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Best Antivirus/Firewall Software

Asked by: vhart5868

I do a lot of web surfing and sometimes I go to hackers websites to look around.  I have found that when I do this I find all sorts of things getting into my computer without my knowledge.   What is the best software to date to protect for antiviruses, search for trojan horses, and keep hackers out of my computer?  My company said that they use E-trust and that I could put a copy on my personal laptop since I use it for company business but is this the best?

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by: LucFPosted on 2004-01-07 at 06:55:46ID: 10062194

Hi vhart5868,

I also use E-trust here to protect our network from virusses and I have pretty good experiences with it. We use ISA here as a firewall, but that's not for protecting a stand alone computer. I suggest you use ZoneAlarm Pro for protecting your laptop. (http://www.zonelabs.com)

Greetings,

LucF

 

by: PeteLongPosted on 2004-01-07 at 06:57:42ID: 10062218

havnt used E Trust?

Software - Zone Alarm Pro
Hardware - Cisco PIX



Firewalls (Hardware or Software?)

Software Firewalls

ZoneAlarm
The basic version is still free!
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp;jsessionid=10lfaHFKttIAMkUvvZm1xhWKVLKHVeYPMJpXB1I1UxUpAC2ZioSE!1284415661!-1062696903!7551!7552!1822958594!-1062696904!7551!7552?lid=home_zainfo
Zone Labs offers a complete range of firewall products, from the free ZoneAlarm, to the comprehensive protection of ZoneAlarm Plus, to the ultimate privacy and security tools in ZoneAlarm Pro.

Black Ice Defender
http://blackice.iss.net/
BlackICE teams a personal firewall with an advanced intrusion detection system to constantly watch your Internet connections for suspicious behavior.

Symantec's Norton™ Personal Firewall
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/nis/npf/
Keeps hackers out and personal data in. It makes robust firewall protection easy by automatically hiding your PC on the Internet and blocking suspicious connections. Norton Personal Firewall also protects your privacy by preventing confidential information from being sent out without your knowledge.

McAfee Personal Firewall
http://us.mcafee.com/root/package.asp?pkgid=101&WWW_URL=www.mcafee.com/myapps/firewall/ov_firewall.asp
Personal Firewall places a barrier between the Internet and your PC, helping to block hackers from accessing your computer and allowing you to digitally 'fingerprint' trusted applications. Every time your computer is probed or attacked, you get detailed reports and clear follow-up options.



HardWare Firewalls

Cisco PIX
http://www.cisco.com/go/pix
The world-leading Cisco PIX® Security Appliance Series provides robust, enterprise-class, integrated network security services including stateful inspection firewalling, protocol and application inspection, virtual private networking (VPN), in-line intrusion protection, and rich multimedia and voice security-in cost-effective, easy-to-deploy solutions.

SonicWall
http://www.sonicwall.com/
SonicWALL Internet firewall/VPN security appliances support an array of security applications and deliver powerful firewall and VPN performance. SonicWALL appliances are built on stateful inspection firewall technology, and a dedicated security ASIC designed to ensure maximum performance for VPN enabled applications.

3Com
http://www.3com.com/prod/en_EU_EMEA/prodlist.jsp?tab=cat&cat=134482&subcat=134490
3Com perimeter firewalls and website filters cost-efficiently secure Internet access and give IT managers a critical first line of defense against network attacks and unauthorized access. For protecting the perimeter of your network, choose the 3Com® SuperStack® 3 Firewall for enterprise

NetGear
http://www.netgear.com/products/routers/firewallvpn.asp

 

by: LRI41Posted on 2004-01-07 at 14:11:09ID: 10066205

I suggest there are three areas that should look at, besides Anti-virus Program and a Firewall, you should\
have some software programs to fight the Adware, Marketint Spyware, Foistware and Browswer High Jack
Programs.

Under this category, I would suggest you download and both free versions of Ad Aware and Spybot and keep them \
current:

Ad-aware Standard Edition is THE award winning, free*, multicomponent detection and removal utility that has consistently lead the industry in safety, user satisfaction, support and reliability.

http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

"SpyBot Search & Destroy" (It is freeware
Spybot can be downloaded at
 www.Spybot.com
http://beam.to/spybotsd

In addition to these download and install either one of these next two:

Spyware Blaster

BootLIST 088  
Date: 5/23/2003 9:59:18 PM Pacific Daylight Time

Prevent Spyware From Being Installed Utility

     Mary Adams writes - I take good care of my Computer and don't
     install any garbage or junk. But when my two teenage sons visit
     for the weekend they always leave my Computer running slow and I
     get errors I never had before their visits.

     I then have to run Ad-Adware to get rid of all the Spy Software
     they seem to install even though they never admit to installing
     any Spy Software it's always there after they leave mucking up my
     Computer. Is there a way to prevent them from installing Spy
     Software in the first place?

     *** Try the utility below, free of course:

     http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html


OR

WinPatrol 5.2
Supports Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, NT and XP

·      
·      Detect if your default Home Page has been hijacked.

Message #: 291886From: J RAMSent: 8/29/2003 1:32 PM
A.      DAVY...this is the I've seen,and it does a-lot more things including stopping worms and spyware.. it's free


  http://www.winpatrol.com/



I use SpyBlaster, but I have read a lot of good things about WinPatrol

If you are using an always on BroadBand Connection, I would also suggest that you look into some sort
of Trojan Fighting Program such as Tauscan or  Pest Patrol which are not "Free."  If you are using
Dial Up, it less likely you need this type of protection.


PestPatrol 4.0 its not free:

http://www.zdnet.com/supercenter/stories/review/0,12070,563571,00.html


ZDNet Review
               
December 10, 2002

When you're on the Internet, you're vulnerable to all kinds of malicious code. Your antivirus software will weed out some of the Trojan horses, and your firewall will stop some malicious users from getting inside your PC. But to rid your system of the other bad stuff--poisoned Java and ActiveX Web scripts, for example--you'll need a program that's dedicated to doing just that. PestPatrol stops password crackers; keystroke logging; ad-serving software, cookies, Trojan horses; and possible distributed denial-of-service attacks, making it a crucial safeguard for your desktop or network server. If you want to keep your computer and data

FREE PEST SCAN


PestPatrol News July/August 2003 issue
Date:      8/11/2003 6:34:06 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From:      newsletter@pestpatrol.com
To:       

Thanks to everyone who helped with the launch of PestScan last month - and to all of you who've tried it since. If you haven't tried PestScan yet, go to www.pestscan.com and see for yourself. Tens of thousands of people have scanned their PCs for spyware since we launched PestScan just two weeks ago, so we think we can chalk that one up as a successful launch!

http://www.pestscan.com/


Excellent Online Spyware Detection

langalist] LangaList Standard Edition 2003-08-25  
Date: 8/24/2003 11:18:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time

In reply to http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2003/2003-07-31.htm#4 ,
where we mentioned a new online spyware detection service from
PestPatrol ( http://www.pestscan.com/ ) , reader Jim Eshelman wrote:

     Fred... I thought I'd mention that I've had free
     adware/spyware online scanning on my site for several months
     now at
                 http://aumha.org/a/noads.htm
 

     All I've actually done is implement locally Andrew Clover's
     wonderful parasite scanning script, which your readers can
     also access directly at his goldmine-of-a-site
     http://doxdesk.com/parasite/ . My implementation is primarily
     a convenience for people already accessing my site, and also a
     page devoted to *nothing but* the parasite scan. In its second
     month it zoomed to be one of the most visited pages on my
     site. I've been using Andrew's scanning script for quite a
     while in a user environment of around 6,000 corporate users,
     and so far it has caught every single major spyware or adware
     item on the user machines. (Spot checking with more intensive
     software finds only a few cookies missed.) This is quite
     valuable in an enterprise setting because the popular and
     reliable tools, such as Ad-Aware, are only free for
     noncommercial use. Where an IT department is willing to budget
     for business copies, one is left to choose between cheating
     and using the freeware anyway (something not high on my list
     of favorite things to do!) or use an alternative tool. The
     Clover scanning script has covered the issue splendidly so
     far.--Jim Eshelman

Thanks, Jim. Well done!

**********************************************************************


All of the following may not be any longer free, but you can check:



4-30-2001

Smart Computing.com latest issue did a review of both "Zone Alarm" and "A Tiny Personal Firewall" both free downloads for personal use and gave a thumbs up to both.

Free Zone Alarm

 http://www.uant.net/firewall/zonealarmguide.html

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp



[langalist] 2000-11-27 (2000-Nov-27)


If you don't like or have had trouble with ZoneAlarm--- the de facto
standard for free personal firewalls, at http://www.zonealarm.com ---
or if you just like to try new software, then the Tiny firewall might
be worth a spin at

http://www.tinysoftware.com/

Tiny may longer be free , not sure

*********************************************************************



[langalist] LangaList Standard Edition 2002-02-11  
Date: 2/10/2002 9:11:26 PM Pacific Standard Time

Speaking Of ZoneAlarm...

A beta of a new version is in the works (see item #3), but for current
versions, check this out:

     Hi Fred. Thought I would let you know of a cool utility if you
     don't already know some of your readers might want to try it
     is called VisualZone for ZoneAlarm, on the web site it say's
     it is a report analyzer that is easier to read than ZoneAlarm,
     can also perform backtrace and automate backtrace, and submit
     intrusion reports to DShield for analysis. VisualZone can be
     found at

      http://www.visualizesoftware.com/




 Subj: [langalist] LangaList Standard Edition 2001-06-21
Date: 6/20/2001 11:07:16 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From:    fred@langa.com (Fred Langa)

New Firewall Contender?

Writing from Switzerland, reader "Bodo" says:

hi fred, I'm a longtime reader of your langalist (and now also
langalistplus). I want to lead you to a new and imho very
powerful firewall called "Outpost". Its a piece of software
designed by "agnitum" at

      http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/

   and direct download

       http://members.nbci.com/bojammer/files/outpost.exe


It's still in Beta-Status and free. One special point: the
support of the outpost developers is (for me a big surprise!)
very good. They give direct advices and help on their own (
http://www.agnitum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=31 )
and on some other security-related bulletin-boards and try to
help everybody who asks by mail...

Outpost is very user-friendly, either if you are novice or
advanced user of security-systems.

The homepage of Outpost is now still in Russian, but I think
Outpost is such a feature-rich and well done firewall-system
that I have to announce it to you. Give it a try. It's worth.
And the best its free!

Thanks, Bodo. It is beta--- unfinished software--- and the home page is
indeed a little daunting if you can't read Russian <g>; but the software
installation and BBS/support forum is in English. The BBS also is
starting to garner praise from (so far mostly) European users. I hope to
test drive Outpost soon!


[Lockergnome Windows Digest] Top 50 Windows Productivity Tips  
Date: 4/6/2002 6:11:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: subscriptions@lockergnome.com

Outpost Firewall v1.0.1511 [2.4M] W9x/2k/XP FREE

http://www.agnitum.com/download/OutpostInstall.exe

http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/


"Agnitum Outpost is the first personal firewall that supports
plug-ins. Sample plug-ins are included to show how this
revolutionary technology can easily be employed for such tasks as
Intrusion Detection, Advertisement Blocking, Content Filtering, E-


Personal Firewalls

Message #: 290511From: J RAMSent: 8/25/2003 6:19 PM
A.      Clifford...Take your pick.. they are free,all are good at what they do..

http://www.webattack.com/freeware/security/fwfirewall.shtml



Free Personal Firewall Software

http://www.thefreecountry.com/security/firewalls.shtml


**********************************************************************

Free Antivirus: Finally Ready for Prime Time
 
We appraise four no-cost antivirus software packages to see how they stack up against each other.

Scott Spanbauer
From the January 2004 issue of PC World magazine
Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2003

http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,113462,00.asp




Free Antivirus Software

http://www.rushhohol.com/software/antivirus.htm



langalist] LangaList Plus Edition 2003-07-24  
Date: 7/23/2003 9:29:12 PM Pacific Daylight Time

11) Plus! Edition Extra:

Another Free AntiVirus Alternative
Bronson Elliot--- who helps produce the LangaList Archives for us--- sent in a couple interesting items:
Fred: I received today's edition of the AnchorDesk from David Coursey with the following article for an offer to download a full version of Panda anti-virus for free

http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2914249,00.html
 
I've never used Panda before but I couldn't pass up this offer.-- Bronson
Panda has a good reputation, but I've shied away from recommending it as a free AV tool because the qualification form was quite restrictive. But according to Coursey, the Panda people don't mind if you, um, fudge your answers a bit on the forms to qualify for the free download. As far as I can tell, it's true: Panda has a new PR team, and they seem intent on getting better visibility for Panda. Seems worth a look!



AntiVir Personal Edition for Windows 9x and NT
AntiVir Personal Edition  for Windows 9x and NT by

 www.hbedv.com

http://www.free-av.com/


***********************************************************

Subj: [Lockergnome] 02.17.2001 Weekly Digest Date: 2/17/2001 10:05:58 PM Pacific Standard Time


<> AVG Anti-Virus System v6.0 [4.8M] W9x/NT/2k FREE

{Live virus protection} Your PC could get sick quickly. You need
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Get Your AVG for free!
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You can use GAV for scanning all your floppy disks, hard disks, CD-ROMs and network-drives.

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Home edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed for home usage. Our company offers Home Edition free of charge, since in our opinion, it is possible to avoid global virus spreading by efficient prevention. However, many user are not able or do not want to pay for antivirus software.
 
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[langalist] LangaList Plus Edition 2003-06-05
Date:      6/4/2003 10:31:55 PM Pacific Daylight Time
Plus! Edition Extra: New Free Antivirus Tools, Test
Mihai Radu is both a LangaList reader, and an employee at "Bitdefender," an antivirus vendor I hadn't previously heard of. The site (
http://www.bitdefender.com

) offers free and paid versions of antivirus tools spanning a huge range of applications, plus free infection-removal tools, and a free online scanning engine. Worth a look....
http://www.bitdefender.com/index.php


Free Antivirus Software

http://www.thefreecountry.com/security/antivirus.shtml



VCatch Basic

Operating System -- Windows 95 / 98 / NT 4.0 / 2000 / ME / XP.
 Web Browser       -- Internet Explorer Version 4.0 or later.
 eMail reader         -- Microsoft Outlook 97 or later.
                                or -- Outlook Express 4 or later.
                                or -- Netscape Messenger.
                                or -- Eudora.
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The following Websites also feature VCatch.
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Download VCatch Basic Version 5

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THERE ARE SEVERAL WEB BASED ANTI-VIRUS SCANNING SITES:


Trend Micro, Incorporated - Free Tools - HouseCall

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Panda's ActiveScan (

   http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/




The AntiVirus Wizards of HAURI On Line Scan

Try our most trusted online solution, LiveCall.
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This LiveCall service provides detection only. You will not be able to remove virus with this trial service.
To use LiveCall, Internet Explorer 4.0 or above is recommended.
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 http://www.globalhauri.com/html/onlineservice/livecall.html



Mcafee has a free online scan at this web site:
 
http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/mfs/default.asp



symantec.

 
 Scan for Viruses

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[langalist] LangaList Standard Edition 2003-06-05
Date:      6/4/2003 10:31:55 PM Pacific Daylight Time
Plus! Edition Extra: New Free Antivirus Tools, Test
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http://www.bitdefender.com

) offers free and paid versions of antivirus tools spanning a huge range of applications, plus free infection-removal tools, and a free online scanning engine. Worth a look....
http://www.bitdefender.com/index.php

Free Online Virus Scan

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by: itsjaimePosted on 2004-01-07 at 19:23:54ID: 10067983

Heya, Here are a few good products and ways to protect your pc that I have found..

Firstly, you should have antivirus software, but they are all pretty much as effective as one another.

The best firewall product I have found for personal use is from Sygate Systems... www.sygate.com - their personal use product is free, and its very customisable!..

Also consider a spyware product, I recommend Spy Bot Search & Destroy. It will remove a lot of adware and other little things that get into your pc from visiting these sorts of sites. Its also free, and can be downloaded from: www.security.kolla.de

The best way to protect internet explorer however is to configure a custom security profile that you use when you are accessing sites that may contain malicious content. Basically, you have to ask it to prompt you to run scripts, ActiveX, and so forth. This gets annoying because you have to click an aweful lot on each page load to allow or deny a script to run, but its a sign of how many scripts the site is trying to run on your pc. You'll notice that you can stop pop-ups, and all sorts of other things this way by learning which settings allow certain things to happen.

Go to Tools > Internet Options > Security Tab in Internet Explorer,

Then select "Custom Level" and set everything to prompt. You will only want to do this when you are visiting suspicious sites however, as it will throw up quite a lot of prompts. you can then tune the settings from there.

 

by: knuthfPosted on 2004-02-14 at 05:22:02ID: 10360264

I have one comment about Tiny Personal Firewall: I run W2K AdvServer - and had to reinstall OS from scratch because of Security Policy mess up - most likely cause by this. Be careful. If you have other eperience please post me a reply a.s.a.p.

 

by: Vitelli_HPosted on 2004-02-22 at 04:10:55ID: 10425156

I think that one of the best firewalls is Kerio Personal Firewall. But. It´s for users whose are experienced.
Homepage of Kerio - www.kerio.com

And - AV. I am using Kaspersky and Grisofts AVG.

Also I recommend Ad-Aware.

 

by: norbad25Posted on 2004-08-05 at 11:18:16ID: 11729097

I think this topic has definitely been covered wonderfully -- but just wanted to throw a quick addition to the mix -- I personally don't like any of the software-based firewalls and if you're a novice (or sometimes even intermediate!) user, they often are way too complicated and can cause a host of problems.  A good option that may be helpful is using a router/firewall and configuring it through that device (most now have a web-based interface so you can do it all via a browser login to the device's IP address).  SonicWall makes it real simple, especially if you use a static IP address but you can still use it even if you don't -- you can setup static IP's (non-routable) on all workstations and then in the SonicWall admin set which users (using rules) will not have access to the Internet at all.  The other great advantages is that you can set a list of "approved" web sites that would be the only set of sites users could access -- and even not allow cookies, Java applets, etc. through all via the firewall -- I find it the most effective option since you're stopping it "at the source" and it's hardware-based so you don't have to install ANYTHING on the client machines.

You also get a full log file (a little technical in nature but helpful when your broadband connection goes down to see when it went down/back up, help troubleshoot, etc.) and you can log add'l user details as well, which can be quite helpful.

The lower cost routers are starting to improve their admin/control apps as well such as SMC, D-Line, etc. -- but always check w/ the vendor or you can always buy it and if it doesn't do what you want return it (if you have some extra time) -- classic move that makes those physical computer superstores still a bonus if one is nearby.  So life will be much easier with a secure operating system (2000 or XP) so you can lock it down (make sure it's up-to-date with patches, etc.) a good anti-virus program (from our experience Norton is still the best -- McAfee is clumsy and in our experience has even missed or not been able to clean viruses that Norton has found/cleaned -- it also still seems much buggier than Norton and their updates have finally gotten easier, but took them years just to make it reasonable -- not saying Norton is perfect, but size helps sometimes and more money and resources to fight the viruses usually helps us "little people") -- and then a good router with a firewall.

One thing that I do (especially since your question relates to your own surfing) is if I'm going to surf on sites that I don't trust (which I never do when logged in with admin rights or anything but limited) -- is set my security to the highest level and allow NOTHING and block all cookies as well -- if you have 2000 or XP, set yourself as limited user then surf those sites.  If you're in 98, Me or similar, I don't care what you install, you're always going to "catch" something from nasty sites that try to "work" you -- it's amazing that even w/o any add'l software installed, if you follow that direction and stick by it, you'll almost never experience problems such as pop-ups, adware, trojans, spyware, etc. -- sounds like a pain, but just becomes second nature.  If you have Win 98, Me or earlier I recommend a new machine (sorry!) -- if you add the time you'll spend dealing with issues on those operating systems, it'll pay for itself quickly.

If you're running a business (or even a power home user that has personal financial info on their computer, logins, etc. -- or just at least one kid that's old enough to surf (the devil!)) -- then spend the extra $ if you can afford it and get a more powerful firewall such as a SonicWall or similar -- you won't regret it.  You can disable everything as well at the firewall level in addition to on your workstation and have extra protection.  And if there's a site that won't let you in -- then you don't want to go there (as I see it).

Another somewhat low-tech solution is also to have an old machine (you can use monitor/keyboard switch so you share keyboard/mouse/monitor, for example) is to use an old machine or 2nd machine for "risky surfing" -- try and keep it protected, but realize that if something happens to it, not a big deal.  I also use PowerQuest's Drive Image and you can backup an image of the clean OS at a point before you starting using that machine for that type of surfing (even if Win 98) and if it gets totally screwed up, set the machine to restore itself when you go to bed and you're ready again in the morning -- good method as well for any workstation, but helps in that case as well.

Hope that helps!

 

by: knuthfPosted on 2004-08-05 at 14:06:04ID: 11730820

You write an essay.
The huge difference between a separate Firewall and a software, like ZoneAlarm, is that the separate hardware does not have all the bugs and loopholes that Microsoft have left open for them to explore, and since then long forgotten.
However, the hackers out there find them easily.
If you have an old PC, and need a Firwall, install Linux or FreeBSD, activate routing, setup filters and surf safe. All the silly packets extensions proprietary to Windows will be halted. Some of the routing software allows you to restrict access to named sites, but most important is to stop the "Commercial exploitation" of a certain company.

Some of the software mentioned above - Tiny and Kerio should be installed with extreme care. They play about with Windows Security, and use this to restrict access (??). If you try to remove them from a domain controller - you may have to reload all security, all users, configure all policies - since there is now way you can "dump it and rebuild" the security policies.

 

by: jehanzebnPosted on 2005-01-07 at 17:30:20ID: 12990061

hmmmm, i have used all the mcafee, norton, avg antiviruses but still i dono wats the best.....i was searching for the comparison chart between all the antivirus in the market...i found one site where they mentioned "BullGuard" is the best antivirus and firewall at the moment plus they claim that  they were the first one who find out about the nimda virus....im not sure to use this antivirus now....
i was also reading a pc mag  and they made a comparison between firewalls and i found out that "Kerio firewall" scored the best...i installed the software and tested through a website called pcflank. i found out that the firewall is robust and is the best so far...       have a luk at the review :    http://www.pcw.co.uk/products/software/1153296

although im not sure about the antiviruses, but i can assure you that kerio firewall is the best at the moment in the market.

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