NIS - should I just call it a day..

HLK

wolfman wrote:

Firstly, NTL are talking rubbish. Outlook can use POP/SMTP just like Outlook Express. I can't see how they'd know which of the two you were using. Setup your account correctly in Outlook and it'll run fine.

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they knew because they asked me when I called their support.. as I said the email started to arrive as soon as I disabled it. - not sure what I'd have to change in Outlook to switch it back on...



If I were you, I'd get rid of NIS. It's bloated and quite resource intensive. I'd go with Kerio Personal Firewall, it's free, light, and works very well. Combine that with Avast and you should be fine. Alternatively for about £30 you can get Nod32 which is one of the best AV's out there.

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Thanks for suggestion I'll go off and do me research now...

With regards to anti spam software, just setup rules in Outlook and "train" it and you'll eventually reduce or capture most of the spam you get.

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Thanks again

HLK

fayraz wrote:

I use NIS 2004 PRO and it does slow my system on boot up but after that it is fine.

But I might switch to Kerio, but don't you have to psy for it?

My version is NIS 2005, used toi be on 2003 or 4 and that wasn't too bad..

fayraz

wolfman wrote:

No, Kerio Personal Firewall is free. Within the product there is also a popup blocker which starts on a trial period but ends after 30 days, and you have to pay/buy a license to get it enabled again.

Limited free edition

Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use. For corporate use please see the pricing and licensing policies section.

For home users, Kerio Personal Firewall 4 is available in two flavors - the full edition and the limited free edition.

After installation, KPF works as the full edition for 30 days, after which it becomes the limited free edition.

Limited free edition does not provide the content filtering capabilities such as blocking pop-up windows, ads, VB scripts, cookies, etc. and other extra features. Please see the comparison table for more details.

This is what I read from their website, because I was going to uninstall Norton and go for this.

Donnie

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html & http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/trial_zaFamily/trial_zaFamily.jsp?lid=home_freedownloads work for me.

HLK

Update - done. NIS is no more! So far so good, running AVAST & Kerio. Still thinking about NOD32 as suggested by wolfman - but as I have been happy to rely on AVAST without a problem on the laptop - I thought 'why not'.

Good news , can now watch my news clips wothout a problem.
Thanks for the help guys. Just meeded a bit of a push.