Security Suites

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Uboatman

. I experience no slowdown at all with the latest version and as some have mentioned I can turn it off and on as I please.

It's not about switching it off completely, that would be pointless when you are online or some background application goes online for update or whatever. It is about selectively choosing which applications are allowed by the firewall to go online, which one must ask you for permission, and which ones are blocked, always. If it is true what I read, that they in principle use the windows firewall, then this is not only not possible, but the firewall also does not work too reliably.

My brother use ESET NOD32 and is very happy with them, didn't see that in your list.

Never heard of that. Test, somewhere?

Ones I stay away from (after personal experience)

Norton
AVG
McAfee

So do I. I avoid everything that has written "Norton" on its box.

P.S. Just visited the ESET website. N firewall. It's antivirus only. That's probably the reason why they call it "antivirus" themselves.


Does anyone know independent testing sites for security suites like the German one I linked? The magazines I do not trust and I would prefer to know in advance what it is that I install for testing on my rig - BEFORE it messes up my installation maybe and leaves me with plenty of work and wasted hours.