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Re: [OT] ZoneAlarm alternatives ??



The best suggestion I can give you is NOT to use a software
firewall. They simply are not nessessary. Get a router, and you then
have a hardware firewall protecting you, and not slowing your
machine.

Only software you need is

Anti Virus - AVG
Anti Spyware - Ad-Aware
Anti Rootkit - F-Secure blacklight

the latter two only needing to run when you need them running.

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Dean Barrett" <dean@...> wrote:
>
> Has anyone got any suggestions for a lightweight anti-
virus/firewall product
>
> I'm getting fed up with Zonealarm hogging resources at the moment.
>
> I'm not sure which is best - previously Symantec seemed to work
fine on
> other machines but then seemed to slow them down. I also just
removed McAfee
> from my fathers laptop as that seemed to be having quite a
detrimental
> effect on performance.
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.

> Dean.
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>





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