The Best Security Suite ??

activ8ions · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:29 am Post subject: The Best Security Suite ??

I've been wondering what is the best security suite...i've tried AVG, Sophos, ZoneAlarm, Norton, PcCillin, McAfee and some other...i end up using ZoneAlarm SS. If u have any other suggestion... pls do post...thx
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shankz · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:30 am Post subject:

I use Kaspersky Anti-Virus. It's the best ^^;
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1ce · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:10 pm Post subject:

Norton is probably the best of your list.

CGY · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 3:35 pm Post subject:

I use Norton right, so I sa Norton is the best probably.

KamiNoSeigi · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 4:50 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I think Norton is the best on your list, I've had bad experiences with McAfee though

1ce · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:53 pm Post subject:

My old computer uses McAfee. It's got 250 virus's that cannot be removed.

Jsy3k · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:20 pm Post subject:

activ8ions · Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 5:11 am Post subject:

some of my friends recommends me AVG..
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Raiden · Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 9:33 am Post subject:

Yes....AVG's kinda good too...when Norton wasn't able to delete one of the Viruses in my PC...AVG did it. And AVG's free also...which is gonna be my backup anti-virus program when my SBC anti-virus expires.
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Lucifer · Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 1:12 pm Post subject:

Do you mean firewall or antivirus ?

For firewall, the so-called best one out there is Zone Alarm but it is quite unstable. There are several problems such as memory leak and vsmon which is quite serious when using p2p sharing program (Bittorrent). CPU usage is often full and the RAM usage is pretty high. Besides that, the vsmon.exe crashes often (for me it crashes every 7 hours and display a message asking you to reboot). ZA Lab team gives a temporary solution - disable auto update, turn off antivirus monitor etc but all that doesn't work for me.

It has other problems, too many to list out so check the user forum if you are interested. I got fed up with ZA and switched to Agnitum Outpost since it doesn't use as much RAM and CPU usage as ZA. Even so, the protection level is quite high and i love it.

Click here to test firewall

Just click proceed and click the buttons such as common ports, all service ports to run the tests. For me, Zone Alarm failed one test but Outpost got perfect score. You will have to configure Outpost to work properly and it does involve a lot of technical stuff but to me, it's way better than Zone Alarm crashing every 7 hours.

For antivirus, i used to have avast! but switched to Nod32 which received the most award in Virus Bulletin. I won't say avast! is bad but it does consume more memory and CPU usage is higher. Nod32 is known to be the antivirus which uses the least cpu usage and memory but offers a good protection against viruses, worms etc.

http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/products.xml?table
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hdice3 · Conscript Joined: Jun 11, 2005 Posts: 147

Norton is my favorite, tried zonealarm but i didnt like it
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Schlurcher · newbie! Joined: Aug 23, 2005 Posts: 3

Well, I don't like security suites. Since Service Pack 2 for Windows XP they became obsolete anyways. Just use the Internal Firewall and AntiVir. Both for free and they get the job done. If you configure them properly...

Sujusi · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:01 pm Post subject:

PC-Cillin worked for me but I rely on Ad-Aware right now.
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