whats the best firewall?

[staggeringman]

i have spywareguard ,safeguard pop up stopper,xoftspy,avg,zonealarm,ad-aware and panda!i know its better being safe than sorry but it is affecting me getting on the internet because when panda is running all i keep getting is server not found. so could someone tell me which is the most efficient,its the firewalls that is causing this problem cheers!

[entwisi]

Linux!

You seem to have multiple versions of AV. This can often cause problems. You should only need one AV as long as you keep it up to date. As for pop up stoppers etc if you start using Firefox you don't need any third party software. This will make life far simpler to manage your PC and make it a lot easier to solve problems like you are experiencing.

Ian

[vorlon24]

I was thinking that was probably overkill as well!

Some av software does conflict with others, so one good one is best, as long as you keep it up to date.

[Neal]

A good FREE anti virus and what not can be found here, It's AVG: http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php

To purchase, after using Norton Interent Security, I would strongly suggest Mcafee Internet Security. I find it amazing!

[staggeringman]

Originally Posted by Neal

A good FREE anti virus and what not can be found here, It's AVG: http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php

To purchase, after using Norton Interent Security, I would strongly suggest Mcafee Internet Security. I find it amazing!

i have the avg and it worrys me when i check it that there is never any viruses in the vault? yet when i run ad-aware it picks allsorts up and quarantines them.

[mez]

i have spy bot search & destroy too.

[vorlon24]

I saw in Which? magazine a few months back that Adaware and Spybot were the most effective programs when used together

[Mick]

Originally Posted by staggeringman

i have the avg and it worrys me when i check it that there is never any viruses in the vault? yet when i run ad-aware it picks allsorts up and quarantines them.

staggers dont worry avg and ad-aware are looking for differant things what ad-aware is looking for is NOT a virus as such .
avg IS looking for viruses .

[andrewb]

I use Sygate Personal firewall, it's very good
and I use Kaspersky Antivirus.. I HATE the likes of norton/mcafee.. they don't seem to cut it for me, dosn't seem to detect as much as they should and seem very resource heavy in that they take forever to load unless you go for the enterprise editions..

[angiebaby]

Originally Posted by staggeringman

i have spywareguard ,safeguard pop up stopper,xoftspy,avg,zonealarm,ad-aware and panda!i know its better being safe than sorry but it is affecting me getting on the internet because when panda is running all i keep getting is server not found. so could someone tell me which is the most efficient,its the firewalls that is causing this problem cheers!

Best firewall and spy wear is McAfee

[harwood red]

well when I got my new comp it had mcafee on trial on it so used that for a couple of months then I found a disc (thanks to mick after mcafee had let a trojan through and mick came and sorted it!!) for ez armor that had come with the comp which was the full upto date version. I've found it great and it automatically searches for updates when you go online

[vorlon24]

I use Trend PC-Cillin, and not had any problems with it so far.

The best firewall you can have is probably a in router, rather than through software, but then who wants to fork out for a router if you don't need to?

If you want to set up a network you will need one though

[entwisi]

Technically you don't need a router to set up a network You could just use a hub or even (although VERY complicated) you could daisy chain PCs with 2 network cards in each and then setup routing tables although it would be a REAL ball ache to do and maintain.

fx:Takes off techie hat once again.

Ian

[staggeringman]

ian we are not as clued up as you, would love to know more about what these little boxes can do ? but just dont have the time?

[mez]

my fire wall is "kerio" it is very efficient.