14 replies to this topic

[phoenix_abhi]

1. I am currently using Zonealarm fire wall minus Pro. Initialy I felt god about that but sems it have some limitations and drawbacks. How i will remove a program allowed earlier permanatly to access internet and trusted zone ? No updates are found for last 2 months. Please advise me the best free firewall from this list.
It will be nice someone from this forum give some teachings on this issue for newcomers like me.

firewall
Ashampoo v 1.2, PC Tools Fiewall Plus 3.0.0.36, comodo pro 3 , Jetico filseclab , Online armour and zonealarm
Can i use windows firewall and 3rd party firewall simultaneously ?

2. This is regarding Adware/spyware. I am using Spyware blaster. Can i shift to ad aware 2007 ? which is the best one ? Any better other free or paid spyware/adware in vicinity. Please suggest ?

[rahuljin]

dont use windows firewall and 3rd party firewall simultaneously as it can create problems !!! i advice u to use kaspersky internet security 7 or Outpost or eset.
i found kaspersky internet security 7 best but outpost is also very good !!!

[Johnnyboy]

Open ZoneAlarm. Go to Program Control. Right click on the items to remove it or left click to allow or block the internet access.

ZoneAlarm is still the best firewall for Xp. I use Comodo for Vista.

Btw, you posted in the wrong forum.

[winmatrix2007]

for adware protection use the old version of Ad-Aware if you have a slow pc but the new version runs perfectly fine

[HingVista]

Can i use windows firewall and 3rd party firewall simultaneously?

It's not recommended!

[phoenix_abhi]

Open ZoneAlarm. Go to Program Control. Right click on the items to remove it or left click to allow or block the internet access.

ZoneAlarm is still the best firewall for Xp. I use Comodo for Vista.

Btw, you posted in the wrong forum.

OOps. sorry bro. will be careful

It's not recommended!

Thanks to all. I am disabled windows firewall

[M.Sudoku]

Comodo Personal Firewall is better than ZoneAlarm Free. For anti-spyware I use Spybot S&D.
KasperSky suite is the best, but you have to pay for it.

[gon1387]

isn't that zone alarm eats a lot of system resource? how about comodo...does it to? and and and...do firewall really acts like that? hmmm...just raising some questions...feel free to answer.thanks in advance.

[timbertide]

Firewall Memory Consumption

ZoneAlarm
zclient.exe 9MB
vsmon 36MB

Comodo (Thanks to Automatum)
cpf.exe 16MB
cmdagent.exe 8MB

Edited by timbertide, 26 January 2008 - 10:34 AM.

[phoenix_abhi]

Firewall Memory Consumption

ZoneAlarm
zclient.exe 9MB
vsmon 36MB

Comodo (Thanks to Automatum)
cpf.exe 16MB
cmdagent.exe 8MB

Really. Should i Get back to windows firewall ? I have 1 GB DDR 2 ram only n using so many applications

is that OK ?

[El Payaso]

the best firewall:Comodo
the best virus-scanner:Avast!
the best anti-spy:a-squared free
note: these are all free products, if you want to buy something really good, i recommend kaspersky

[dexhummer1]

Symantec Endpoint Protection is what Im running, runs fine to me.

[Danilux]

Best Free Firewall: COMODO
Best Paid Firewall: Outpost, Online Armor

Best Antivirus: Nod32

That's it for me IMO:

[electricshock81]

Comodo is the best Firewall.
Kaspersky, Avira and NOD32 are the three best anti-virus apps.
Super antispyware is the best ant-spyware.

[tekovro]

Good and Best?

I've tried several different firewalls including Zonealarm and comodo.. they are good firewalls but i think its pointless to even bother downloading one when you have a perfectly fine firewall integrated in windows.

zonealarm and comodo do beat windows firewall on its own, however the best setup i feel comfortable with is having Windows Firewall together with a router firewall.

Someone mentioned having 2 firewalls is bad because they will interfere with one another, But as you may already know, a router firewall wont interfere with with anything because your not installing it on your computer.
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so far ive been running my xp nicely without any problems or almost 2 years.

oh and also, windows firewall barely touches your memory so you got all that power back

Edited by tekovro, 21 February 2008 - 08:49 AM.