On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:14:57 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:


"JimH" wrote in message
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"John H." wrote in message
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On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:59:40 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III" "Reggie
is
Here wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:45:50 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:01:34 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:25:22 -0400, "Florida born"

wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in
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I've been looking around for a new anti-virus/spyware/firewall
provider as I'm highly dissatisfied with the Norton products - not
so
much on the technical end, but their incessant begging for renewal
starting two months before the license is up.

I stumbled into AVG on the recommendation of a friend. She says it
works great and prefers it to Norton by a factor of 10.

Anybody else use it? I'm leaning towards AVG, but just want
another
opinion.
I have used the free version for several years, and am completely
satisfied with it. As to a firewall, I have used Zone Alarm free
version
also for several years. Both products serve my three networked home
computers well. Beats the devil out of the footprints of MacAfee,
Norton, et al, which I have also tried

And the price is right.

I installed Zone Alarm when I went to cable internet. I was having a
lot of
interruptions, and when I called Cox, they blamed it on Zone Alarm.
So I
went with McAfee. Haven't had any of those problems since.
I'm using ZA with Comcast, and have no problems. I have read of it
causing problems with some setups, though. Same for McAfee.
What happened to you may have been coincidence, or how it was set
up and used, or just "doesn't work for my system.".
But whatever works is always best.

--Vic

You're probably right. No one has mentioned the Windows firewall, that
I
can see. Is it worth using?

It protects people from scanning for open IP and getting in, but does
not protect from you picking up an unknown a trojan or spyware and them
sending info out.

Does the McAfee firewall prevent that? I'm not talking about the virus
scan, just the firewall.
--
John

Firewall and antivirus or anti-spyware programs are totally different
beasts.

True, but some suites include them all.


Yes. Right now I'm just talking firewalls, and Vic answered the question.
--
John