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01-15-2005, 04:23 PM

Peter Barry

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Just wondering what everyone uses out there for virus and firewall protection. Back a couple years ago, I bought the McAfee Virus Scan 6.0 which included a firewall. I was happy with the virus part of it, but found the firewall didn't work very well. Now after a year or two of having it, it is not letting me get virus updates off their site as it says I need to purchase new software.

So, I am looking for a new program. Somthing that I won't have to purchase new software every year. Also I want somthing that automatically uptates itself.

Anyone have somthing they are happy with? I was think about going Norton. Any pro's or con's over McAfee?

01-15-2005, 05:22 PM

Cereal

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Norton is good but takes alot of processing power IMO. I use Avast free edititon and it auto-updates and does everything I want. Low on system resources.

for a firewall I use sygate free since it does it's job!

01-15-2005, 05:36 PM

goofball2k

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Symantec Antivirus as it does not require yearly subscriptions. not the same as Norton Antivirus.

Zonealarm for firewall.

I'm not a big fan of mcafee's. Judging by Microsoft's decision to not use Mcafee anymore for hotmail, i think it's pretty clear. Way too heavy on resources and i don't find it works very well anyways.

01-15-2005, 05:44 PM

Shaughn Murley

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I will be getting rid of my software firewall for a router with firewall. I feel better with hardware for firewall, and pandasoft does my antivirus for me

01-15-2005, 06:02 PM

Tim Baillie.

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I have found the best firewall is to buy a router, it has worked wonders for me, every week or so I log on and reroute to a different IP and I am good to go.

XP has a firewall that seems to work good, it blocks Kazaa

01-15-2005, 06:21 PM

pinhead

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router
xp
avg-finds viruses that norton misses
and the best part its free

01-15-2005, 10:09 PM

JRace

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AVG - Free virus scanner
Zonealarm = Also free

01-15-2005, 10:18 PM

MrEastSide

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I just use XP's firewall. If you don't have XP I used to use the free zone alarm which was great! I also had McAfee firewall for a year and that seemed to work fine.

01-15-2005, 10:23 PM

Tim Baillie.

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the best virus detection is www.trendsmicro.com

It is used by most computer techs in the world to fix computers and it's free................

01-16-2005, 07:34 AM

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I use McAfee 7 but with Zone Alarm as my firewall. ZA is free, slick, simple to use, and is actually "better" than the Pro version you can buy. That and the router firewall makes a good hardware/software combination.

The McAfee firewall is brutal. I tried it and uninstalled it immediately. The above combination is very efficient, and light on processor use too.

McAfee 6 still works great - uninstall/registry edit/reinstall (without the firewall) should solve your problem!

Mark

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