What;s the best Internet Security

[cammara]

Hi All,

I currently have Bitdefender installed on my computer, but the subscription is nearly up, so i was looking around at alternative security.
I have had no problems with Bitdefender but was just curious to know what you guys thought was best.

[William]

Try this.

Signed

A. Fanboy

[cammara]

cool i've heard a lot about this NOD 32, am i right in saying that i would need to install a seperate firewall.

[AvengerUK]

See my thread here: http://www.idnetters.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,1851.0.html

Towards the end ive asked a few things about NOD32

Yes, i think you need a seperate firewall

[cammara]

Thanks Avenger see what you mean about fan boys lol

Did you get NOD32 on board?.

[Rik]

Hi Cammara

I've been using NOD32 for a couple of years. I've tried most of the rest - partly because I used to get them as part of the rations when I was a mod (sysop) on Compuserve. I've never found anything as effective as NOD32, nor as fast, nor as light-footed in terms of resources.

It does carry out some of the duties of a firewall, but by no means all of them. If you are behind a NAT/SPI firewall on a router, you may well feel that you don't need a software firewall. I continued to run one for six months after moving to a router. In that time, it found nothing to complain about, so I stopped using one. I do sweep for malware each week, but I don't seem to get much (probably because I spend most of my time in here ).

[AvengerUK]

"It does carry out some of the duties of a firewall"

Are these duties likely to interfere with Kerio? (Im assuming its the IMON part!)

"Did you get NOD32 on board?"

About to, as soon as the above in answered

If your looking for a seperate firwall, i recommend:

Kerio - This is free limited, i use the "payed" verson, and its brillient!
Zone alarm - used to use this. Havent for about half a year now, so im unsure how that is these days!

[Rik]

NOD won't interfere with any firewall I've tried, Avenger, if anything it will enhance it.

[AvengerUK]

Thanks rik, Im going to dl & install it now (assuming AVG wont throw a uninstall fit...macafee used to give me large headaches, used 1 month of a 1 yr license lol)

EDIT:

Well, install was quick (limited by my reading speed!) - and its now running. First thing that hits you...is that its actually easy to turn stuff on and off, and control it...something that MacAfee wouldnt let me do (or avg for that matter) - Resource wise...it using 21,000 (ish) k of memory, and that seems to be two processes. Avg used around 5-10, but spyware doctor used alot also!

Ive posted in "my thread" with another question btw rik!

[William]

am i right in saying that i would need to install a seperate firewall.

Version 3, which most people are waiting for will be the next big release and that will include a firewall.

It will be a full-blown security suite a la Norton etc. There will still be the straightforward AV version available though.

I'm not sure this is a good idea. 'Suites' tend to be bloated, slow and offer more things to go wrong. However, if anyone can do it properly, Eset can.

The main reason that NOD is so fleet-of-foot is that it's written in assembler and not these new (post-1970's), programming-by-numbers languages.

(Hides in anticipation of people with flame-throwers appearing out of the woodwork  ).

[mrapoc]

Or you could try Zonealarm Security suite, never had it myself but its supposed ti be decent. But I highly recommend NOD32 as it is

[Rik]

The main reason that NOD is so fleet-of-foot is that it's written in assembler and not these new (post-1970's), programming-by-numbers languages.

Oh how I agree with you, William. C and its variants really started us on the path to bloatware. Visicalc and 1-2-3 in their early incarnations were so much smaller and speedier. OK, they weren't as fancy, but the core functions which most people use were there.