Which Anti Virus and Firewall

sammybo22

Many thanks for all your answers. Word of warning though, Vista does NOT like Zone Alarms Firewall, I got the blue screen of death a few times and thought I had wrecked my laptop by turns out its all to do with ZA even though ZA say it is compatible for vista (Stay Clear)!!!!

missile

Yes I second that ZA does not work with Vista. I have had such good results with AVG, I am considering paying for their packaged suite.

LuciferTDark

Avast is a good Anti Virus program, plus I'm using the Windows XP Firewall & a router (which includes one as well)

Donnie

sammybo22 wrote: »

Many thanks for all your answers. Word of warning though, Vista does NOT like Zone Alarms Firewall, I got the blue screen of death a few times and thought I had wrecked my laptop by turns out its all to do with ZA even though ZA say it is compatible for vista (Stay Clear)!!!!

Is that the new version for Vista(7.1) or the XP version(7.0)?

Vista Beta available here: http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/beta/index.html

sammybo22

I did not use that link Donnie however I chose to download by clicking on ZA firewall (same site as you link) it then prompts youto choose XP or Vista I then choose vista and let it download thats when all hell broke loose!!

HistoryGirl_3

chrispbug wrote: »

AVG Antivirus and Zone Alarms Firewall - totally free and both very good

I second that. Norton is a waste of money and completely hogs your system resources. Ad-Aware is also free as is Spybot Search and Destroy both are very good.

HistoryGirl_3

sammybo22 wrote: »

Many thanks for all your answers. Word of warning though, Vista does NOT like Zone Alarms Firewall, I got the blue screen of death a few times and thought I had wrecked my laptop by turns out its all to do with ZA even though ZA say it is compatible for vista (Stay Clear)!!!!

Sorry for the double post, but I have Vista Ultimate and ZA and it works fine on my laptop.

espresso

sammybo22 wrote: »

I did not use that link Donnie however I chose to download by clicking on ZA firewall (same site as you link) it then prompts youto choose XP or Vista I then choose vista and let it download thats when all hell broke loose!!

Are you sure that you fully uninstalled Norton and re-booted before attempting to install ZA? Many users worldwide use ZA with Vista!

mercman1969

hi all,

trying to help a mate over in Germany who is having trouble with his pc (not yet a member of MSE)
Can somebody please point me in the right direction for
AVG
Ad Aware
Kiero

told him to get rid of his nortons and install from the links i send him

Cheers

Pete

espresso

mercman1969 wrote: »

hi all,

trying to help a mate over in Germany who is having trouble with his pc (not yet a member of MSE)
Can somebody please point me in the right direction for
AVG
Ad Aware
Kiero

told him to get rid of his nortons and install from the links i send him

Cheers

Pete

See the link in post #3.