best Anti-virus and firewall for laptop?
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I look after the teacher's laptops at school and put the free AVG on .The new 7.5 version is very good .Infact I just deleted an older v7.1 today on a machine and installed 7.5 and it picked up a trojan straight away .I used Zone Alarm as a firewall for along time but have been experimenting with Comodo .It's free and very good and I dont get all the popups some people report. Give them a try m8.
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spinna said:
So do I.As for laptop, free offerings from AVG/Avast/Antivir for AV and Comodo/Sunbelt Kerio for FW?
There is some AOL branded Kaspersky av out there apparently. Meant to be quite good.
spinna said:
Put a free AV application on a PC and you might as well make a cup of tea from a chocolate teapot.
NOD32 is brilliant, best AV from home users as far as I am concerned.
Of course, if you want to infect the laptop with a virus then by all means, use one of the free applications
MarcLister said:
Active Virus Shield it's called, you can get it here.
I'm currently using this on my laptop, it is quite good and low on resources whilst scanning in the background.
Or you could just install NOD32 on your laptop, I've had it running on my desktop and laptop with no problems using just the one licence for quite a few months, just decided to try something different.
AFAIK NOD32 works differently in that it detects how many virus update signatures have been downloaded per month, and if it goes over a certain figure thats when they revoke the licence. But they usually set the number of downloads per month to something quite high anyway.
hashcake said:Put a free AV application on a PC and you might as well make a cup of tea from a chocolate teapot.
NOD32 is brilliant, best AV from home users as far as I am concerned.
Of course, if you want to infect the laptop with a virus then by all means, use one of the free applications
You're in for a shock then ,link
From Aug 06.
Rank
1. Kaspersky version 6.0.0.303 - 99.62%
2. Active Virus Shield by AOL version 6.0.0.299 - 99.62%
3. F-Secure 2006 version 6.12.90 - 96.86%
4. BitDefender Professional version 9 - 96.63%
5. CyberScrub version 1.0 - 95.98%
6. eScan version 8.0.671.1 - 95.82%
7. BitDefender freeware version 8.0.202 - 95.57%
8. BullGuard version 6.1 - 95.57%
9. AntiVir Premium version 7.01.01.02 - 95.45%
10. Nod32 version 2.51.30 - 95.14%
11. AntiVir Classic version 7.01.01.02 - 94.26%
12. ViruScape 2006 version 1.02.0935.0137 - 93.87%
13. McAfee version 10.0.27 - 93.03%
14. McAfee Enterprise version 8.0.0 - 91.76%
15. F-Prot version 6.0.4.3 beta - 87.88%
16. Avast Professional version 4.7.871 - 87.46%
17. Avast freeware version 4.7.871 - 87.46%
18. Dr. Web version 4.33.2 - 86.03%
19. Norman version 5.90.23 - 85.65%
20. F-Prot version 3.16f - 85.14%
21. ArcaVir 2006 - 83.44%
22. Norton Professional 2006 - 83.18%
23. AVG Professional version 7.1.405 - 82.82%
24. AVG freeware version 7.1.405 - 82.82%
25. Panda 2007 version 2.00.01 - 82.23%
26. Virus Chaser version 5.0a - 81.47%
27. PC-Cillin 2006 version 14.10.1051 - 80.90%
28. VBA32 version 3.11.0 - 79.12%
29. ViRobot Expert version 4.0 - 76.22%
30. UNA version 1.83 - 75.44%
31. Rising AV version 18.41.30 - 73.60%
32. Sophos Sweep version 6.0.2 - 69.48%
33. Ikarus version 5.19 - 63.22%
34. Antiy Ghostbusters version 5.1.3 - 61.55%
35. Digital Patrol version 5.00.12 - 54.29%
36. Vexira 2006 version 5.002.45 - 52.66%
37. V3Pro 2004 version 6.1.1.2.640 - 52.38%
38. Ewido Premium version 4.0.0.172 - 51.27%
39. Ewido freeware version 4.0.0.172 - 51.27%
40. ClamWin version 0.88.4 - 51.23%
41. E-Trust version 7.2.0.0 - 50.36%
42. ZoneAlarm with VET Antivirus version 6.5.722.000 - 44.65%
43. A Squared Anti-Malware version 2.0 - 43.28%
44. A Squared Free version 2.0 - 43.28%
45. Zondex Guard version 5.4.2 - 41.73%
46. Comodo version 1.0.0.4 - 41.02%
47. Solo 4.0 version 3.1.0 - 40.83%
48. Protector Plus version 7.2.H03 - 37.04%
49. Quick Heal version 8.00 - 33.66%
50. PC Door Guard version 4.2.0.35- 24.13%
51. AntiTrojan Shield version 2.1.0.14 - 24.11%
52. VirIT version 6.1.9 - 21.39%
53. Trojan Hunter version 4.2.924 - 13.44%
54. Trojan Remover version 6.5.1 - 8.00%
55. Tauscan version 1.70.1414 - 7.70%
56. The Cleaner version 4.2.4319 - 6.03%
57. Hacker Eliminator version 1.2 - 1.70%
58. Abacre version 1.4 - 0.00%
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With regards to Elevon's post from what I've read on the site it's very subjective.
It's also 6 months out of date now as well.
As for Rickyt's post - well if you had AVG 7.1 on there and then moved to 7.5 and it detected a trojan well sorry I wouldn't touch it with a big stick - surely 7.1 should have detected that?
I, personally from experience, would stick with a bigger manufacturer due to it being the entire security of the PC. Someone along the lines of Symantec, Sophos, Mcafee, etc.
M.
It's also 6 months out of date now as well.
As for Rickyt's post - well if you had AVG 7.1 on there and then moved to 7.5 and it detected a trojan well sorry I wouldn't touch it with a big stick - surely 7.1 should have detected that?
I, personally from experience, would stick with a bigger manufacturer due to it being the entire security of the PC. Someone along the lines of Symantec, Sophos, Mcafee, etc.
M.
m4cc45 said:
Th reason it found the trojan regardless of what version that was on the laptop was ,they hadn't updated anything .including Spybot that was 202 days old. Make no mistake , AVG is very good and has a lot of people using it without any problems .
The only reason for the new version was that AVG were stopping support for v7.1 ......January 2007.
I recently got a link for the free Active Virus Shield from AOL and it too is very good .You just had to submit an e-mail addy for your reg key which you put in on installation .No it does'nt load any rubbish with it , I'm using it on another PC . It's made by Kaspersky and I've heard of so many good things about Kaspersky over the years .
rickyt said:
...The free one is not meant to be used in a 'commercial' environment. Only private single home use tbh.
You LEA should be advising you of what to run if you aren't sure. The teacher's laptops would normally just be covered by the network so should be using whatever the server has... sophos for instance.