Whats the best firewall for your PC ?

I have tried Zone Alarm, keeps causing Internet Explorer to crash.

 

Anyone tried Norton or Black Ice Defender ?

 

John

I have the Norton,It seems to do the job real well;)I get pinged lots of times a day by Trojan.

John

 

Norton and Black Ice are both good, I've got both, and they work seperate from each other! If you use Black Ice though, be carefull about pressing 'Terminate Always', as i did this to one application and crashed the whole pc, it didnt get passed the start up screen after that!!!:mad: I then had to re-configure everything:mad:

Wasnt impressed, but am now more carefull what i'm doing:p

 

 

Anyway good luck

 

DAVE:D

If you are on braodband I suggest a hardware one - I use a netgear one but there are others just as good if not better. Cost less than £100, benefit - multiple PC on the network.

John

 

Just thought about somthing else that might be of use to you, just ignor me if I'm wasting your time m8:p , as well as Norton and Black Ice, I also use Ad-Aware and Pop-Up-Stopper. These are both very usefull little tools for when you are surfing the net.

 

Ad-Aware, is available FREE from a company called Lavasoft, but I've lost the web addy, but a search for Ad-Aware will find it. This tool, on activating, will detect any 'Trackers' placed on your pc by unscruperless web sites, and some so-called friendly ones as well:mad: It then removes them from your system for good. Any programmes, placed within your pc that are not wanted(!!!)and that are impossible to remove in the normall way, will have there execute parts quaranteened, thus disableing them from working!!

 

Pop-Up-Stopper, is also available FREE, from a company called panicware, and can be received from http://www.panicware.com

This tool come highly recomended, and does the job it says very well indeed!!:D In my opinion is the best one on the market, and is recomended by a lot of internet companies!!

 

Anyway, I hope this is of use to you, and good luck.

 

DAVE

Dave

 

Thanks for that, I will try them. Those popups do get very annoying.

 

Cheers

 

 

John