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Living Room / Re: The Great Firewall Hunt ... frustrating ...
« on: December 02, 2005, 03:38 PM »
I've been using ZoneAlarm Free for several years, and Avast Free for one. I have few complaints with either program, all things considered. Avast is very configurable and has daily updates. From what I can tell, I've been virus-free. Occasionally I run the Trend Micro online check to get a second opinion.
My wife and I both use XP SP2, and I set the security up identically on both systems. A recent ZoneAlarm update to V6.xx cause occasional blue screens on both systems. The most-recent update, from a couple weeks ago, seems to have corrected the problem.
I use CounterSpy (a REAL memory hog) and TrojanHunter as well. The combination of these four security programs appears to be conflict-free on our two systems. CPU and RAM usage don't appear to be a significant problem. My wife has an "aging" Athlon 850 with 768 MB RAM, and it's surprisingly zippy running multiple applications in XP.
You want a memory gobbler - sometimes an hour of heavy surfing with Firefox will get me into three-digit megabyte readings in Task Manager.
My wife and I both use XP SP2, and I set the security up identically on both systems. A recent ZoneAlarm update to V6.xx cause occasional blue screens on both systems. The most-recent update, from a couple weeks ago, seems to have corrected the problem.
I use CounterSpy (a REAL memory hog) and TrojanHunter as well. The combination of these four security programs appears to be conflict-free on our two systems. CPU and RAM usage don't appear to be a significant problem. My wife has an "aging" Athlon 850 with 768 MB RAM, and it's surprisingly zippy running multiple applications in XP.
You want a memory gobbler - sometimes an hour of heavy surfing with Firefox will get me into three-digit megabyte readings in Task Manager.