Firewall software

NOD32 for AV.... Dunno for firewall, have always used a hardware firewall or the old Sygate, which is no longer free :o
 
Using F-Secure at home with inbuilt firewall, spam filters, IE sheild etc etc, seems fairly good to me, although I had to disable it doing the RDNS checks on the mail as it slowed it down far too much.
 
Do you have a router with a built in hardware firewall? If so you can leave it as that and be secure. Software firewalls only really block hackers getting out easily after the hardware. ;)
 
Sygate and Avast, they both free, so probably the best choices around :). (Although I use NOD32).
The_KiD said:
Using F-Secure at home with inbuilt firewall, spam filters, IE sheild etc etc.
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Don't touch f-secure with a barge pole tbh.
 
Bit Defender came top on this review site beating Kaspersky and NOD 32

http://anti-virus-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

I use it for AV, Spy-ware, Spam, Firewall, there is also parental control which I've disabled. Virus definitions are live and I think the program checks every 10 minutes. I find it much better than Norton or McAfee which I've had in the past.
 
Phnom_Penh said:
Sygate and Avast, they both free, so probably the best choices around :). (Although I use NOD32).
Don't touch f-secure with a barge pole tbh.
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any reason?

F-Secure is serving me very well at the moment.
 
The_KiD said:
any reason?

F-Secure is serving me very well at the moment.
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Yeh, I've just spent ages fixing a machine it screwed up :mad:. The user had installed F-Secure with Tesco dialup, then installed it with TalkTalk broadband, without removing the tesco one, and then the tesco one was removed, and the parental control part of the program blocked all http access to and from the machine. Both programs were uninstalled, reinstalled ad nauseum, and lots and lots of methods were used, all in vain :(. In the end I just reinstalled windows lol :\.
 
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