vista: anti-virus and firewall

[wrongun92]

Hi there,

I recently installed Vista on one of my pcs. Some of the programs that I had been using on WinXPta weren't compatible with Vista anymore namely nod32 and zonealaram.

Any recommendations for anti-virus and firewall for Vista please.
Please state why you think something is good:P

[BLaZiN]

Firewall - Pctools firewall works well and its free http://www.pctools.com/firewall/
Anti-virus - I use the newest version nod32 security suite which works well

[BLaZiN]

MeH double post :pinch:

[gnor]

I use AVG by grisoft. It's free and unobtrusive, and doesn't us up a lot of resources. I am behind a good hardware firewall, so I don't use a software firewall. I tried a freeware firewall on my laptop, but it interfered with the AVG email scanner, so i got rid of it. Just use the Windows firewall when I am out and about. For adware, I just run the free versions of SpyBot and AdAware. All of these have Vista versions by now, and unlike Norton, they are free.

[mera]

I've only tried Bitdefender so far and it seems to work quite well with Vista. They have a an all-in-one suite too.

[wrongun92]

Firewall - Pctools firewall works well and its free http://www.pctools.com/firewall/
Anti-virus - I use the newest version nod32 security suite which works well

did you have to manually tweak vista for nod to work?
If no which version are you using?

[BLaZiN]

Nope no tweaking involved.
I use vista home premium & ESET.Smart.Security.Business.Edition.& Home.Edition.v3.0.621 (32-bit)
Just a str8 install :)

[wrongun92]

ok I'll check that out. Good to know