Avast Free + free firewall or Avast internet security - which is best?

[DavidR]

Avast +  a hardware firewall is the best combination.

Sorry Eddy, I have never agreed with that, as any malware that gets past your defences has free reign to connect to the internet, outbound connections sail back through your hardware firewall unmolested because the request originated from the system. Mind you you don't say what version of avast as the AIS has a firewall

Considering 1 in 8 infections supposedly come from infected USB sticks (according to avast iNews a little while ago). They don't have to pass through your hardware firewall and considering most hardware firewalls don't have outbound protection, you need a 3rd party firewall to cover that avenue.

Whilst we all know you can keep your system clean and a hardware firewall is fine for you, the same can't be said for the average user.

[DavidR]

When you add this to the other things that you would also be missing, yes it could.

The safe zone is ideal for things like on-line banking as you are effectively working in an isolated desktop where you are immune to keyloggers, etc. So any other such sensitive browsing, etc. would benefit from being run from the safe zone.

Now that does sound attractive.
When is version 6 due?

Well there is no fixed date though the end of this month has been bandied around, but that entirely depends on how the beta trial goes and I don't know if the safe zone has yet to be incorporated into the beta trial yet.

[bstock]

Thanks for the information

[DavidR]

You're welcome.