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[Japo]

According to leaktests ZoneAlarm Pro is actually good, although not the best. ZoneAlam free is lousy however.

http://www.matousec.com/projects/win...p#result-table

The top contenders are still Comodo, Jetico and Outpost Pro, but now there's Online Armor, which I hadn't heard about. Anyway only this Online Armor and Comodo are for free, the free versions of Jetico and specially Outpost are much poorer.

http://www.matousec.com/projects/win...ewalls-ratings

Anyway these tests are about outbound protection, which is relevant basically in the case that the computer has already been infected. Also outbound protection means that the firewall will be asking the user, and that's not for everybody. But if someone doesn't want this but inbound protection only, he'd better leave the Windows firewall.

[Juanca]

Anyone has anything to say about the COMODO ANITVIRUS?
it is also free, then one could run
comodo: firewall, antimalware and antivirus.
is this a good choice, or do you recomend mixing with different brands?

i read some people recomend to have at least two different antimalware and antivirus.
as a summary:
most recomended programs on this thread are
Avira Antivir
COMODO Bo clean
COMODO FIREWALL PRO
Adaware SE

Am i missing any other on the group of freeware?

[dosraider]

AVG freeware edition.
AVG a-vir is updated automatically, real time protection.
The a-spy must updated and runned manually, but is fully functional.
They're not ressource demanding, and fast.
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/us/frt/0

Eventually as extra: Spybot 1.5
http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10122137.html

[Japo]

Originally Posted by Juanca

Anyone has anything to say about the COMODO ANITVIRUS?
it is also free, then one could run
comodo: firewall, antimalware and antivirus.
is this a good choice, or do you recomend mixing with different brands?

i read some people recomend to have at least two different antimalware and antivirus.
as a summary:
most recomended programs on this thread are
Avira Antivir
COMODO Bo clean
COMODO FIREWALL PRO
Adaware SE

Am i missing any other on the group of freeware?

There's nothing wrong in using most of the products from the same vendor, and I've got a very good opinion about Comodo BOClean, heard some testimonials from people who were saved by it and it works in a way unlike any other product.

Comodo Antivirus is beta right now and besides its detection rates are quite bad. But I'll be definitely checking it out as soon as the final release is out. It shouldn't be long before version 3 is released, first as beta but shortly thereafter it will be finally released I think. Until then I'm definitely sticking with Avira, the free version's AV protection is as good as the premium one, and it's got some of the best detection ratings out there even compared to paid products; it's actually above any other product, including the top paid solutions such as Kaspersky and NOD32, regarding detection of 0-day threats.

[Lucullus]

My configuration for protection is:
Avast Antivirus home edition with all 7 shields customized
Spywareblaster with weekly update
Spybot S&D (updated and run weekly)
Adaware SE (updated and run weekly)
Firewall on Router, Windows Firewall
Firefox for browsing

up to date I have not had any incidents and I also believe that a way to keep yourself protected is to be smart about what you click on. I always check where the link takes me and also I always say this to ppl I know, don't just click ok without reading what you are agreeing to.

[Scatty]

My current protection(s):
Comodo Firewall
Spyware Terminator with shield active
Avira Antivir
Crawler Toolbar - to block all suspicious or even dangerous sites / on-site advertisements
Disabled cookies for any site, allowed for only few necessary and trustworthy ones
-----------------------------------------
Result: 0 Spyware / Virus cases constantly

[Jerry123]

My system is very similar to many of you:
Firefox
Avira Antivir

However, I recently discovered something new - which I would like to try out: a sandbox (www.sandboxie.com)
This software allows you to install Windows program and run them in a closed environment. It is not an emulator like dosbox: The program within the sandbox runs at native speed, it is just restricted in what it can do, it can use your hardware (so you can use sandboxie for 3D games) and so on. But all things the program writes to disk are transparently moved into a separate folder.
Now, when you close the sandbox, all changes the program within it has made to your system are deleted.

I think this sounds interesting, you could play around with whatever software you like, dangerous or not, and as soon as you stop the sandbox, all changes are deleted...

Anybody tried something like this? I would be very interested to hear about how it went.

[gregor]

hmm what about those games that are said to overwrite some directX .dll files? does sandboxie delets them after you stop it?

[Jerry123]

Good question about DirectX. I can only quote what I read in the forums over there, but it seems that you cannot put system files within a sandbox. So unfortunately, my guess is: no. The same goes for drivers and such things. They are probably too low-level. On the other hand, it seems that copy protection schemes work inside sandboxie, and things like StarForce and Securom are also very low-level, so I guess it is worth a try.

In any case, I didnt try this yet but I am definitely going to. There is a forum thread by one guy who seems to run Crysis within the sandbox (!!!) :nuts:. If that works, anything works (at least performance-wise)...

[Japo]

I've heard about Sandboxie and it must be good, you can choose what programs to run within the sandbox (browsers etc.) and what not to. Anyway I consider it overkill for me, considering I use a limited user account and even a HIPS program --which I could really do without I think...