What Security do you use?

piggeh

I use Avira (which cost me £10) but in security tests it had the highest detection rate for viruses. It's also very unintrusive.

I dont use a soft firewall as my Netgear router (DG834G) has a firewall built in.

Generally I use Firefox 3 at the moment, Vista 64 fully updated.

I would recommend Avira - I know you have to pay but for £10 for one of the best on the market (if not the best, detection-wise), it's well worth it.

superscaper

piggeh wrote: »

I use Avira (which cost me £10) but in security tests it had the highest detection rate for viruses. It's also very unintrusive.

I dont use a soft firewall as my Netgear router (DG834G) has a firewall built in.

Generally I use Firefox 3 at the moment, Vista 64 fully updated.

I would recommend Avira - I know you have to pay but for £10 for one of the best on the market (if not the best, detection-wise), it's well worth it.

Which security tests? And what antivirus are you using? Avira is the name of a company not a product. For example Avira Antivir Personal is free.

Personally I wouldn't rely on a hardware firewall unless you're manually editing the port settings of the router every time you install software. Hardware firewalls are good for protecting from attacks on your network in general but not really for individual pcs on ports that are open by default.

piggeh

Avira AntiVir Premium

Not sure on the tests I looked at, at the time, but here's a recent one:

http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2008_02.php

It's difficult to find many anti-virus comparisons really.

I have tried a couple of the online security scans that check your firewall for vunerabilities and it all gomes up green. I don't like software firewalls generally. I prefer to occassionally need to forward ports than install the likes of zonealarm.

Saying that I might toy with the idea of upgrading avira to include a firewall in the near future.

moneysaveguy

For my home computer I use:
I use firefox 3 instead of IE.
Windows firewall disabled (use my router and ISP's firewall).
Avira Free Antivir (lighter than all the others, completely free and seems to catch more stuff).
Peerguardian
Gmail (gmail filters all that spam stuff you might actually click on that is potentially dangerous).

Not using IE and not opening dangerous emails is 90% safety rigtht there.

superscaper

moneysaveguy wrote: »

For my home computer I use:
I use firefox 3 instead of IE.
Windows firewall disabled (use my router and ISP's firewall).
Avira Free Antivir (lighter than all the others, completely free and seems to catch more stuff).
Peerguardian
Gmail (gmail filters all that spam stuff you might actually click on that is potentially dangerous).

Not using IE and not opening dangerous emails is 90% safety rigtht there.

Never had a virus using IE7 at all. I did with IE6 and once with FF.

linge289

I have a mac and a pc with vista home edition

With the vista pc i use Avast! home edition, and everything else (firewall ect) is the windows standard programmes, which isnt brilliant but i rarely use this computer anyway (i used vista for a year as my main computer and then bought a mac....)

My Mac has nothing, as it doesnt need it. and thats the way i like it :T

Alibear27

I use free AVG and we've just had a home pc security workshop at work (pretty good for an employer to do it, really), and the trainer said "that's fine, but you need Internet Security software to run along side it". Can anybody suggest a good one/ combination of different ones?

Cheers
Ali

espresso

Alibear27 wrote: »

I use free AVG and we've just had a home pc security workshop at work (pretty good for an employer to do it, really), and the trainer said "that's fine, but you need Internet Security software to run along side it". Can anybody suggest a good one/ combination of different ones?

Cheers
Ali

Have you not read this article here.

Alibear27

Yes I have, but which bits of this are classed as "internet security" rather than anti virus or firewall?

Cheers

hethmar

I used to use all the freebies, avg plus zone alarm, spy bot etc. but then I saw trialpay when I was about to download the latest free zone alarm firewall. You go to their site, buy something from one of their merchants (I got a tenners worth of ink from ink club - I needed it anyway and I use ink club) and I got a year's free zone alarm security suite which has the full monty and was rated No.1. Bargain



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