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AVG virus scan - Mainly because its free. Seems ok, and is updated regularly. User interface looks like it was made by\for a 5 year old, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Anyone have any exerience with it?

BlackICE Firewall - Came highly recommended and appears to work A-OK. Turned off application protection though, seemed more hassal than it was worth.

So whats everyone else using and why?

Norton AV. I use it because it was the first one I got and learned to configure. I am currently in my fourth version of it. I don't know that it is the best. What I do know is that after four years of risky activity plus 300+ spam a day, I have not received a single virus - although I have found and quarantined hundreds.

Firewall - I use my router.

Norton Antivirus, Zone Alarm. NAV because I prefer having a big, resourceful company doing the bug hunts than mom and pop, Zone Alarm because there is little I need a desktop firewall to do (my router handles other firewall functions).

Norton Antivirus - It has always worked flawlessly for me, and the Symantec website is a great resource for any emergency virus issues. I've seen too many report of AVG finding viruses but not being able to clean them, so I haven't really bothered with it except for installing it on my father's PC as a stopgap until he gets something better (which he'll probably never do, but at least he has some protection this way).

Firewall - Sygate personal firewall (free). I used to use Zonealarm, but Sygate has been much more stable with none of the connectivity issues and slow performance that I used to get with Zonealarm.

P.S. Black-ICE used to get panned because it didn't help much against unauthorized outbound traffic -- don't know if that has been fixed or not.

Norton for Antivirus, still using older edition, may need to upgrade this year.

Sygate PFW for firewall (free edition is fine).

No anti-virus on my main rig, AVG on all the others.
Zone Alarm on all.

Norton Antivirus just because I am used to it. I recently purchased the 2005 and looks like I may start to shope around next time. To much other stuff installed when all I wanted was a good antivirus.

AVG & ZA, plus the linux firewall/router.
More importantly, no Internet Explorer or Outlook in use.

AVG & Sygate

Avast Antivirus and Sygate Personal Firewall (Free Ed)

Atalante wrote:AVG virus scan - Mainly because its free. Seems ok, and is updated regularly. User interface looks like it was made by\for a 5 year old, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Anyone have any exerience with it?

BlackICE Firewall - Came highly recommended and appears to work A-OK. Turned off application protection though, seemed more hassal than it was worth.

So whats everyone else using and why?

Just as an FYI AVG version 6.0 will no longer be supported after Dec. 31rst. 7.0 came out in November and it doesn't look as much like a five year old made it. Make sure you are using the newest version so you continue to get virus definition updates!

I am trying to decide if I want to switch to Norton Corporate, as I can get a free legit copy for home through work. Is there any reason to switch from AVG to Norton?

I use ZoneAlarm firewall at home, and until recently, was using Sophos AV (corporate licensing at work allows us to use it at home), but it was a real pain to try to get updates for it. I'm trying out ZoneAlarm AV, but am unable to dlownload the updates for it now because my service keeps dropping in the midst of the download (and it's not a file I can pick off with getright or another downloader).

Linux, behind a NAT firewall/router.

Any way to turn OFF the resident shield in AVG version 7? You can disable all the scanning features but it's still there. WTF?