What would you recommend for a home network that is hooked to a cable modem with a desktop and wireless laptop?
Money is not an object. I don’t want free or shareware… I want to purchase but it has to be good.
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I say Norton for Virus scan :k: and also Internet Security firewall I guess. It most effective (and user friendly).
Lekin, just recently I had installed the lastest version of Zonealarm, I admit it is a lot less of a system hog compared to Norton. But it is a lot harder to configure. It kept blocking some of the connections without which I cannot work normally (because I have a webserver running on my PC) so I just removed it again and back to Norton for now.
When you install Norton (specially the Antivirus) then the system gets slower. Even starting up gets slow. So I have installed only installed the
Anyone looking for a great AV low on resources:
Try NOD32 http://www.eset.com/home/home.htm
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I’ve been testing out various firewalls recently and I think kerio is :k: … Avast is also quite impressive
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^-- me too
personally, I didnt like kerio that much.
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Getting a Dlink/3com/netgrear (etc.) Router with a built-in firewall would be a best solution for you.
As far as AV is concerned, Norton or Mcafee can be a choice.
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^Nothing like hardware firewall, netgear firewall definatly.
As much as i hate it, I have to admit Norton is a great product but only if doesn't craps out of you. I use sophos, its a great product but when I run NAV 05 on same machine after running sophos, it picks up a bit of crap.
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AntiVir is a great AV product… it dosnt strain the cpu as Norton does and its all free
Check it out http://www.free-av.com/
For firewall i’d reccomend Sygate very good stabil product http://smb.sygate.com/products/pspf/pspf_ov.htm
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microsoft anti spyware is pretty good for virus detections and sygate firewall, I like Norton, but for some reason it does not detect all the viruses. When I installed anti spyware it actually helped me get rid of all the spyware and viruses and it blocks all the incoming hacking attacks. Well, I am not a big fan of microsoft, but on some softwares they got lucky I guess, I am sure as other products this one might have bugs too, but I haven't come across one yet.
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kya hai, I like it. It has found a lot of viruses on my comp. am i wrong /
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^ you can't rely on an anti-spyware progrm to detect viruses, that's why
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I didn’t say I only have this or m relying on this 
, I have several other progs, but I don’t like most of them.
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Sygate personal firewall is king...and the best antivirus is is little knows app called nod32...its eats the least system resources and is more accurate than norton and updates almost daily.
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my advice: for firewall Get Kerio
and for AntiVirus, no doubt, get Kaspersky
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NOD32 has my vote. It is ABSOLUTELY the best anti-virus out there.
Check out what the Geeks at Neowin have to say:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=526708
If u r registered memeber, u can see the results of the poll as well
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how about this .. u can feel safe playing tetris that u’re fully protected by this awesome antivirus..
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nod32
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Has anybody tried comodo firewall?
FG, what is your technical level/know-how? If you can move around, I would advise getting a Cisco 831 router for your cable connection and wireless Access Point for the wireless PCs.
If you can't go that route then just buy Dlink/linksys router with built-in AP from electronics store and you will be set!
For AntiVirus, I would say AVG (either the free or professional version.)
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I have avast - its really good and from what I know it makes you resgister like every year or so and that way you have the latest one all the time.
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Kaspersky