Best Antivirus/firewall

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That time of year has come again where i need to renew my antivirus/firewall, iam running norton at the moment but ive got a feeling theres better ones out there like kaspersky.
Whats the most rated one at the moment?
 
Anything except Norton/Symantec LOL :D Kaspersky is good, but fairly heavy on resources compared to some of the competition. I've never had a problem with NOD32 (which has never failed to win VB100 awards every year since the 90s). NOD32 is SUPER light on resources, has a strong heuristics engine and is well written code (it's in assembly iirc, which is the cpu's native language - hence, lightning fast at running and no drain on resources).

You do need to SET IT UP PROPERLY for best effect but it's quick, easy, and so worth it :D

As for firewalls, so long as you have a decent router (i.e. a hardware firewall) I'd just be happy with that, and leave the XP default firewall running as an extra just-in-case.

EDIT: Be aware that you MUST completely remove Norton before adding in new AV products. Any two AV products on a PC will conflict and potentially disable each other. BAD idea. Norton is notoriously difficult to remove properly and acts almost like malware itself! Go HERE to download the Norton Removal Tool before proceeding with your new AV installation :)
 
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can i make a copy so i can install it after a fresh OS install? its just that i have bought vista 64 home premium and i would like my anti virus to be the first thing thats installed.
 
Rainmaker said:
Anything except Norton/Symantec LOL :D Kaspersky is good, but fairly heavy on resources compared to some of the competition. I've never had a problem with NOD32 (which has never failed to win VB100 awards every year since the 90s). NOD32 is SUPER light on resources, has a strong heuristics engine and is well written code (it's in assembly iirc, which is the cpu's native language - hence, lightning fast at running and no drain on resources).

You do need to SET IT UP PROPERLY for best effect but it's quick, easy, and so worth it :D

As for firewalls, so long as you have a decent router (i.e. a hardware firewall) I'd just be happy with that, and leave the XP default firewall running as an extra just-in-case.

EDIT: Be aware that you MUST completely remove Norton before adding in new AV products. Any two AV products on a PC will conflict and potentially disable each other. BAD idea. Norton is notoriously difficult to remove properly and acts almost like malware itself! Go HERE to download the Norton Removal Tool before proceeding with your new AV installation :)
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Is Kaspersky 7 heavily on resorces nowerdays? As when I had Kasp 6 it was using around the same if not lower resorces that NOD.
And I agree. Why pay for a firewall when Comodo works just fine. Been using it for ages now without one problem :)
 
DanMc07 said:
Is Kaspersky 7 heavily on resorces nowerdays? As when I had Kasp 6 it was using around the same if not lower resorces that NOD.
And I agree. Why pay for a firewall when Comodo works just fine. Been using it for ages now without one problem :)
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Why even use a third party firewall when Vista's built-in one works fine,better off with Vista firewall and hardware firewall in router then any third party software firewall.


I use Avast free edition,there are other free versions like AVG,antivir and all work in Vista x64 .

Paid AVs I have always liked Bitdefender and Kaspersky.
 
Elevon said:
Why even use a third party firewall when Vista's built-in one works fine,better off with Vista firewall and hardware firewall in router then any third party software firewall.
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i guess people like 3rd party firewalls because they offer easily configurable outbound protection. vista lets everything out by default and you have to set up manual rules for everything you want to block. you can't even configure it to prompt.

(i don't use any 3rd party firewall myself - just pointing out the reasoning :p)
 
marc2003 said:
i guess people like 3rd party firewalls because they offer easily configurable outbound protection. vista lets everything out by default and you have to set up manual rules for everything you want to block. you can't even configure it to prompt.

(i don't use any 3rd party firewall myself - just pointing out the reasoning :p)
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Also the first firewall to get the most attention from the mailware/viruses will be the one built into windows.
 
I'm using Norton as it is free with my internet provider but it sloooows the system down big time! Also know a mate who is having lots of probs with McAfee so wouldn't recommend these 2!!
 
I just got rid of Vista and rolled back to XP so I am/was looking for an AV/Firewall this week too.

I decided to go with Comodo, I didn't use this when I was with Vista, but I did use it a while ago on XP and found it to be excellent. It was light on resources, didn't bother me all the time and did it's job very well. I can safely say nothing has changed, except it is even better this time :D It uses barely any resources, doesn't slow my PC down like Zonealarm was when I tried it earlier this year.

As for A.V, I am probably going to use NOD32 - although I have considered just using a free AV, but I have tried most of the free ones before and in my opinion, NOD32 is absolutely worth the money. AVG missed 3 viruses in my PC about 12 months ago when I was using, and Avast used much more system resources than NOD32 and I just didn't like it.

I have used NOD32 for about 18 months before it was really good, VERY light on resources and easy to configure, etc. I haven't had a virus for about 3 years though, so I often wonder if it is really worth paying for an AV, but I do think NOD32 is worth it.

I think NOD32 and Comodo are really good together.

Don't forget anti-spyware either... I use Windows Defender and also the new updated version of Spybot S&D which I really like now.

Also, CCleaner is good for clearing up old temp files, junk, etc.
 
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