Tomsde opened this issue on May 05, 2008 · 28 posts
svdl posted Wed, 07 May 2008 at 5:39 AM
Never Norton! It's worse than a virus infection. Gobbles up resources, slows down your system by 20-30% (if you're lucky) and is almost impossible to uninstall cleanly.
AVG Free is already pretty good, but doesn't come with a firewall. Works on XP64 and Vista64.
What kind of internet connection do you use? If you're using a cable modem or DSL, those modems contain hardware firewalls, In that case, you don't really need a full fledged software firewall on your machine, the builtin Windows firewall will do.
On the other hand, if you're on dialup, you need a good firewall. AVG Pro comes with one.
Some people swear by ZoneAlarm, but my experiences with ZoneAlarm are quite negative. Hard to configure and unpredictable behavior.
The pen is mightier than the sword. But if you literally want to have some impact, use a typewriter