Firewall

[thegurio]

What are you guys using for firewall/antivirus/spyware etc etc. i have a particularly nasty virus (kinda) in that Avaast cant get rid of the offending file and its not letting me put the windows firewall on no matter what i try...

i am downloading zone alarms firewall in the hope that that might do something but i just wanted to know what the general consensus was in this room?

[benneh]

zone alarm, won't rid your computer of virus/adware/spyware, but these two may...

windows defender
spybot search & destroy

[thegurio]

Well shall we add another event to the saga...

When i go to click on the windows firewall it says that due to a unidentified problem, windows cannot display Windows Firewall Settings. So to combat this problem i have put on Zone Alarm but that didnt work. Now when i go to download spybot it just doesnt - it kinda redirects but then just does nothing. Any ideas?

I am using Firefox but i have tried IE to no avail...

[Mike]

Originally Posted by benneh

zone alarm, won't rid your computer of virus/adware/spyware,

Actually, only yesterday I found that Zone Alarm now does exactly that, trying the free version as we speak

http://www.zonelabs.com.au/zassdetail.htm

[Topfs]

On Windows I use Nod32 for virus and Kerio Personal Firewall and lavasoft for spyware.

Works 99% of all the times. low resource to.
As a nice quirk Nod32 gives me a message if my girlfriends Nod32 find any viruses on her computer so I can aid her before she looses her mind and blame me for something I didn't do

[benneh]

Originally Posted by Mike

Actually, only yesterday I found that Zone Alarm now does exactly that, trying the free version as we speak

http://www.zonelabs.com.au/zassdetail.htm

well there you go... it's been a while since i have checked it out

[GlenR]

On my Windows PCs I use Adaware and Spyware Guard for spyware and AVG free for the viruses. No infections so far.....