[Ham-Computers] Firewall & AntiVirus Packages

[Jim Hill]

Hi Robert:
It's tough deciding what programs are best, so I read reviews where the 
reviewer ran tests (or had a professional lab do so) detecting malware and 
give a few comments on tests performed.  Looking at PC Magazine and PC 
World, the top two seem to be Norton and McAfee, with McAfee currently on 
top.  Neither is perfect.

I purchased a new Dell recently, and they seemed to shove McAfee down your 
throat.  There was no way I could avoid it, so I got the  shortest 
subscription with the idea of switching to a Zone Alarm firewall and Norton 
AntiVirus when the subscription expired.  I liked McAfee, and continued the 
subscription.  I had a problem, which McAfee's free help solved, to my 
pleasant surprise.

In your situation, I think I would use RoadRunner on one computer, use 2003 
on one, and a new NIS on the third to have access to help. If you have 
RoadRunner problems, you could recover from your backups and reconsider.

Jim



At 02:02 PM 7/22/2006, you wrote:
>Group,
>
>We currently use Norton Internet Security on the three machines on our LAN.
>But all three copies are soon to have to be renewed ($$).  And two of them 
>are
>2003, which is no longer supported on their Help system, so it's do without
>if needed or more ($$$).  Our cable internet provider (RoadRunner) offers a
>package that I guess you could say we've already paid for or are paying 
>for so it
>doesn't necessarily fall under the "you usually get what you paid for" clause
>of Murphey's Law.
>
>The package is eTrust EZArmor by Computer Associates, which is also
>commercially available.  Does anyone have any actual experience with it 
>(RoadRunner or
>otherwise), especially as compared to Norton?
>
>I'll add that I have installed the package once.  My Father-In-Law recently
>got RoadRunner.  He had no firewall at all, and his copy of NAV was so old it
>dated to before they started using the year as the version number.  So on the
>basis of anything is better than nothing, I installed EZArmor on his 
>machine.
>But I didn't get much time to play with it as they live in San Antonio and we
>came home the next day.
>
>Robert Downs - Houston
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