bosvru6469 Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 I don't know if this where this should be posted but looking for suggestions for a new firewall. I am using µTorrent for my client and have Norton IS for my firewall. I am removing Norton because of the resources it sucks up. I am looking for recommendations for new AntiVirus and firewall. I was going to use Zone Alarm but read there are problems using it with µTorrent. My other PC has McAfee which I will probably replace also. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 If you're behind a NAT, I'd recommend just sticking with the build-in WinXP firewall (if you're on XP).As for anti-virus, I use avast!, but I don't use the scan on-access thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aangen Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 I am using Zone Alarm on two systems that I run µTorrent on. Zero issues for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allied Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 Been a Zone Alarm Pro user for almost 2 years. Never had any torrent problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PigBrother Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 If a have a little bit patience u can mess with wIPFW.Is not an eye candy 20 MB RAM eater crap, just a NT service configured via a plain text cfg file but is powerfull, work perfectly and takes only 2 MB of memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miffo Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 I would take 20MB ram "crap" to get faster and easier configuration any day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackLion Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 LOL ya. 'Minimalistic' can be taken to extremes at times. Some dont want to know how the car works, they just want to drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luk32 Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 lol, that's nothing, some just _are_ driven sorry for offtop, but i couldn't hold myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Shroud Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 McAfee is the best commercial Anti-virus I've ever seen/used. The only one I know of that's better is Panda but's it's very $$$. Anyway Norton Personal Firewall 2007 or 2008 will be really good almsot worth paying for, only because that's when they're going to switch over to the Sygate engine. Sygate was great! Low resourse use, top quality protection on many layers. My cousin's team speak server ran perfectly with only Sygate protecting it. Anyway here are some freebees:Good Firewall, though sometimes annoying: www.zonelabs.com Zone AlarmVery good free Anti-virus with regulair updates: free.grisoft.com AVG Free edition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bosvru6469 Posted January 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 Has anyone heard of any pros or cons on ETrust Internet Security Suite. I can get it free when I buy my tax software but if it not good I won't bother with it. It has a firewall and A/V in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 If I'm not mistaken, it uses ZoneAlarm's firewall engine.Edit: Yup. But it apparently uses the ZoneAlarm 5.5 engine, which wasn't so great with P2P applications, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Shroud Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 Yeah, I was using 5.5 as a second firewall for awhile. I noticed a big drop in my p2p speeds because of it, the logs showed quite the denied connection list. I went back to only using McAfee and my speeds came back. The only part that annoyed me more than the program blocking people (some of whome I knew were good people) just because they were using a p2p app was being flammed by both trolls and mods who were no better than trolls on p2p sites for even mentioning that their devine Zone Alarm might be doing something bad. So I let them suffer from their low speeds while getting a nice 300kb dl for myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 If configured correctly, ZoneAlarm works fine. I've personally never experienced problems with ZoneAlarm since 3.x because I configured it properly. Just FYI, µTorrent can get 500-600KB/s (aka my connection's maximum down speed) with ZoneAlarm, so there's definitely no suffering from low speeds here =P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 Has anyone heard of any pros or cons on ETrust Internet Security Suite. I can get it free when I buy my tax software but if it not good I won't bother with it. It has a firewall and A/V in it.Excellent software for the money (or in this case, lack thereof ). It uses ZoneAlarm as its firewall base and the Anti-Virus has 2 different scanning engines, IIRC. Overall a great package that's also light on resources...and since you can get it for free, more power to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 Sygate. Only firewall in the world that is light, secure, unbloated, does not mess with µTorrent speeds, and discontinued.Damn you Symantec. Damn you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nefarious Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 Agbitum Outpost PRO, the only firewall, i've never had a problem with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosblade Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 I'd recommand mine for the kick of it.www.looknstop.com :] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r00ted Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 mine? as in, you created/programmed look n stop? But yea, I support the Windows XP SP2 firewall + Linksys NAT router.312 articles to Stay away from ZoneAlarm.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 Heh it's 308 (was 310 before edit... quickly dropping it seems), and what's interesting is that the first article listed is ZoneAlarm's explanation... It seems reasonable to me, but I don't know, I might just be really gullible... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spikespiegel Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 linux or freebsd for a firewall, need a second pc to be a nat but then you don't need a firewall on the pcbut if you're behind a nat you don't need a firewall, best example to use for this situation is you wear a condom when you have sex with your wife weeks after you've had a vasectomy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 Kerio (free) - the older version 2.1.5 . Compact, supports internal LAN, did we say - free ? BTW - I believe kerio is closing shop ... http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page7.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miffo Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 Kerio 2.x closed years ago. NOT recommended.They sold current build 4.x to another company, lite version is still free.http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio.cfm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerson Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 Kerio 2.x closed years ago. NOT recommended.Why do you say it's not recommended, just because it's now closed does not mean it's a bad firewall, I'm running 2.x and I have no problems with it.Current Kerio 4.x is bloatware IMHO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosblade Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 No, i havent created look'n'stop, but i use it, so in a sense i can say "my firewall" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudolfo2 Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 Best buy is System Mechanics PRO 6 with Kaspersky Firewall/Antivirus/Anti-Hacker included.Will clean junk,registry,hard drives,etc etc.Everything you're PC ever needed.Have had Norton,Kerio,ZoneAlarm,Panda,all except ZA is crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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