Windows users! What brand of internet security do you use?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

Poll question: Windows users! What brand of internet security do you use?

That is Firewall/AV combination.

Note: If you do not have a Firewall on your system *regardless* of the Operating System turn off your computer right now and get one!

[johnnie]

1. I use Sygate

And Avast.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

2. I forgot about those. Vote on other please.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

10. I use Sygate and AVG..............

what can I say, I love free shit.

[VOX]

3. Other: Kaspersky Personal Security Suite, which I like very much...

It includes:
Personal Firewall Kaspersky Anti-Hacker 1.8
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 5.0
Kaspersky Anti-Spam Personal

Easy to manage. Excellent product and protection, IMO. :thumbsup:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

5. Do you ever run Spyware/Adware detection on you system?

How does it turn out?

On Edit:

Thanks!

[VOX]

11. Yes, I use Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition 1.06. When I run it...

It usually finds *nothing*. On rare occasions, there will be a cookie in my browser cache it doesn't like, but that's about it. If I cleaned out the cache before running Ad-aware, it wouldn't be finding anything.

[ghostsofgiants]

4. I use Norton AntiVirus plus my router's firewall

[Crazy Guggenheim]

6. Same here.

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. Ah, you want to know how to hack us, don't you?

No way! You wanna hack me, you're gonna have to figure it out on your own.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

8. Oh! So you don't have any!!

:popcorn:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

9. Edited for *combination of the above.*

[Crazy Guggenheim]

12. Thanks everyone.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

13. As a computer repair professional

I can say with certainty that Norton is broken. Every virus creator out there knows exactly how to get past it, and so far Symantec has not taken steps to rebuild their program.

On the other hand, McAfee not only detects a great many virii, but it also detects trojans, spyware, and other unwelcome software. It has an on-access scanner that actually WORKS.

And their firewall is less intrusive than Norton's.

[Splatter Phoenix]

15. Mmm, Norton sucks.

Norton couldn't protect a candy bracelet inside a locked combination safe covered in chains locked in Fort Knox.

[IChing]

16. Norton anti virus for mac, causes so many problems

on an apple computer I have not used it.
Norton has issues in the windows world for sure.


I had AVG on my PC that was lost in the fire and liked it.

[havocmom]

25. We gave up on Norton and are using AVG. Amazing! Our computer isn't

at death's door like we thought it was. That last Norton edition was a pain in the ass... AND they never did send the rebate which was promised when Havocdad bought the last version. :grr:

Nice to have the computer working again. It was grinding slower all the time before we drove the stake through the Norton program!

[Akoto]

14. I use Freedom Internet Security.

This service was made available to me without charge after I signed up to Adelphia's cable internet. I must say that I've been very satisfied with it so far. It has both anti-virus and anti-spyware, and I've seen it catch and eliminate both on many occasions. Freedom also has a nice firewall, which I layer over another firewall.

Freedom updates every three hours, too!

[sendero]

17. Zone Alarm..

.... along with a router/gateway, is all I need.

I don't use "live" virus scanning stuff, they use too much CPU/IO and they generally suck as well.

Never been damaged by a virus yet. (knocks on wood) :)

[bridgit]

18. enigma ~

http://www.enigmasoftwaregroup.com/login.php

[supernova]

19. Zone Alarm

You can download the basic version for free. And it works fine. As of right now, since I downloaded the latest patch on Wed?

15344 Intrusions have been blocked since install (of the latest version)
2613 of those have been high-rated

[sakabatou]

20. Combo

Zone Alarm, Norton, Spybot S&D, Symentec, and Microsoft's AV

[Jamison]

21. What I use...

I use Symantec Anti-Virus Corporate Edition + Zone Alarm Pro.

[imperial jedi]

22. I use to have Norton now use

Sygate and AVG. free is best.

[TimeChaser]

23. AVG and Zone Alarm

[Lady Effingbroke]

24. ZoneAlarm, AVG, AdAware, Spybot, SpywareBlaster, MSAS.

Also Crap Cleaner and CleanUp! to clean out temp. files, etc., and VoptXP to defrag.

[mvd]

26. Kaspersky Pro and Zone Alarm Pro

Kaspersky Anti-Hacker still seems a little underdeveloped.

[mvd]

27. BTW

If Kaspersky Anti-Hacker gets better, I'll use it, because I'd rather not use an American-made firewall. I'm not high-risk, but who knows what backdoors there are for our government. Can't find the link, but Symantec even said they'd allow a trojan through if the government requested.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

28. That link I'd love to see!! Are you sure about that?

[mvd]

29. There's this

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/11/27/av_vendors_split_over_fbi/

And then..

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001/12/11/fbi-virus.htm

Guess it depends on who you believe. I am suspicious.

[Submariner]

30. Zone Alarm Security Suite is A-OK

Symantec products have always bogged down my system slowing it down. I heard about that problem, but really noticed the improvement when I switched to ZASS.

[Guy Fawkes]

31. Zone Alarm is worth it...

instead of pinging back "acess denied," when someone pings your computer (let's say a hacker) Zone Alarm returns "no computer here". Handy.

[mvd]

33. Actually, ZoneAlarm drops the packet

Meaning that no computer can be seen at all.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

32. Linux (and stringent iptables rules for good measure)

Clarification: iptables is Linux's native firewall.

What's a virus? :evilgrin:

[AngryAmish]

34. Prayer

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