Which Antivirus and Firewall

[asdf]

used to use Mcafee and Sygate.
Sygate is no longer developed
Mcafee is slowing down my system to the point of
it being unusable. Right now using Symantec but am
concerned that it's not protecting my system as much
as Macafee did. What's everyone recommendation
as to AV which is easy on the resources and yet
has high rate of detections. What about a good firewall.
Right now I am using ZA 6.0

thank you

 

[--Alias--]

used to use Mcafee and Sygate.
Sygate is no longer developed

Please see:

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,8132-order,1-page,1/description.html

Mcafee is slowing down my system to the point of
it being unusable. Right now using Symantec but am
concerned that it's not protecting my system as much
as Macafee did. What's everyone recommendation
as to AV which is easy on the resources and yet
has high rate of detections. What about a good firewall.
Right now I am using ZA 6.0

thank you

For an anti virus I use and recommend Avast. It's free and can be
downloaded at http://www.avast.com

Alias

 

[Drew Tognola]

If you are willing to pay for security, I recommend Kaspersky Internet
Security v6.0.

Drew

 

[Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User]

AVG and Zonealarm are good.. stay with them..

 

[--Alias--]

AVG and Zonealarm are good.. stay with them..

Avast and Sygate are better. Change.

Alias

 

[Bruce Chambers]

used to use Mcafee and Sygate.
Sygate is no longer developed
Mcafee is slowing down my system to the point of
it being unusable. Right now using Symantec but am
concerned that it's not protecting my system as much
as Macafee did. What's everyone recommendation
as to AV which is easy on the resources and yet
has high rate of detections. What about a good firewall.
Right now I am using ZA 6.0

thank you

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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Bruce Chambers

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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

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[Bruce Chambers]

Avast and Sygate are better. Change.

Alias

Unfortunately, Sygate has been acquired by Symantec; it's no longer
free, and its been long enough so that Symantec's "corporate" focus on
the bottom line may have started to affect quality.


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Bruce Chambers

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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrum Russell

 

[--Alias--]

Unfortunately, Sygate has been acquired by Symantec; it's no longer
free, and its been long enough so that Symantec's "corporate" focus on
the bottom line may have started to affect quality.

Please see:

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,8132-order,1-page,1/description.html


Alias

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Please see:

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,8132-order,1-page,1/description.html


Alias

Er... That review is over a year old, and made by a magazine that both
accepts advertising from the companies whose products it "reviews" and
often recommends such out-right dangerous products as registry cleaners.
It's hardly what I'd consider a trustworthy source.


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Bruce Chambers

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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrand Russell

 

[--Alias--]

Er... That review is over a year old, and made by a magazine that
both accepts advertising from the companies whose products it "reviews"
and often recommends such out-right dangerous products as registry
cleaners. It's hardly what I'd consider a trustworthy source.

Well, I use Sygate that came with my SystemSuite5. SystemSuite6 also has
it and V-Com, to my knowledge, hasn't been acquired by Semantec. The
download from PC World is indeed Sygate so I'm confused at this point

Note, though, that I did not say PC World was good or bad but that
Sygate, free, is still available.

Alias

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Well, I use Sygate that came with my SystemSuite5. SystemSuite6 also has
it and V-Com, to my knowledge, hasn't been acquired by Semantec. The
download from PC World is indeed Sygate so I'm confused at this point

Note, though, that I did not say PC World was good or bad but that
Sygate, free, is still available.

Ah! I see your point. Sorry.

But how old is that version? Sygate was, I'll admit, a good product at
one time; I used it myself. I just don't know if the older versions
still to be found for free downloading can detect the latest threats.


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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

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[--Alias--]

Ah! I see your point. Sorry.

But how old is that version? Sygate was, I'll admit, a good product
at one time; I used it myself. I just don't know if the older versions
still to be found for free downloading can detect the latest threats.

You are much better qualified to test it than I. Why don't you download
it and check it out?

Alias

 

[Bruce Chambers]

You are much better qualified to test it than I. Why don't you download
it and check it out?

Alias

It's not 64-bit compatible, and I don't presently have a working 32-bit
machine.


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Bruce Chambers

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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrand Russell

 

[--Alias--]

It's not 64-bit compatible, and I don't presently have a working
32-bit machine.

I'll check it out. I have the old one on my hard drive and I will
compare the two .exes.

Alias

 

[Plato]

used to use Mcafee and Sygate.
Sygate is no longer developed
Mcafee is slowing down my system to the point of
it being unusable. Right now using Symantec but am
concerned that it's not protecting my system as much
as Macafee did. What's everyone recommendation

Use one or more of the free anti-virus programs:

http://www.bootdisk.com/utility.htm