Thread: Best Anti Virus and Firewall?
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Old 17-04-2011, 19:27   #33
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Re: Best Anti Virus and Firewall?
Another vote for NOD32 here, light on resources, few false positives, picks up the test viri I have at my disposal(through my work), blocks access to websites it thinks are dodgy.

Firewall is a combination of a linksys router running DD-WRT and the one built into Windows 7.

Websites are browsed with firefox with the noscript addon.

Users are their own worst enemy, the times i've cleaned a machine up for someone only to be contacted very shortly after with words to the effect of "application x no longer works, i've downloaded it again, that got it working, but now my PC is slow again", or in other words, Application X stopped working because it relied on spyware/malware which I removed, only for the user to re-install. When advised of this user will say something along the lines of "I can't live without application X, i'll just have to live with the PC being slow". It's at this point I distance myself from said user.
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