What Internet security suite do you think is the Best ?

Question

Note: I live in canada so some might not be avalible.

Answer 1

Norton 2007, it is the best suite out there and is lighter running than previous suites.

Avast 4 home is antivirus and firewall it is free and effective, and ultra light running. The program download is only 12Mb

pc mag gives avast 4 home 3.5 stars and Norton 4.5
only Zone Alarms had 4.5 all other Av programs and suites only got 3 -3.5 stars.

I do think that most suites use too much resources but they are a necessary "evil" windows XP firewall is not adequate (Vista's is) you need AV Firewall, antispyware, and zeroday protection. most of the time suites use less resources than all of the individual programs.

So I use Avast 4 Home for Antivirus and Firewall
Avast will work with other firewall apps if you are paranoid,

I recommend Outpost or commando as they work well with avast and are potent.

Ad Aware Se, Windows Defender, and Spybot S&D for antispyware

and cyberhawk for zeroday protection. (found under antispyware)

Answer 2

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Answer 3

As a computer technician I've found all security suites to basically suck. They are resource hogs, frequently interfere with critical applications, and in most cases provide functionality that you already have for free.

Get a good anti-virus application - JUST an anti-virus application NOT a security suite.

Use the Windows firewall.

Prevent SPAM by being a wary, educated user and scanning your system regularly with SpyBot Search & Destroy or AdAware SE.

Monitor memory usage in the Task Manager Performance tab. Memory in use should be under 200mb in a clean Windows XP machine booted to the Desktop.

Answer 4

software vs hardware firewalls ....
Most software in the market are all software firewalls to protect your PC from hackers.
A hardware firewall however is more integrated within your network card and offers better security; usually companies with servers have that, but fortunately NForce series have ethernet cards and you can install the Network Access Manager as a web based firewall with hardware integration.
If you have any of the Nvidia NForce mother board series, then that's some good news for you.

Answer 5

Norton

Answer 6

go to link below
for free programs

Answer 7

bsafe or CA

Answer 8

only one real choice if you want serious protection.....
NORTON ANTIVIRUS..... superb!

Answer 9

99% of all internet problems can be attributed to the wrong set of Web browser and Email clients in coordination of the
AV/ Spyware / Firewall software.


Get the following, all are free for a safe surfing experience, with proven track records and do not take up
system resources like Norton or McAffee.
install in SAFE mode with networking ( hit F-8 at boot time ), run them all in SAFE mode
with networking as you'll need it for the updates all the programs below will need.
Turn off RESTORE and the RECYLE BIN temporarily as virii can regenerate / reinfect even if you delete
them with both services on. After all the scanning and cleaning after a 2nd reboot and one last
scan do you turn both of them back on.

ANTI VIRAL

AVG (free) http://free.grisoft.com/


FIREWALL

ZoneAlarm http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp

WEB BROWSER - http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox

EMAIL use thunderbird. It has a good built in spam filter and learns when you teach it. http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird

SPYWARE

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

Once you set it all up create 3 email accounts..

a hotmail or yahoo account for web "verification", this account you will not care if it get spammed

a sub account ( from the master account )to your ISP that you use for logons, this is the one you use for personal
emails only to trusted people and banking, ebay and paypal. Never use the account for anything else than that,
you find spam is low to non existant if you follow this rule, and even if it does become spam laden, then you
can delete the account and create a new sub account and do all the email updates to ebay, paypal, banks and your
freinds.

finally your master account from your ISP, this one you NEVER use, it's only kept for creating sub accounts since
changing the master account is a real pain.


and if you have a wireless router follow these tips,


1. Use WPA encryption (WPA-PSK) it's less crackable then WEP.

2. Make a passphrase that is upper & lower case and has some numbers thrown in there as well, again harder to crack.
some like mAkE1t5eCurE0rel53 and as long as possible.

3. Use MAC access control so only you or authorized PC's can connect (even if you do have encryption turned on)

4. Turn off DHCP use static addresses.

5. Turn off SSID (and change it) unless your card really needs it (some do)

6. Change username/password of access unit front end

7. Ensure you have the usual firewall enabled on your PC.

8. Paranoia rules, turn WLAN off if your not using it :)


one last tip
control panel---administrator tools--services--messenger

right clik on it
stop the service
then disable it
save changes


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