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What is your favorite firewall/antivirus?
Zone Alarm Professional
38%
 38% 7
Sygate Personal Firewall Professional
27%
 27% 5
Norton Antivirus/Firewall
5%
 5% 1
Panda Antivirus/Firewall
0%
 0% 0
Titanium Antivirus/Firewall
0%
 0% 0
McAfee Antivirus/Firewall
5%
 5% 1
Avast! Professional Edition/Firewall
22%
 22% 4
Voted : 0
Total Votes : 18
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Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:52 pm Reply and quote this post
I personally think that Zone Alarm is the best firewall, and Kaspersky is the best Anti-virus. But thats just me. :)
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Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:15 am Reply and quote this post
ya me to kaspersky build 388 and zone alarm pro 6
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Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:19 pm Reply and quote this post
Being the cheap bastard I am I use the Zone Alarm firewall (the free version) and AVG free.  Both have served me quite well.
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Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:07 pm Reply and quote this post
I use my router.  Works great in fact.
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Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:49 pm Reply and quote this post
Oh, and to refrase my last post... There is no \"best\" anything. Everything has its own good sides, and it's bad sides. So as some people say, pick carefully.
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Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:56 pm Reply and quote this post
At the host-level an outbound filtering software firewall (Zonealarm) gives you nothing, but a false sense of security.

I use the SP2 firewall + Kaspersky.


Last edited by KoolDrew on Mon Nov 28, 2005 6:08 pm; edited 1 time in total

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Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:21 pm Reply and quote this post
How about Sygate Personal Firewall?

I use if for Windows XP Pro SP2 32-Bit & a hardware firewall & Tiny Personal Firewall 64 for Windows XP Pro 64-Bit Edition.

They seem to work without any prob's. ;)

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Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:25 pm Reply and quote this post
I also use Sygate. It actually detected a hack into my system, while the SP2 firewall did not. That is why I use both.
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Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:47 pm Reply and quote this post
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How about Sygate Personal Firewall?


Outbound filtering firewalls offer no security advantages at the host level over the SP2 firewall.

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Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:11 am Reply and quote this post
I have almost always used zonealarm, and it's never really failed me.. unlike kapersky and sygate.

I also use AVG, which is relatively good.. not perfect, but then again no virus scanner is.
I used avast and even had a legal license for norton, but I went back to AVG.

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Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:21 am Reply and quote this post
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At the host-level an outbound filtering software firewall (Zonealarm) gives you nothing, but a false sense of security.

I use the SP2 firewall + AntiVir.

I know that, but I'd still rather use a seperate firewall than the SP2 one.

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Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:24 pm Reply and quote this post
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At the host-level an outbound filtering software firewall (Zonealarm) gives you nothing, but a false sense of security.

I use the SP2 firewall + AntiVir.

I know that, but I'd still rather use a seperate firewall than the SP2 one.

Yes, I agree ;)

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Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:34 pm Reply and quote this post
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I know that, but I'd still rather use a seperate firewall than the SP2 one.


Why? It does not help security at all.

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Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:10 pm Reply and quote this post
Personally, I use Kerio Personal Firewall, Windows Firewall, and Norton Antivirus.  Not saying it's the best; just what I use.  :)
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Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:05 pm Reply and quote this post
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I know that, but I'd still rather use a seperate firewall than the SP2 one.


Why? It does not help security at all.

The ZoneAlarm firewall has a good reputation, it's what I used with SP1 and its never let me down so I choose to use it over the SP2 firewall.

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