Wa7idminuae Posted November 21, 2008 Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 Hi Everyone,,,I'm on Vista and used to have Sunbelt firewall and Kaspersky antivirus . When i tried the OpenOffice torrents to test my speed i couldn't max out . i was adviced to uninstall Suneblt firewall and was told Kaspersky crashes µtorrent. So i removed both and now i have Pc Tools firewall Plus and bought Norton Antivirus. Now when i test Slackware their trackers go offline ( i have DHT Disabled to be able to browse while µtorrent is running) and OpenOffice does not max out my downloads. I have ADSL 4 Mbps down and 512Kbps up. The only place i can max out my downloads is from Vuze's portal ( and all peers i connect to when downloading are using azureus), but when i try and download heavily seeded torrents to test it goes slow even after waiting for some time .Everything is set up according to µtorrent's speed guide, and i always get the green icon in µtorrent but howcome the only place i get full speed is from Vuze website ?Any ideas or suggestions about this matter ?Thanks in advance... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted November 21, 2008 Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 Only the comment that you went from one bad software combination to another.PC Tools software has some reported issues, and Norton hasn't been good software in probably close to 8 years.Does the problem persist with all those internet security applications uninstalled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wa7idminuae Posted November 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 Yes i tried with only windows firewall on and i couldn't max out my speeds with OpenOffice.I used to have Norton Antivirus with Sygate firewall on my old notebook pc on xp and it worked fine.Howcome i get good results when trying to download from Vuze torrents ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted November 21, 2008 Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 Just closing internet security software doesn't prevent its hooks from interfering.There are a multitude of factors that change between using uTorrent and vuse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wa7idminuae Posted November 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 Alright ,, can you suggest a good antivirus with utorrent maybe ? Kaspersky is not and you said Norton isn't good as well .As for the firewall i can't install Comodo it doesn't initialize althought i read in the Forums COMODO is a good firewall . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted November 21, 2008 Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 The windows firewall is usually sufficient for that side of things.AVG Antivirus does play nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wa7idminuae Posted November 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 First thanks,, I did try with the vista's default firewall but i didn't max out in OpenOffice test torrents and as you know windows firewall isn't much of a decent firewall As for the antivirus i'll look into it ,,I just hope i can download fast from everywhere not just from Vuze's content .Alright, thanks . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted November 21, 2008 Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 Actually, considering what happens to firewalls when malware actually gets through, it's plenty.By the time malicious software actually reaches your computer, any internet security software on your system is already basically rendered useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wa7idminuae Posted November 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 I doubt there is Malicious softwares in my laptop, it's brand new just a month ago . Well thanks . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted November 21, 2008 Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 Just because a laptop is new doesn't mean it can't get malware. Non-updated Windows can get infected within minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wa7idminuae Posted November 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 I see.I do run regular full system scan for malicious softwares. I will be looking into it . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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