Recommendations for virus scanner and firewall

salixfire · Post by **salixfire** » 2005-06-11 08:54am

Sorry if this has been posted before but do you guys have any recommendations for a firewall and virus scanner? (free if at all possible)

I am currently using McAfee for both these tasks but it has a tendancy of eating my system resources and bringing my computer to a stand still whenever I browse through my harddrive.

Thank you

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2005-06-11 08:58am

AVG Free edition
Sygate Personal Firewall

Both are free.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2005-06-11 09:08am

Windows XP sp2 firewall is good enough for a software firewall

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2005-06-11 09:19am

Lava soft Adaware se rocks.
Spybot s&d.
The xp fire wall & AVG Free edition are good to as has been mentioned.

salixfire · Post by **salixfire** » 2005-06-11 03:17pm

Cool. Thank you for the replies, I'll try those out.

Raven · Post by **Raven** » 2005-06-13 02:27am

I'd like to add Avast! to antivirus scanners. That or AVG will do you well.

For firewalls, I'll second Sygate Personal Firewall. Zonealarm is easy to use, but gives you less control over its configuration.
The XP firewall is good too; only thing against it is it's inbound only.