AntiVirus 'n Firewall ... which is the best choice ?

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Hi to all

Which AV and FW you use in your vista box ?
I have an experience with One Care, AVAST (with UAC on)

Thanks a lot

Ale
 
Personally I use Grisoft's AVG free and my router has a built in firewall
(hardware) but I still use the Vista firewall as well....no problems at
all...I had the same set up on xp for years
 
Personally I use Grisoft's AVG free and my router has a built in
firewall (hardware) but I still use the Vista firewall as well....no
problems at all...I had the same set up on xp for years
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Depending on the router, it's just a NAT implementation, few of them are
actually firewalls. NAT does not make a router a firewall.

AVG has about the slowest detection ratings of anything I've seen/used in
years. We have a couple Sororities where the only users that are ever
compromised are the ones using AVG (properly installed, properly updating
daily).
 
ALe said:
Hi to all

Which AV and FW you use in your vista box ?
I have an experience with One Care, AVAST (with UAC on)

Thanks a lot

Ale
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I'm using the Windows firewall along with my Linksys router, and NOD32
for anti-virus.
 
Same combination on my laptop (NOD32 + Windows Firewall over Linksys router)
and so far, no problems at all. NOD32 is fast and light weight with system
resources.
 
ALe said:
Hi to all

Which AV and FW you use in your vista box ?
I have an experience with One Care, AVAST (with UAC on)

Thanks a lot

Ale
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I use the inbuilt Vista firewall, in combination with a few scripts that
provide an outgoing popup message for connecting applications.
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I use the inbuilt Vista firewall, in combination with a few scripts that
provide an outgoing popup message for connecting applications.
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fine !! what type of script do you use? vbs/wmi ?
 
and you use ??
Leythos said:
Depending on the router, it's just a NAT implementation, few of them are
actually firewalls. NAT does not make a router a firewall.

AVG has about the slowest detection ratings of anything I've seen/used in
years. We have a couple Sororities where the only users that are ever
compromised are the ones using AVG (properly installed, properly updating
daily).
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and you use ??
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Symantec Corporate Edition AV for workstations and servers 10.2 on all
windows based computers, XP/Vista and all Windows servers 2000/2003, and
it's very light on resources. Do not confuse it with Symantec Client
Security or Symantec Small Business Edition.

I use Windows Firewall or Tiny, but we sit behind a full WatchGuard
Firewall Appliance at most locations, so we don't see much malware at
those sites.
 
I WAS a Norton fan for yrs right up until Norton 2006 and it destroyed my
machine...Symantec of course denied this...When I got rid of Norton all
problems vanished.....Norton 2004 was great but then they ruined it
 
ALe said:
Jon ha scritto:

mhm "Fiko" !!! can you show us a little example of script ??
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It's currently a combination of 3 scripts (+ an activex control for a bit of
UI).

One that automatically creates a rule for outgoing applications (ie
automates what would otherwise be the need to work through the 'Advanced
firewall' dialog boxes), a similar one for services, and one that provides
the popup for blocked applications.

I'm kind of expecting the security industry to come up with a full-blown
firewall substitute at some stage, with a decent outgoing alert. If they
don't, then I'll consider putting together a distributable package / making
something available for download.
 
It's currently a combination of 3 scripts (+ an activex control for a bit of
UI).

One that automatically creates a rule for outgoing applications (ie
automates what would otherwise be the need to work through the 'Advanced
firewall' dialog boxes), a similar one for services, and one that provides
the popup for blocked applications.

I'm kind of expecting the security industry to come up with a full-blown
firewall substitute at some stage, with a decent outgoing alert. If they
don't, then I'll consider putting together a distributable package / making
something available for download.
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This http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/order.html was suggested to me
in another thread, and so far seems to be doing the job, though early
days ...........
 
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