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Pros: Lesson learned: My Security Suite was Reactive, and I needed to update to a Proactive Solution.
McAfee Internet Security Suite is blotted, slow, and resource intensive. The same was found to be true of the current Norton product. My search lead to reviews at CNET and PCMag where I found reader ratings far more useful than the editor?s rating. By the way, PCMag?s reviews are much more in-depth than those at CNET.
In addition to an Anti-Virus solution, I was looking for a firewall to replace the anemic native firewall associated with Windows XP. I tested Avira AntiVir Personal ? Free Antivirus 8.1.0.326, AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.138, Avast Home Edition 4.8.1229.80723, Online Armor 2.1.0.131, and Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0.25.378. Read the reviews, download, and test for yourself.
In my opinion the best-of-the-breed was combining Avast Home Edition 4.8 with the awesome power of the Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0. These two products are like Batman and Robin, a dynamic duo. You decide which one is Batman ?
Note: Avast Home Edition 4.8 includes a light firewall which must be disabled via a custom setup, along with the Microsoft Exchange plug-in if you are only using Internet Mail (POP3/SMTP).
Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0 is a powerful firewall that is easy to setup and use by a novice with reading skills, but has the ability to satisfy the pro via fine tuning. Applications like IncrediMail, which ?call back home? every four hours to download IncrediMail?s own form of SPAM (advertisements) via a call to 206.82.140.163:80 can be stopped in their tracks.
Avast Home Editon 4.8 is an exceptional proactive Anti-Virus program offering protection before it becomes a problem, monitoring mail and Internet connections.
These are two programs that I would gladly pay for, but alas, they are totally FREE. They don?t even contain Nagware, and are Vista compatible ?
Hope this information helps someone . . .
Nathaniel A. Ray III, MCSE
Posted: 29-Jul-2008 03:53:33 PM
