NIS or Zonealarm ??- Opinions

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I'll make a system upgrade , and up to now I always used NIS
+ NAV .
I am considering changing for another firewall and maybe
another antivirus program .
I'd like to hear opinions from previous Symantec users , with
recomendations to alternative firewall and antivirus program ;
Comparisons will be usefull too .
Thanks
 
Zone Alarm and Sygate both offer excellent free firewalls - I have been
using Norton AV for about 7 years - no problems with any of these - just my
opinion

Bill
 
cbcb52 said:
I'll make a system upgrade , and up to now I always used NIS
+ NAV .
I am considering changing for another firewall and maybe
another antivirus program .
I'd like to hear opinions from previous Symantec users , with
recomendations to alternative firewall and antivirus program ;
Comparisons will be usefull too .
Thanks
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I'll be doing the same when my updates for NIS2003 run out.

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I'll make a system upgrade , and up to now I always used NIS
+ NAV .
I am considering changing for another firewall and maybe
another antivirus program .
I'd like to hear opinions from previous Symantec users , with
recomendations to alternative firewall and antivirus program ;
Comparisons will be usefull too .
Thanks
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Norton Internet Security: no, no, no. I was hacked whilst using NIS 2002.
Now I use Zone Alarm as a firewall. Use Vet AV for the Virus side of
things. System scans take about 1/3 the time NAV took, and virus
definitions are updated automatically each day, not once a week.
 
cbcb52 said:
I'll make a system upgrade , and up to now I always used NIS
+ NAV .
I am considering changing for another firewall and maybe
another antivirus program .
I'd like to hear opinions from previous Symantec users , with
recomendations to alternative firewall and antivirus program ;
Comparisons will be usefull too .
Thanks
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I much prefer Symantec's offering. I have never been able to get ZoneAlarm
Pro to run without errors. Symantec offers Norton Internet Security 2003,
which includes its firewall (a great one, by the way) and Norton Antivirus
2003(the "standard" for anti-virus protection). Symantec is offering big
savings on upgrades if you already own a Symantec product, such as Norton
Personal Firewall or Norton Antivirus.
 
Greetings --

I've been very happy with Symantec's Norton Internet Security,
which includes Norton AntiVirus, Norton Personal Firewall, parental
controls, privacy controls, and ad blocking. (Just the elimination of
many of the pop-up ads on the Internet make the price worth-while.)
Never had an infection or an intrusion, nor any other kind of problems
attributable to Symantec products.


Bruce Chambers

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I'll make a system upgrade , and up to now I always used NIS
+ NAV .
I am considering changing for another firewall and maybe
another antivirus program .
I'd like to hear opinions from previous Symantec users , with
recomendations to alternative firewall and antivirus program ;
Comparisons will be usefull too .
Thanks
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FWIW I'm using the Kerio firewall
http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html

and F-Secure AV
http://www.f-secure.com/

would not go back to Norton now - I like the minimalist non intrusive
(but effective!) approach.

Regds Lock
 
cbcb52 said:
I'll make a system upgrade , and up to now I always used NIS
+ NAV .
I am considering changing for another firewall and maybe
another antivirus program .
I'd like to hear opinions from previous Symantec users , with
recomendations to alternative firewall and antivirus program ;
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The free version of Zone Alarm and the free AVG antivirus, do an
entirely adequate job,
 
They are all good Programs. I have Norton Systemworks and ZoneAlarm Pro.
Neither consume any resources (although many erroneously believe that Norton
does).

Bobby

CZ said:
no
cost and using far fewer
resources

James:

NIS is much more powerful than ZA free.

Features that NIS has that ZA free does not have:
ActiveX controls
Socket based firewall rule settings for:
Action
Direction
IP address or URL
TCP port
UDP port
ICMP type
Tracking

Fragmented IP control
Java Applets control
Parental control
Password protection for configuration of Options
Privacy controls for:
User agent
Referer
Private info you enter for:
User names
email addresses

Program component control:
When a program uses an external software component to connect to the
Internet, check firewall rules for each component. This ensures that Trojan
horses and other malicious programs cannot attach to safe programs and evade
detection. [note that ZA free cannot do this as it is an application gate]

Spam control
"Web content" control of:
User agent
Referer
Animated images
Scripts
Flash animation

Controls for:
Cookies
Pop-up adds
Ad blocking

And NIS includes NAV.
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