Firewall & Antivir

[adri76]

I'm using GoldTach & AntiVir XP for security.
Anyone know if it's any good ata all?
It's free, so u probably get what u pay 4.

 

[Raithlin]

To be honest, I had never heard of GoldTach until now...

 

[adri76]

Have been using it 4 a while, seems ok, userfriendly & all.
but dont know if its any good security wise.

 

[Raithlin]

Go to grc.com and run their tests. You'll get a fairly good idea from that.

 

[adri76]

Capped

 

[Raithlin]

Then wait.

 

[adri76]

What about AntiVir XP get Vir DB update each day?

 

[Raithlin]

Looks ok, and gets the right awards. If it doesn't automatically update, look elsewhere. Both AVG and Avast have free solutions that you don't have to worry about.

 

[Raithlin]

Now that Ilooked properly, Anti-Vir Classic misses out on email scanning, which the 2 I mentioned both have...

 

[adri76]

Good point, a full scan would pick up an e-mail vir. though, would it not?
Or if I try to access the file, it usually pop's a msg if something
bad tries to run, scripts etc.

 

[lewstherin]

Sygate PF and Avast...both are free, resource-light, update themselves, and best of all they work - very well!
Highly recommended

 

[The_Unbeliever]

At my work I use SmoothWall with ipacsum and bandwidthd to monitor ADSL line usage, and full firewall control to allow certain PC's on the Internet.

Works like a charm, and is completely free.

You can also install the ClamAV mod to implement anti-virus scanning and the such.



At home I'm using plain-vanilla SmoothWall on an ancient Pentium1 with 32Mb RAM - it blocks all the baddies on the SAIX network for me so I don't need to worry.

Regards

Lib

 

[adri76]

Tested

Hi
Tested my FW at grc.com, 100% secure, best of all
I installed it, did not even have to tweak anything (PnP)
and it got this rating, so I think its quite ok.
Regarding the AV, personally I prefer AntiVir to
the other mentioned, only drawback is mail scanning.
I see Avast does not block scripts, not good.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

I have upgraded my SmoothWall box at home, and I have installed the ClamAV and Dansguardian mods.

Now nobody can surf to pr0n sites. Which is what I have intended.

And viruses gets blocked automatically when you try to download virus-infested files.

Naaaaiiiiiissss.... now I can relax.

For those with kiddies, or young teens, this might be a solution as Dansguardian looks at the content of the web page to decide whether to block it or not.

Unfortunately Dansguardian only runs on SmoothWall and most *nix variants, and not Windoze afaik.

Regards

Librarian

 

[Juggy]

AVG from www.grisoft.com is the best free av software I've ever seen.