Free firewall

westferret

I have a nw laptop currently protected by avg,adware se personal, spybot s+d and spybot keeps finding the spyware that takes out windows firewall by guess this means it becomes useless. Is there any decent free firewalls you can get as I want and if so can you tell me what they are or post a link.

Thank you

mikewebs

Try Zonealarm - I've been using this for a while and it's far better than McAfee's firewall. I think it's https://www.zonelabs.com

symy@nufc

comodo is a good one and its free try here hope this helps

Jelly_man

Sygate Personal Firewall is a very effective firewall, with an Intrusion Detection System and full Two-way activity scanning. Although Zonealarm, linked to in the first reply, is widely considered to be a much better free firewall.

westferret

Zone labs one looks good thansk for your help i'll use that. Now just need to wait till christmas

tawnyowls

I've found Kerio very good (http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio.cfm) - you get a 30 day free trial, and at the end, you can either buy the full version, or stick with the trial one, which then just downgrades itself so you don't have all the bells & whistles, but still protects you (see further down that screen for the differences).

GreenNotM

westferret wrote:

I have a nw laptop currently protected by avg,adware se personal, spybot s+d and spybot keeps finding the spyware that takes out windows firewall by guess this means it becomes useless. Is there any decent free firewalls you can get as I want and if so can you tell me what they are or post a link.

Thank you

Hi - have a look at adding MSWindows defender to your system - another freebie.

You may also want to run MRT.exe via Start >> Run... >> mrt.exe - This is MS Malicious Software Removal Tool. It should be on your system already via the automatic updates.

And of course work thru the spy/malware removal thread instructions

Jelly_man

Yeah, the spyware that you mentioned does sound like a serious problem. If you're not sure which website is giving you the spyware, install SiteAdvisor by McAfee to get indications of what websites are bad.

DrBenway

mikewebs wrote:

Try Zonealarm - I've been using this for a while and it's far better than McAfee's firewall. I think it's https://www.zonelabs.com

And how do you define "better than".

Is it easier to use for the average user or it is more secure and offers better resilence to a wider variety to threats and if so which ?

Mercenary

I thought I'd read that ZoneAlarm can conflict with AVG Antivirus ?

That's why I've got the Kerio firewall.

westferret

Zone alarm sounds best has any one had problem runnig it with avg or is any one running it with avg is so I'll avoid it or use it