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Other => General Topics => Topic started by: carioca on October 18, 2007, 09:46:08 PM
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Who knows the best security combination with avast free edition? All freewares? I would suggest as a starting point:
comodo firewall personal, comodo boclean, spyware terminator, superantispyware free, system safety monitor, sandboxie, returnil, winpatrol free, a-squared free, and so on. Could you share your experience? Best Regards.
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Suggestions here http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=28395.msg231962#msg231962
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Hi, tech,
Thank you for your prompt reply. I would add the samurai hips, xp antispy, neovaguard hips, drivesentry, sensiveguard, gentlesecurity free, prosecurity free, ghostwall , arovax hips, arovax antispyware, Winsonar 2007 XP process monitor, spyware guard, spyware blaster, Busyport 2006, ExeHound 2005 , File Hunter 2006, SoftPerfect Personal Firewall , antihook 2.6 , PCTools Firewall, Filelabs Firewall, shadowsurf, etc....If I remember more, I would add them in. It's a good idea for someone is broke.Best Regards.
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xp antispy, drivesentry, ghostwall, arovax antispyware, spyware guard, antihook 2.6 , PCTools Firewall,
Tried these and give up... don't like them.
process monitor, spyware blaster
I'm using them.
, Busyport 2006, ExeHound 2005 , File Hunter 2006, SoftPerfect Personal Firewall, Filelabs Firewall, shadowsurf, etc.
Never tried them.
I use only WinPatrol as HIPS tool. I can't stand that much popups on the screen.
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Hi, tech,
The webroot Company now is offering its firewall desktop totally free at http://www.webroot.com/consumer/products/desktopfirewall/?id=H2-HO_Links-DF&WRSID=49eafde8
PS: Now I realized I put this thread at the wrong place(avastserver edition) instead of avastfreeedition.
By the way,Could you move it?
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Could you move it?
I can't. Only moderators could do that. It'll be good anyway.
About the firewall, webroot is not a freeware trutable company. Don't misunderstand me. It's a good company. Just not a good freeware company. At any time they could change the status from freeware to shareware, or limit the functionability and features of the free version. Just my opinion.
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I think Webroot firewall is now free because they have problems for sell it. If a lot of people download and use this FW, then Webroot will change the status of his FW. MARKETING!!
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then Webroot will change the status of his FW.
This is a ridiculous policy... I won't lose time with it...
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The webroot Company now is offering its firewall desktop totally free at http://www.webroot.com/consumer/products/desktopfirewall/?id=H2-HO_Links-DF&WRSID=49eafde8
PS: Now I realized I put this thread at the wrong place(avastserver edition) instead of avastfreeedition.
If anywhere, it should be on the General forum if you consider it is not a problem directly relating to avast 4 Home/Pro
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then Webroot will change the status of his FW.
This is a ridiculous policy... I won't lose time with it...
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Ok Doc. Marketing and business, this kind of companies whatever minds! I'd like to add to the list another good freeware. At the www.netveda.com. Who tried it on? Best Regards.
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I'd like to add to the list another good freeware. At the www.netveda.com. Who tried it on? Best Regards.
Doesn't work on Vista.
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I'd like to add to the list another good freeware. At the www.netveda.com. Who tried it on? Best Regards.
Doesn't work on Vista.
Hi, bob3160,
Netveda has answered your question with that Reply as follows:
http://forums.netveda.com//index.php?showtopic=428
quotation:
“Safety.Net 4.0, the next major release will support Vista. We have not announced the release date yet. We will post in this forum when we open Safety.Net 4.0 for beta testing.“
Best Regards.
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Hi carioca,
Hopefully they'll accomplish that task faster than ZoneAlarm. ;D
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I'm afraid I'm not following... I have ZA free installed on my laptop (Vista).
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I have ZA free installed on my laptop (Vista).
I've missed this... I thought ZA was not compatible with Vista (yet).
Is it working well, Sasha?
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I have it installed for the last two or three weeks. It works perfectly fine, not a single problem with it except everybody is screaming out there how bad ZA free protection is. I am behind a router here at work, and it passed all those firewall tests, so I really don't need anything more than this. Nothing works nice an clean as ZA does here on my laptop. I don't even know it's installed, don't see it, don't hear it... it does what it's supposed to do.
EDIT:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/06/zonealarm_for_windows_vista_re.html (http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/06/zonealarm_for_windows_vista_re.html)
Download LINK:
http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/1001_zl/zlsSetup_71_078_000_en.exe (http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/1001_zl/zlsSetup_71_078_000_en.exe)
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Not a single problem with it except everybody is screaming out there how bad ZA free protection is.
Nothing works nice an clean as ZA does here on my laptop.
Good news... I've abandoned Zone Labs products a long time ago... but right now I don't have a firewall for Vista... Maybe I'll test it. Thanks Sasha.
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Sasha,
It took ZA many many month to finally come out with a Vista ready version.
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Sasha,
It took ZA many many month to finally come out with a Vista ready version.
Better late than never... specially when it works 8)
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I think the issue is that the free version is crippled in its 'outbound' protection in the hope you will buy the pro version and the inclusion of trialware that bloats the installation.
In the Program Control, configuration area, the slider will only goes as far as Medium protection, if you want more you have to buy the Pro version.
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I think the issue is that the free version is crippled in its 'outbound' protection in the hope you will buy the pro version and the inclusion of trialware that bloats the installation.
But, as usual, they would be disabled when the trial period expire, I suppose. It's the same marketing schema of Kerio.
In the Program Control, configuration area, the slider will only goes as far as Medium protection, if you want more you have to buy the Pro version.
Ok, common users will be 'asked' to buy the Pro. But, do we need the pro features?
Right now, no outbound protection on my Vista...
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I think the issue is that the free version is crippled in its 'outbound' protection in the hope you will buy the pro version and the inclusion of trialware that bloats the installation.
But, as usual, they would be disabled when the trial period expire, I suppose. It's the same marketing schema of Kerio.
But those must first be downloaded in the form of a larger download and installed on the more bloated installation and even when disabled the content will still be on your HDD.
In the Program Control, configuration area, the slider will only goes as far as Medium protection, if you want more you have to buy the Pro version.
Ok, common users will be 'asked' to buy the Pro. But, do we need the pro features?
Right now, no outbound protection on my Vista...
You/they may feel they don't need the full functionality of the pro version but the ZA free doesn't catch as many of the outbound attacks, you need only take a look at the matousec.com tests to confirm that just look at the ZA free V ZA pro results.
Right now you have no outbound protection, but that isn't through choice and as soon as you find a compatible third party firewall I'm sure that will change.
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Right now you have no outbound protection, but that isn't through choice and as soon as you find a compatible third party firewall I'm sure that will change.
It is through choice because there are Vista Firewalls available which Tech has decided not to use.
Even the built in Firewall has outbound protection built in. It's just hard to use which is why Vista Firewall Control (http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/) was invented.
However, all of this has nothing to do with the actual topic of the thread... :) :)