Hello P.Johnson, Friday, November 5, 2004, 12:03:59 AM, you wrote:
> I'm getting a new computer and want to get the best firewall and virus > protection I can, and have been looking at Trend Micro PC-cillin > Internet Security. Do you have a reason to look at this specific product? As for Antivirus Software - the Kaspersky Labs Antivirus has repeatedly won quite some tests, its the AV solution I'd go for if I already wouldn't use another product (which uses the Kasperky AV engine *g*). AFAIK there's a Kaspersky AV plugin available for TheBat - this has a couple of advantages: you don't need to use a local proxy or POP scanner, you can exclude TB's mail dir from the filesystem realtime protection (and thus won't have the AV program possibly lock out TB from its own database, and it will increase the speed of TB as well). that sort of thing. Firewall - well, the best firewall is air. The air thats between the plug and the socket when you pull the cable of your internet connection. :) OK, joking aside... the "personal firewall" that runs on the very same machine it should protect is subject to lengthy discussions for a while. However, I do see a benefit from using this kind of software, so here's my two cents: There's two ways to look at a firewall - #1 control whats going *IN* to your computer, and #2 control what wants to go *OUT* from your computer (which programs want to "phone home", that sort of thing). #1 is the real security issue, and the built-in firewall of Win XP (SP2) is good enough for that, period. #2 is a privacy issue - and you'll need a separate product for that. There's a couple of freeware "personal firewall" solutions, and I would use one of them (Tiny Personal Firewall, Sygate, Outpost...). HTH -- Best regards, Alexander mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
