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Originally Posted by r00t

NOD32 http://www.eset.com/
and
softperfect firewall. http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/

Or go the whole hog and get Linux, such as zenwalk Linux http://www.zenwalk.org/

Fully agree with NOD32.

A simply superb AV product, and although you have to pay for it, my second year subscription is half of what I paid the previous year.

It's footprint is one of the smallest I have seen for an active AV program, and it rates as one of the highest quality AV products out there.

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Originally Posted by RS100

Some times some web pages take ages to load i been told it could be my firewall or anti virus i am useing zone alarm & avast anti-virus i have tried disabling them both and web pages do speed up ,

Should i change them if so what ones work well with VM(NTL) i have also been told i can use a router as a firewall if so i have a netgear wgt624 in the shed can i hook that up as a firewall,

Thanks

If you have XP, try rebooting into Safe mode with networking, and see if the pages load quicker then. If they do, then it could be either your AV or firewall.

Also, make sure you are not specifying a proxy in your browser, that could be the cause of the problem.