Please recommend a good anti-virus and firewall program

[Blackadder]

Hi,

I require very good anti-virus and firewall programs. They can be seperate
and not bundled.

My system is a P4 Duo 6600, Corsair 2GB DDr2, Asus p5b deluxe motherboard,
xft geforece 7800gtx and an ADSL2 Siemens connection. And XP Pro Sp2.

I am quite hands on and prefer to update my programs manually.

I used to have ZoneAlarm Pro, and AVG. Then I switched over to AVAST.
Currently I'm using McAfee Security Centre 6.

But I suspect that McAfee is doing random scans on my harddrive. McAfee also
has a lot of stuff loaded into the RAM- included scheduled activities which
I can't seem to disable.

Any recommendations?

Cheers!

 

[Lou]

Hi,

I require very good anti-virus and firewall programs. They can be seperate
and not bundled.

My system is a P4 Duo 6600, Corsair 2GB DDr2, Asus p5b deluxe motherboard,
xft geforece 7800gtx and an ADSL2 Siemens connection. And XP Pro Sp2.

I am quite hands on and prefer to update my programs manually.

I used to have ZoneAlarm Pro, and AVG. Then I switched over to AVAST.
Currently I'm using McAfee Security Centre 6.

But I suspect that McAfee is doing random scans on my harddrive. McAfee also
has a lot of stuff loaded into the RAM- included scheduled activities which
I can't seem to disable.

Any recommendations?

Cheers!

yes. Read past posts in this group to learn about various programs.

 

[badgolferman]

yes. Read past posts in this group to learn about various programs.

You are one of the most helpful people in this group.

 

[Lou]

You are one of the most helpful people in this group.

Thank You <VBG>

BTW OP's Q is a little like asking what is the best car? Answer depends
on the desired uses.

Lou
I eat my peas with honey.
I've done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny.
But it keeps them on my knife.

 

[kenny]

ZoneAlarm Pro for firewall
Bitdefender Pro for Anti virus

ken

 

[Virus Guy]

My system is a ....

We don't need to know what CPU or motherboard or video card you have.

And XP Pro Sp2.

Well that's your biggest vulnerability problem right there.

I used to have ZoneAlarm Pro

You don't need a firewall.

You need a NAT router. You didn't mention if you have one.

What e-mail and browser programs do you use?

Do you have a hosts file?

Do you participate in p2p? Do you surf for warez or porn?