What's your AV/Firewall setup?

Mr Rivers

Hey my free virus definitions with McAfee expired so I'm wonderin what all of ye use as your pc defenses and what'd be the best to replace it with

aidan_walsh

AV: avast!
Firewall: Sygate Personal Firewall. (Sygate has been assimilated by Symantec? Nooooooooo!)

angelofdeath

avg and zonealarm, no complaints

Ruu_Old

AVG and Sygate, works grand

Laguna

For my P.C. - AVG & ZoneAlarm
For my Mac - Built in OSX Firewall & No antivirus

Mac daddy

laptop using Avg + sygate.
Linux - virus nope - suse built in firewall.

Rollo Tamasi

i use AVG and Smoothwall(NAT)
and McAffee Personal Firewall
my pc is never sick, well almost never sick! its a bit sick at the moment tbh!

Voodoo2

Norton AV 2005 and Zone Alarm Pro

Orionetheus

Mostly common sense...

dont open files I dont recognise....

But I use Adaware and Syntamantec AV Corporate edition.

Also a router is a hardware firewall...only REALLY good hackers can get past firewalls like that.

aidan_walsh

Oriontheus wrote:

Also a router is a hardware firewall...only REALLY good hackers can get past firewalls like that.

I don't know what you're smoking, but I'd like some please.

Orionetheus

Routers are firewalls....it's a little known fact...when you have one between your modem and your computer it makes it VERY difficult to break into your network. The only ports that are open are the ones you want open...

Sir Oxman

NOD32 and Outpost 3 with Kaspersky as second AV on laptop

Sygate Free and AVG Free on desktop

Any opinions on Avast Free?

byte

AVG Antivirus Free

Sygate Personal Firewall

Malafus

Orionetheus wrote:

Routers are firewalls....it's a little known fact...when you have one between your modem and your computer it makes it VERY difficult to break into your network. The only ports that are open are the ones you want open...

Oooh, so close, but yet so far away. SOME routers have hardware firewalls. Not all. What you are thinking of is NAT - Network Address Translation. This forwards incoming requests to wherever they are supposed to be going (or not). NAT does make it more difficult to attack a system, because it'll "ignore" requests on ports other than those specified. Still, it's not bulletproof - a firewall is needed too. NAT won't stop anything getting OUT...

CrimE

Personally I use zonealarm security suite.

I find it excellent, it does the job and isnt bloated. Ive used almost all other software available and zonealarm suits me best.

Gandalf23

Ruu wrote:

AVG and Sygate, works grand

ditto