Any good firewall, AV, Anti-spy stuff

[dirio49]

Hi, i just need to find some light weight firewall that is hopefully free.

any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks:)

Edited December 20, 2006 by dirio49

[Movie Junkie]

Hi, i just need to find some light weight firewall that is hopefully free.

any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks:)

There are a number of good "free" firewalls available. ZoneAlarm has one. I have used their Pro version (not free) for a number of years and have never had a problem.

[dirio49]

I know i tried the suite for while but too resouse intensive. I think maybe the zonealarm anti-viral better.

I will see how it goes.

 

thanks for the suggesting.

 

BTW nice sig, especially like the firefox one

Edited December 20, 2006 by dirio49

[bootsector]

Sygate Personal Firewall: FREE and lightweight!

 

http://www.oldversion.com/download.php?idl...c0e3f1a6a8e5367

 

This is the latest freeware version! Great piece of software

 

Regards,

 

bootsector

[Shamus_McFartfinger]

I know i tried the suite for while but too resouse intensive. I think maybe the zonealarm anti-viral better.

I will see how it goes.

 

thanks for the suggesting.

 

BTW nice sig, especially like the firefox one

ZoneAlarm isn't resource intensive. It just sits there like a stale bottle of piss waiting for something to happen. If you get the ZoneAlarm security suite and enable the anti-virus stuff then it's a different story. For free stuff, you can't go past ZoneAlarm for a firewall, AVG for anti-virus, Ad-Aware for spyware and Spybot Seek and Destroy for trojans/backdoors/dialers.

 

 

EDIT: And get a router if you don't have one.

[Movie Junkie]

I know i tried the suite for while but too resouse intensive. I think maybe the zonealarm anti-viral better.

I will see how it goes.

 

thanks for the suggesting.

 

BTW nice sig, especially like the firefox one

I wasn't talking about the suite. They have a free stand-alone firewall. With very few exceptions I don't use "suites" I prefer individual programs.

[zacoz]

For free stuff, you can't go past ZoneAlarm for a firewall, AVG for anti-virus, Ad-Aware for spyware and Spybot Seek and Destroy for trojans/backdoors/dialers.

 

EDIT: And get a router if you don't have one.

 

Have you been looking at my system configuration Shamus ? I'm running all of these - although without memory resident modules for Ad-Aware & Spybot.

[lfcrule1972]

Well I use ZoneAlarm Pro, Spybot and Ad-Aware !! Well you can never be too careful....

[Movie Junkie]

Well I use ZoneAlarm Pro, Spybot and Ad-Aware !! Well you can never be too careful....

[/quoteI'm using those three programs as well, but I also use Spyware Blaster and SpySweeper. Like you said you can never be too careful.

[lfcrule1972]

Mmm haven't got either of those - YET !!!!

[blikkies]

Are the free products reliable or are they compromised versions of the retail versions. AVAST antivirus is good but is it as good as the retail products. Why would one product be free and the other a pay product. What I am gettin at is am I compromising my security by using free products

[Movie Junkie]

Are the free products reliable or are they compromised versions of the retail versions. AVAST antivirus is good but is it as good as the retail products. Why would one product be free and the other a pay product. What I am gettin at is am I compromising my security by using free products

I can't say you would be compromising your security but you would be getting less features. What you should do is compare what the free version of a product gives you to what the paid product gives. I know that at one time, and maybe still, you could compare the free ZoneAlarm to the paid ZoneAlarm Pro right at their web site. You might find that to be the case with other products as well.

[jack]

This is worth a look: Spyware doctor for free.

[lfcrule1972]

The Zonealarm comparison chart is available here:

 

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/comp...list_comparison

 

(I use ZA Internet Security Suite)

[dontasciime]

a router.

 

Edit what about windows firewall

[lfcrule1972]

Edit what about windows firewall