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Firewall Programs
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Sat Mar 05, 2005 8:26 amby Jas0n
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Sat Mar 05, 2005 10:29 amby icecube
I've never used Sygate. But I would recomend, only use one. I like Zone Alarm, only because it was probablly the first one out and I have experiece and confidence using it.
I find a lot of people using more than one virus scan program also.
Don't run doubles on virus scan or firewalls, it will slow down your computer by about 50% or a lot more!
re: firewall
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Sat Mar 05, 2005 6:09 pmby badpolarbear
Im using the one that comes with PC-Cillin and the firewall that comes with Windows Service Pack 2.
I was using Agnitum Outpost for a while and found it good.
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Sat Mar 05, 2005 11:24 pmby Limp
I use Zone Alarm with antivirus. So far so good.
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Sat Mar 05, 2005 11:39 pmby peahead
hey i just installed sygate personall firewall i think its miles better than zone alarm
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Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:31 amby liljim
I completely agree with icecube here, i think 2 is 1 too many
Much like polarbear, i use trend micro's firewall simply because its there but if i were to recommend any it would be zone alarm.I know of alot of people using it that are very satisfied. You dont have to worry about having enough, i think you have too much myself.
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Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:20 pmby Jas0n
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Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:25 amby bjproc
Yeh, 2 firewalls is 1 to many, and what ever you do DON'T have 2 antivirus. I did as McAfee didn't pick up a trojan and I was on another forum an a guy found out for me that Bit Defender would find it so i disabled McAfee and installed B/D and got rid of my trojan, rebooted and McAfee started up as well as B/D, TROUBLE, It took me 4.5hrs to uninstall B/D and get system back to normal. NEVER again.
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Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:10 pmby The_Duck
Sygate and Avast AV. Both free, both do their job just fine...
Then for spyware/adware I use spybot S & D, Adaware SE, hijack this, CWShredder, and Spyware blaster...