Originally Posted by Banditman

I would not count your chickens yet. I tried the Comodo firewall and it totaly screwed up my PC as well as a friend's. It was so bad that in the end I had to reinstall windows on both computers.


I now use:

Avast
Spybot
Filseclab Firewall <---- Better than ZA IMO

I have no problems running this config and PC's are always clean. And I surf Porn too!! lol

if it screwed anything up then there was something else wrong that would have caused a conflict. Could have been an AV or realtime spyware/firewall/AV client that caused it. I have tested it and have it currently installed on 5 XP machines at home and 4 more at work without a single problem. Based on multiple sources, Comodo is the best software firewall out there hands down.

[frosty satan]

OK you guys have recommended me some free software, but does anyone use retail programs, if so what? Or would you actually recommend free software over retail?

My mum is going to buy some kinda suite program, so i might borrow that ;) Right now i think she's gonna get Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2007 for $49

[frosty satan]

I downloaded Zone Alarm and installed it. Connected to the net, but i can't do anything, it stops the web from working, anyone know how i can get it to let the internet work? :/

EDIT: I shut down my Trend Micro PC-Cillin Suite and zonealarm is on, and seems to be working...

[screwballl]

Since trend uses proxy settings to get its updates, that is likely the culprit.

Take a look here ate the software firewall leak tests:

Leak-tests results - matousec.com

[frosty satan]

I just connected my new PC to the internet, and Im currently using AVG Anti-Virus, ZoneAlarm Firewall, and Ad-Aware. My mum just bought Trend Micro PC-Cillin Suite 2007 which has a years free updates from when you register, going from that leak thing would it be better to use Trend over what im running now?

[yurimxpxman]

Originally Posted by frosty satan

I just connected my new PC to the internet, and Im currently using AVG Anti-Virus, ZoneAlarm Firewall, and Ad-Aware. My mum just bought Trend Micro PC-Cillin Suite 2007 which has a years free updates from when you register, going from that leak thing would it be better to use Trend over what im running now?

Quite honestly, the best thing for you to do is to stop paying for insecure software and start using GNU.