McAfee vs Nortons and other products

[b c]

What virus protection, firewall systems are the hardest to penetrate/least
likely to be broken? McAfee or Nortons or perhaps someone elses product?

2) Is it better to use one product or turn off facets of one to run say
someon elses firewall (like zone alarm).

 

[Rich Barry]

If you want to spend money then I would get the newest Norton Suite.
But, you can do Ok with say AVG Anti virus and
Zone Alarm both free versions. Also get Spybot Search and Destroy and
Adaware.

 

[darkshadow]

What virus protection, firewall systems are the hardest to penetrate/least
likely to be broken? McAfee or Nortons or perhaps someone elses product?

2) Is it better to use one product or turn off facets of one to run say
someon elses firewall (like zone alarm).

norton firewall is a piece of shit. if you want one that will give you
extreme protection, consider getting Blackice. it is the best one on
the market fot intrusions detection and advance application protection.
i believe that norton antivirus does the job.

 

[NoNoBadDog!]

What virus protection, firewall systems are the hardest to penetrate/least
likely to be broken? McAfee or Nortons or perhaps someone elses product?

2) Is it better to use one product or turn off facets of one to run say
someon elses firewall (like zone alarm).

*ANYTHING* but McAfee. It is total garbage.

Bobby

 

[NoNoBadDog!]

norton firewall is a piece of shit. if you want one that will give you
extreme protection, consider getting Blackice. it is the best one on
the market fot intrusions detection and advance application protection.
i believe that norton antivirus does the job.

Errm...IF you have blackice, I can be in your system in minutes.

Of course, as soon as you said NPF is a piece of shit, I knew you were
either an idiot or a troll, and your post doesn't live up to the level of
your average troll, so I guess that just makes you an idiot.

Bobby

 

[DL]

You will get conflicting responses
NIS & McAfee seem to use a lot of sys resources
NIS seems to come out well in reviews
AVG & ZoneAlarm, free versions, seem to work well for many.
Adaware/Malaware can cause allmost as many probs as a virus, for these you
need to use at least two specific scanners, eg Adaware/SpyBot/WinDefender,
as these infections are rarely dealt with by AV apps

 

[Leythos]

What virus protection, firewall systems are the hardest to penetrate/least
likely to be broken? McAfee or Nortons or perhaps someone elses product?

2) Is it better to use one product or turn off facets of one to run say
someon elses firewall (like zone alarm).

http://www.av-comparatives.org/

 

[Bruce Chambers]

What virus protection, firewall systems are the hardest to penetrate/least
likely to be broken? McAfee or Nortons or perhaps someone elses product?

2) Is it better to use one product or turn off facets of one to run say
someon elses firewall (like zone alarm).

You'll get nearly as many differing opinions as you will responses.

I don't think any security "suite" is a good choice. Use smaller,
less-resource-draining stand-alone products.

I used, and recommended, Norton Antivirus and then Norton Internet
Security, for many years, on Win98, WinNT, Win2K, and WinXP, all without
any significant problems. I had used McAfee prior to that. But it's
been several years since I've been tempted to try McAfee products. Their
quality seemed to take a steep nose-dive after they were acquired by
Network Associates.

However, when my subscription to Symantec's updates for Norton
Internet Security 2002 came up for renewal (at a cost substantially
higher than the preceding year's subscription), I decided to try less
expensive solutions. I downloaded and installed the free version of
GriSoft's AVG (http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php ) and the free
version of Sygate's Personal Firewall
(http://smb.sygate.com/free/default.php ). Both have proven to be
easily installed, easy to use, and quite effective. Additionally, I was
pleasantly surprised to see a small but very noticeable improvement in
my PC's performance, once I'd replaced the Symantec product.

Of course, since then, Symantec has purchased Sygate and ended the
distribution of the free firewall. Fortunately, there's still
ZoneAlarm, Tiny, Kerio, et al.

A recent comparison:

Retrospective / ProActive Test May 2006
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2006_05.php


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[b c]

Thank you for your responces. I've experienced more and more slow down in
boot time. I use McAfee and have the MS anti virus program on the machine.
Want to drop one but don't know which to drop. Current with McAfee but not
with the MS antivirus program.

I have Spybot but haven't run in a while, will do so cause I'm sure theres
been newer threats since I've last run.