Hello faraz.
Thats one of those questions you could ask a dozen people and get a dozen answers. LOL I have tried several of them, and am now using Zone Alarm. Of all the ones i tried , i like it best. It is very effective, fairly simple to use, and a combination of it, Spybot Search and Destroy, and AVG antivirus, and virtually nothing gets through that i dont want. Ive tried Avast too, and i liked it also. Im sure youll get other opinions, but you can try it and if you dont like it, try another one. A word of caution, if you want to try a different security software of any kind, always download the one you want and have it ready to install before you uninstall your current one. It only takes a few seconds of being online without it to get zapped.

Agreed - ZoneAlarm is among the better.

Same ZA is a very good firewall for free

In regard to free software etc. I personally think that you should purchase a program to do it all for you. This is basically your front door, would you trust having a key for you front door which you had no idea where it came from who had it before you and who has a copy, if you see what i mean.

having read a lot of articles on this over the past few months and having used ZA, avg and nortons over many years I find that Kapersky beats those hands down without a doubt and most reviewers think the same. I dont know how i put up with norton over the years. However there is one better than Kapersky and that is NOD32 but they say its difficult to use. I havent tried it yet.

Kapersky for me does everything and if you have no cash to buy then Like myself you can download the beta version.

Giles


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NOD32 i would agree as better, although i can see how less-advanced users can find it difficult or confusing to use.

But it is very low on resources

If you have a router with a hardware firewall, isnt the windows firewall good enough?