AVG does not get very good ratings. Check reviews in PCWorld. I prefer Avast. You also must have Spybot and Adaware. You would not believe how many hacks are blocked by the runtime part of Spybot. I also install Sygate which I obtained before Symantec bought the company and ruined the product. It is a runtime firewall and pops up all the time asking if one wants to allow the program to continue or reject the hack. It also has a check box to save the answer so it doesn't ask again. The Windows firewall hardly ever detects these same hacks.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Madigan" <[email protected]> To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 11:55 PM Subject: Re: [NF] McAfee and FTP Someone should do a study on whether anything more than the windows firewall is actually necessary behind a cable router. I have never had any hacks (that I know of) into my clients systems, but I've had plenty of firewalls installed by clients screw up. Kaspersky, McAfee and Zone Alarm has screwed over many clients. When I install a system, I install AVG antivirus and I install Windows Firewall. That's is. --- On Tue, 10/20/09, Gene Wirchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Gene Wirchenko <[email protected]> > Subject: [NF] McAfee and FTP > To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 5:37 PM > At 06:18 2009-10-20, Nicholas Geti > <[email protected]> > wrote: > > [snip] > > >I have had only one customer using Zone Alarm in > several years. It is a > >suite covering a dozen or so types of antimalware but > it had failed in this > >case allowing some really nasty viruses through. I > uninstalled it to do my > >analysis and after three hours of work discovered it > had left behind an > >artifact that would block Internet access after five > minutes from boot time. > >One has to use a special uninstall program from Zone > Alarm to completely > >remove the package safely. > > That is very interesting. When I > went from dial-up to ADSL, I > had trouble getting my connection working until I removed > Zone > Alarm. I did not need a special tool though. > > [snip] > > Sincerely, > > Gene Wirchenko > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/0d37c98a5501400c8cbbf940c3911...@dual ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
