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Any recommendations for free downloadable firewalls for me to utilize?

I had Norton running then subscription ran at so now for anti virus I give it a scan every now and again, I recently downloaded spybot (Thanks D4rk) as a form of protection from malicious things out there and I would like a fire wall...so yeah.

Well I already told you about ZoneAlarm, so yeah...

Spybot is more anti-malware, so I'd advise you grab a copy of AVG too so you've got decent antivirus.

And as for firewalls, ZoneAlarm or Outpost (I'd go with the latter) are the best options.

http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpostfree/index.php




Finally, I'd recommend you 'acquire' Eset Smart Security (Contains Nod32 Anti-virus) as it is by far the best 'out-of-the-box' solution I've ever used. It uses next to no memory and it's widely regarded as the best consumer anti-virus solution. plus it comes with a firewall so you get the same kind of protection there too.

If you didn't mind not having a central console. Nod32 and Outpost Firewall is the best combination available.

Now y'see I don't trust myself acquiring it, I'll end up getting virus >_<

But I may purchase it at some time.

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Am I pretty safe for now with spybot, Norton and zonealarm?

I have always used Norton, so I will highly recommend it. Right now, you can buy Norton Internet Security for around £30.00 on Play.com.
I just ordered mine recently, so I just wanted to let you know.

I currently already have the 2007 version of norton installed, however due to my subscription ending I am missing some features such as virus database updates. For a smaller fee I could just re0subscribe rather than re-buy the program.

Thanks for your suggestion though, appreciated.

Norton is bad.

It works (just about) but there are much better, much cheaper offerings available.


A virus scan in Norton took 2 days on my PC, in Nod32 it was done in 5 hours.

+ Norton has failed to detect viruses in the wild before. Nod32 has not.


On Access is background scanning.
On Demand is when there is a scan actually running (either scheduled or manually started)

(Eset is the company that owns Nod32)


Also Norton is bloated and a notorious memory hog. Nod32 is currently only using 18MB of my memory and my computer's been on for about 3 days.

AVG looks pretty bad...754 missed viruses CANNOT be good news.

I will look into purchasing NOD in the foreseeable future hopefully. But for just basic internet surfing and such am I safe with norton, spybot and zonealarm for now? I do not download many files and when I do it is a trusted source and I do not do anything internet money management.

yeah

Prexv 2.0 is free as long as it doesn't find a problem (30 day trial after that, i think).

By far the best I've used.

I've been using Nod32 for a long time now. I used to use Kaspersky but after changing to Nod32 I loved it so much that I didn't go back. Nod32 is the best, imo.

I use avast, it's totally free and you only have to "subscribe" every 14 months, it's free as long as it doesn't go corporate

Thats what I use. There's also Avira Antivir PE, but I think that lags behind in features, Avast is the most feature rich free program out there.