Main > Everything Else
What's the best free PC firewall?
AtomSmasher:
This talk had me wondering a bit, so I did a little research on the quality of the antivirus programs.. It seems MSE is not that good at detecting threats in real-time, but is fantastic at detecting and removing them when doing a full scan. AVG on the other hand is significantly better at detecting real-time threats, but a bit worse at detecting and removing them when doing a full scan.
I think as long as you have regular scans scheduled, then you have decent coverage with either one.
newmanfamilyvlogs:
If you've got a spare PC laying around, it's fun to play around with a full firewall implementation like this:
http://www.pfsense.org/
It's way overkill for a home setting, but it's got some neat features.
Turambar:
As a guy who has worked in tech and still builds/works on computers, I thought I'd clue you guys into the only tool you need to take on a job when repairing a machine after a malware/virus attack: Hiren's Boot CD (http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd).
Personally, when a rig has undergone a major attack I would rather just format it, but there are tons of useful tools on this disk for when you need to actually remove the virus/malware and get a machine back operational. I am yet to come across a machine I could not fix with this tool. If you check out the list of progs included, you will see why.
saint:
RE: MSE -- ran it for a few months on my primary machine for testing, and got bit twice with viruses. System restore got me back both times (Win7) but I concluded MSE wasn't good enough yet.
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on March 03, 2012, 08:39:01 pm ---This talk had me wondering a bit, so I did a little research on the quality of the antivirus programs.. It seems MSE is not that good at detecting threats in real-time, but is fantastic at detecting and removing them when doing a full scan. AVG on the other hand is significantly better at detecting real-time threats, but a bit worse at detecting and removing them when doing a full scan.
I think as long as you have regular scans scheduled, then you have decent coverage with either one.
--- End quote ---
While I agree with that assessment completely, this is exactly why I reccomend AVG over MSE. It's far less of a hassle to catch a virus in realtime and never have to deal with it then to remove one already on your system.
Niether of them imho, is acceptable for removing a threat once you have it. For that you use malware bytes and similar "hardcore" removal tools. That being said, I've only gotten 3 viruses since I started using avg, and that was over 10 years ago. So yeah, I'd rather just deal with on virus every 3 and a third years then have to constantly remove things.
AtomSmasher:
I'm sorry you are having problems, but my guess is it's an improper install and/or corrupted upgrade or something. As I said, avg NEVER asks me to restart and I have it installed and several machines running vista, xp and win 7. You aren't using the paid version are you? Because that things a rip-off. The free version is actually better because the "additional security" offered on the paid version is pointless.
I'm not saying that AVG is the best out there, but it's free and it's certainly better than MSE.... that thing just doesn't have any real-time protection... which is what you want.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version