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| | Since there are threads for Best antivirus and Spyware programs, was wondering what people were using for Firewall (other than Microsoft Vista's ). Kaspersky crashed my system twice, so i'm looking for a different one.... |
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Last Login: 3/19/2007 2:07:40 PM
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| | I've always trusted Zone Alarm.....HOWEVER: I installed Vista Ultimate last night and tried to install Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite 2007. On the box, it says "Windows 2000/XP/Vista Ready (italics mine). Now....when i see the words "Vista Ready", I assume that the manufacturer actually tested the product on that system. Low and behold, when I tried to install it, I got an error message that the version does not work on Vista! Helloooooo?? I went to their homepage and, of course, they have a Premium Help Line at 3$ a minute. I finally found their email, but only by going through their online automated "Ask Your Question" feature. I am real curious as to what their response will be. ZA's firewall is probably the best in the world, but it seems that they were not ready for prime time. From what I can gather at their web site, it would appear that none of their products are really "Vista Ready". I wouldn't be surprised if Norton and McAfee are in the same boat. I would just stick with the Windows Firewall for now and wait for ZA to get their act together.
------------------------Running Vista Ultimate on: Pentium 3.2E CPU, Asus P4C800-E mobo, 2Gb PC-3700 RAM, ATI Radeon X800XL 256Mb graphics card, Audigy 2 ZS Platinum sound card, two WD Raptor 74GB hard drives, one WD 240GB IDE drive, Sony Double-Layer DVD-RW, Plextor DVD-RW, Antec P-160 case, one empty wallet, ...  |
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| | Yes, I too am waiting until ZoneAlarm works fully with Vista. I tried Comodo which looks good, and supposedly works despite Error msgs during install, which installs fine, but I couldn't get it to turn "on" (even after turning off Microsoft's Firewall)....so I had to uninstall it  |
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Last Login: 2/11/2007 7:44:42 PM
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| What version of Kaspersky were you running?? I've been running it for about a week now and have had absolutely no problems with it. It's the best firewall/anti-virus software that I've ever come across. In fact, I tried Mcaffe, Norton and windows live onecare and none of them found the 3 trojans that were on my system. Installed Kaspersky and it found them within 5 mins...
System (Based on Compal EL80): Intel Core2Duo T7200 2.0Ghz, 2GB DDR2 667Mhz RAM, 100GB SATA 7200RPM HDD, NVidia Geforce Go 7600GS, 15.4" Widescreen 1650x1050 Display...sucker screams... |
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Last Login: 3/6/2007 1:36:46 PM
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| | Kaspersky is very good. I have it and had no problems whatsoever. I used to use Zonealarm also. but it's not compatible as of yet. I will go back to it once it is though. |
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Last Login: 2/16/2007 2:31:10 PM
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| | Waiting for ZoneAlarm and using NOD32 |
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| | Kaspersky Internet Security is the best hands down. I've never had any problems with it and its not a system or resource hog. You can tune it to your own level of paranoia which increases or decreases drain on system resources and performance. For more experienced and less paranoid users you can turn certain features off which slows things down such has on-access file scanning which is for the really paranoid. I just have web anti-virus, mail-antivirus, anti-hacker and anti-spy. |
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| pc-cillian built in firewall.
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| | i just got kaspersky with vista business, im impressed so far. alot of options to choose from due to your computing style. |
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| spacecowmoomoo (2/19/2007)
Kaspersky Internet Security is the best hands down. I've never had any problems with it and its not a system or resource hog.Mmm...first time I've heard someone say that it's not a resource hog. AVG on the other hand, now that's not a resource hog. Not as good as Kaspersky, but who cares, how many times did careful people actually get infected? I do use Kaspersky, but only for on-demand scanning, but it never finds anything bad. The best virus protection is the person controlling the computer in my opinion. |
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