Firewall & AntiVirus upgrade or not

[tesco]

I have a three of them on the go.

Zone alarm

AVGfree 7

Sygate firewall.

Just to be sure as well i done the housecall online virus scan every once in a while as well.

you shouldn't use mroe than one antivirus (with realtime enabled) or firewall...they could be conflicting with eachother and making it less secure.

[digmen1]

Here's one for you.

I like to use a Spam bouncer program to bounce my dreaded spams.

I have used Mailwasher Free version for a couple of years and I am sure I get less spam that I would otherwise.

But since I installed AVG 7.00 the 2 programs do not seem to be compaptble and my machien crashes. So I have had to disable Mailwasher.

Does anyone know of a good spam bouncer that works with AVG ? and Zone Alarm ?

Its about time someone made a program to do all 3 jobs in one so there are no compatibilty problems.

Regards

Digby

Happy new year

[RealitY]

Ive been using AVG and Sygate for some time and very content.
As for ZA I it acn be utter shit at times even though I used to like it.

[killer04]

I recently installed Sygate Personal firewall 5.6 and my pc is running smoothly with it. It is much beetter than Zone Alarn 5.** series. As for antivirus i use AVG 7 free edition. It is really good. I havent had any problems with it so far.

[zapjb]

I recently moved from Sygate PF to Look 'n' Stop w/Enhanced Rules Set. I "moved" from Sygate because of problems w/.msi files when attempting to upgrade to v5.6. Otherwise I would NOT have given up on Sygate. And I will go back to Sygate (.msi problem fixed) in a flash if LnS "trial" stops working. LnS gives me all stealth readings on all online tests, including Sygate's. But Look 'n' Stop uses only 25-50% of resources that Sygate does.

As for Avs. I'll freak for sure if my KAV personal 5.0.156 stops updating. lol. It is the best AV by millions of miles imho.

[nsane]

i have to go with sygate. small memory footprint, while still retaining a descent array of features

kerio is ok, seems like a firewall ZA would make if they had some sense smaked into em but it lacked some features i liked in sygate, so i uninstalled it.

[fkdup74]

Its about time someone made a program to do all 3 jobs in one so there are no compatibilty problems.

not the greatest of ideas
ever hear of NIS?
piecing together a good security suite is, IMO, much better
you get to use components that do the job the way you want/understand
instead of being at the mercy of an "all-in-one"

take symantec/norton for example....
the corp AV clients are great, but the firewalls, anti-spam, etc are shit (IMO)

PestPatrol pwns for anti-spy/adware
AdMuncher pwns for popup removal
Sygate pwns firewalls
SAV/NAV Corp pwns AV apps

those are my two cents

[digmen1]

ever hear of NIS?
piecing together a good security suite is, IMO, much better

As I said whilst separate programs may be a good idea features-wise, there are often compatiblilty problems with them all having programs running in the background !

Just because Norton is SHIT (I agree) it does not mean that someone else could not make a good multi purpose utility.