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What's the best free PC firewall?
Cakemeister:
--- Quote from: Turambar on March 03, 2012, 02:31:27 am ---Honestly the Win 7 firewall plus the free Microsoft Security Essentials combined with the security of your router is more than enough protection.
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Agreed.
AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: Dervacumen on March 03, 2012, 01:22:24 am ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 03, 2012, 12:01:51 am ---As usual, AVG is what I reccomend.
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I used AVG for a long time until I couldn't bear the nag screens any longer. Are those still around? I'm now using Avast which also has a nice resident shield.
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Seemed like every week I'd turn on my computer, then get a message saying I needed to reboot because AVG just updated. This happened often enough that after nearly a decade of using AVG, a couple months ago I switched to using Microsoft Security Essentials.
Howard_Casto:
I'm wondering how long ago and what version of avg you guys are using. I've never gotten a nag screen once and it's only asked me to reboot like 2 or 3 times in the 5+ year history I've had of using it. (When it upgrades to a major revision.... like avg 11 to 2012). 2012 is a vast improvement in terms of removing bloat and catching more thing btw... I liked the old versions of avg but I LOVE 2012.
I suggest you all dl it and try it again. I do know that some of the earlier revisions made you upgrade manually (download it from the site) and they sent up a nag screen saying that you need to upgrade. They weren't asking you to upgrade to the pay version though, they were telling you that your revision was out of date!
I'm not saying that MSE is bad or anything, but about a month after I installed it for a test run on a few low end pcs I got the nastiest malware virus you've ever seen. MSE didn't even pull up a warning the whole time it was infected. I don't blame a resident shiled if it doesn't catch everything that's just impossible... but when some maleware starts monkeying with your computer and it never seems to notice, the red flag comes up for me.
hypernova:
I got tired of all the processes that AVG uses to run.
McAfee is even worse. That's used at work, and it makes things soooooooooooo slow. Especially when it is updating.
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on March 02, 2012, 09:06:01 pm ---
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