Firewall/security options for Windows 7

Dick_Turpin99

Hi,

Have just made the great leap forward to windows 7 after a disastrous run with vista - night and day difference, really.

So when I had vista I was running zonealarm as a firewall, it used to give messages about certain activities of programs on the computer and gave the option to block (which I must say I appreciated).
Now the question is what do you think of running zonealarm with win 7, is it compatible or is there a better alternative?
Please bear in mind that for most of the year I am travelling on business, hooking in to third party wi-fis in various parts of the world & airport lounge internet space so I really need to be concerned about security

Would be interested to hear your experiences and suggestions for best way to tackle this.

Basil1234

right use to use zonealarm but just hacked me off in the end with all the questions do i want to allow this do i want to allow that? so binned it but yes does work with win 7 no danger and the mo they got a sale on.
http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-gb/cdn/2010/search/50off_3-c.htm?cid=W200002&lid=en-gb&source=ggl&medium=cpc&content=brand-uk-c&term=zonealarm

i personally use eset smart security just for ease of convienece.
http://www.eset.com/home/smart-security

Dick_Turpin99

Thanks for that Basil :beer: , I'm already running ESET home edn. a/v so maybe worth changing to their full security package, but have the remains of the zonealarm subscription to run

DCFC79

I use avira and windows firewall along with malware bytes on my windows 7, works ok, might look into changing the firewall though