Re: Recommendation for free firewall?

Well, got the PC and have ended up installing McAfee full security suite.
Got it for £20.

I was trying to keep the costs down as much as possible as I also run a
laptop with McAfee on, and my daughter has moved back home with her PC. No
doubt she'll be whinging when her subscription is due for renewal.

I did used to have Norton, but its firewall kept interfering with my
broadband connection (making it dead slow). I haven't had problems with
McA, so will just have to pay for the security.

"Jason" <dont.spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "ML" <miriam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> I'm going to use AVG anti-virus for my new PC. Is the Windows firewall
> good
>> enough or is there another (preferably free) that anyone can recommend?
>>
>> Ta very much!
>>
>> Miriam
>
>
> Hi Miriam
>
> I'd normally recommend Sygate's firewall, but then I didn't know they'd
> just
> been bought out. It's still worth downloading the free version I think,
> but
> bear in mind you might be looking for a new solution sooner rather than
> later.
>
> Zone Alarm is quite good (I used it on Win2000 before Sygate, but had a
> few
> problems with it on another machine running XP Home, hence the switch to
> Sygate).
>
> If you're feeling adventurous there are a selection of open source
> firewalls
> at:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&exact=1&forum_id=0&group_id=0&atid=0&words=firewall+windows&Search=Search
>
> although I'll admit I've not tried any of them. Most of the other
> software
> I've got from SourceForge in the past has been good though.
>
> As for anti-virus software, I've found AntiVir (http://www.free-av.com/)
> to
> be pretty good, and like AVG it's free.
>
> Also, don't forget to get yourself some anti-spyware tools as well.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Cheers
>
> Jason
>
>


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