Just Replaced NORTON with ZONE ALARM..
 

Got rid of Norton..........

Installed Zone Alarm instead...

Good move?

YES. Norton is shit :2 cents:

I used to use Zone Alarm . . . thought it was pretty cool

Zone Alarm is awesome, Norton is a piece of shit and has been for years.

I used Zone Alarm since 99 or whenever it came out. I switched to Norton 1 month ago. I switched back to Zone alarm yesterday.

Norton fucking sucks and interfered with a shitload of stuff. Zone alarm won't bother you. It will let your programs work and silently stop anything nasty. :thumbsup

i use mcafee

i like it

nothin beats hardware :)

Yes, Norton should stick to virus'

EEKS!

agreed.

i recieved a gift from an online buddy of mine, he gave me a year susbscription for Norton and i fuckin canned that within a month and moved with my local broadband firewall/anti virus service instead.:2 cents:

NORTON is a magnet for viruses, just my experience.

:2 cents:

Let us know, I am getting frustrated with Norton too :mad:

The only Norton program worth a shit is Ghost. All the rest fucking suck and really fuck with your computer.

zone alarm is junk



but so is Norton.

Yup :thumbsup

classic drive by :)

eh coconut shells is not a hardware firewall ok :glugglug

been using panda titanium for the past 2 months works great.

Kaspersky Anti Virus is what I use on my XP box. :thumbsup


Linux = less virus problems .. :winkwink:

I heard Kaspersky Anti Virus is pretty good.

I got a CD and shirt from them at COMDEX a few years ago but never did try them out... heard a lot of good things also

http://jesusprotect.com

if you cant trust jesus to protect your computer, who can you trust?

;))

I never realized how much Norton Hijacks your system in the background.

Kaspersky was a very welcome change. It also catches tons more internet website exploits. Fucking Awesome!!! IMHO

I just did a little research on this and this site seems to recommend
Look n Stop
Anyone have any experience with it?

http://www.pcflank.com/art21.html

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
:thumbsup

Thought ZOne Alarm was just a Firewall?

Ok...

Im uninstalling Zone Alarm now..........

Installing the trial of Kaspersky..
Ill try the antivirus and the firewall thing...

Zone alarm seemed to really slow down my internet surfing.
IT was pretty significant..

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

nope they have an antivirus-firewall package.

Not sure i really need a firewall do i??? Isnt the Microsoft firewall with sp2 enough?? OR should i be using something else?

ANYONE KNOW IF I NEED TO BUY A SEPRATE FIREWALL BESIDES THE MICROSOFT ONE PROVIDED BY SP2???????

Im wondering if i just need to get the Kaspersky ANTI-VIRUS, or if I need to get the KASPERSKY Firewall also??

Hope so, I did this long ago.....now I should go back and read the whole thread, lol :)

Norton has been doing good here.

What exactly does Norton do in the background that makes it crap? I don't have anything protecting my new laptop and need to get something soon.

Buy a cheap linksys router, you don't need to worry about firewall thing :2 cents: I never used Kaspersky I can't talk. But I do use the new AVG Free edition and it rocks, updated, free, lightweight, fast and oh free :glugglug

Shit..

This is a Russian company..

Im sure its the best now. All the good viruses and exploits dudes seem to be from there so this shit is for real.. But can I trust em?

Hardware firewalls are more better :)


Get a router. :-)

Yeah i already have a Belkin Router.. Says there is a firewall on there.

That good enough in combination with the SP2 Microsoft Default firewall?

I have a router..

But how do tell if its any good?

:1orglaugh

For me it was schitzophrenic.

especially on messenger stuff. I would set permissions and it would let stuff thru' sometimes and them block it others.

It got to the point where if I had a problem I would first try to disable NIS and try again and sure enough, everything would be fine.

I installed in on my in laws comp also and there it won't do auto update which makes it pretty useless.

Krapola

If you router have a bultin firewall (and that you are not in the DMZ), just enable the firewall in Windows XP and you should be protected a lot more then 75% of peoples on internet :2 cents:

You should be fine hiding behind a linksys or other router that has a firewall buit into it and then MS SP2's firewall on XP.

The Kaspersky guys know their shit. But with all software its to each his own. Personally I have tried it all and found that Kaspersky worked for me.

Let me know what you find out for yourself...

:1orglaugh

That's what I thought also. But if anyone knows Windows its the eastern block countries, almost like they have stolen the source code for windows from MS... lol j/k

I would disable the windows firewall. You don't want to have two software firewalls running at the same time or you'll really slow your shit down. I don't even use a software firewall anymore.

I have Panda from http://www.pandasoftware.com and have been using it for years. It's never failed me.

Ya, I have heard panda was an awesome anti virus also.

Sygate is pretty good

The free version of ZoneAlarm is awesome and has never given me any problems. I use that as my software firewall plus I have a Linksys a router with a hardware firewall. I run Norton anti-virus too. You need them all, really.

I've been using ZoneAlarm for 2+ years now without incident, it works for me.

I tried Norton, McFuckee, Panda, and that Russian one and nothing but trouble.

Free firewall: Sygate Personal Firewall.
http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm

Free Antivirus:
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

I use NIS2003 and it's work's great :thumbsup