New antivirus and firewall required

16-08-2005, 15:14

hi,
my free 12 month subscription to mcafee antivirus and firewall is coming to an end this month and I wont be renewing it because im far too tight. I know that there are lots of free anivirus and firewall software available on the web but can anyone tell me what the best ones are to save time 'experimenting'? your advice would be greatly appreciated.

thanks all

Jules · 16-08-2005, 15:16

Avg for virus and zone alarm for firewall are good and both free

marky · 16-08-2005, 15:17

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Originally Posted by Jules

Avg for virus and zone alarm for firewall are good and both free

thats what ive got and never any trouble

16-08-2005, 15:19

i'll give them a try, thanks for that!

Mal · 16-08-2005, 15:21

I use avast antivirus and Kerio personal firewall. No problems yet. Avoid Norton though

16-08-2005, 15:22

am i right in thinking that NTL provide free antivirus and firewall?

if so, are they any good?

marky · 16-08-2005, 15:23

and have a look at this

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ight=antivirus

Jules · 16-08-2005, 15:24

I think they do now but I have never used them so I can not comment on them

MovedGoalPosts · 16-08-2005, 15:26

Moved to Security & Virus Discussion

nffc · 16-08-2005, 22:27

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Originally Posted by Mal

I use avast antivirus and Kerio personal firewall. No problems yet. Avoid Norton though

Seconded. Avast/Kerio is my config and it works well.

We have to support Norton, and honestly, it really is problematic.

aliferste · 16-08-2005, 23:45

I decided to move away from AVG for a wee change and now use BIt Defender. Seems to be the Bizz

Raistlin · 16-08-2005, 23:49

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Originally Posted by aliferste

I decided to move away from AVG for a wee change and now use BIt Defender. Seems to be the Bizz

I'll second that, been a (very) happy user of Bit Defender Pro for quite some time now - it's rock solid, updated every day, and really easy to setup and configure

Stuart · 16-08-2005, 23:57

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Originally Posted by Mal

Avoid Norton though

I bought Norton last year when I upgraded my PC to service pack 2 (I had problems with McAfee when I installed SP2, which later turned out to be faulty memory). Soon after I bought it, I regretted the decision. It slowed the PC down , and was a b**ch to install under service pack 2 (I eventually managed to get it to install by installing SP1, then Norton then SP2). It slowed my PC down.. My main PC (an Athlon 64 3000 with 1 gig Corsair DDR400 ram and multiple 7200rpm HDDs) actually ran more slowly than my Laptop (despite this having a 3 Ghz P4 with half a gig of slow RAM and a 5400RPM hdd), which was running McAfee.

The main desktop is now running Avast! antivirus. I still run ZoneAlarm Pro though (the Free one is good though).