[Yoshi123]

I'm just really curious...

What is the best antivirus?
What's the best antimalware?
What's the best antitrojan?
What's the best firewall?
What's the best antispam?
and so and so...

Currently I have:
norton antivirus home edition (i think its called home edition)
Spywareblaster
Windows firewall


I have seen a lot of people posting that norton is a piece of CRAP!!!
I believe so because i got a virus and it didn't detect it!!!!
I've been getting a couple of viruses now and then so I think norton isn't doing it's job...

I've also heard this thing called NOD32 is good. Is it?


Can anybody list all the best protection programs you can get?

And then a list of that but all of them free? (I know paid ones are much better in most cases. I'm just curious )

PLOX respond. I'm asking all those pros out there

[Yoshi123]

And also, if there is already a thread telling all the things i want to know, please tell me and close this thread.

[masterjim]

NOD32 is the best antivirus for XP. They have more 100% awards than any other company. They haven't missed a virus in 9 years. Microsoft,Dell and Canon trust and use it. And a lot of online gamers too. Get it at www.eset.com It is not free. This is the only software I pay for. You can get antispyware programs free. I use Spyware Terminator,SuperAntiSpyware,Spyware Doctor (free from Google),Windows Defender,and PrevxCSI. Best firewall is a hardware firewall,built-in to all wireless routers these days. A router is recommended even for one computer just for the security features alone. I use a Linksys WRT54GC with WPA2 encryption as my hardware firewall as well as for wireless internet for my desktop and laptop.

[Gizzy]

there's not really a best of everything, everyone will give you different answers, though the best that I personally recommend

for anti-virus
paid: kaspersky,
nod32 is good but in the latest release 3.0 there have been some problems posted around they may have sorted them out by now though and not everyone that used it experienced problems
Free: it depends on your need and experience avira antivir has the best detection but from what I hear not so great removal, most people would recommend avg, I think avast is about the same detection as avg,

anti-trojan I would recommend avg anti-spyware or a-squared anti-spyware, both free

for firewall I would say the best is comodo firewall pro it's free and an excellent firewall,

for anti-spyware/adaware I would say superantispyware and avg anti-spyware are the best, both free

I don't know that much about antispam products,

I would also say a good program to use is threatfire (the free version) it's a behavioral blocker doesn't use signatures like normal anti-virus or anti-spyware programs so that way incase your other security programs miss a threat like a virus or malware then threatfire will pick it up it constantly scans your pc for anything that looks malicious,

here's a website of some "best software" according to his opinion http://www.techsupportalert.com/best..._utilities.htm

paid isn't always better I use all freeware programs myself.

[hewee]

See The 15 best downloads of the year.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/200...nloads-of.html

You see these listed...
Avast Anti-Virus Home Edition
WinPatrol 2007
Comodo Firewall Pro

MailWasher is good but the paid version is even better.

[Yoshi123]

I am NOT going with Avast!!! I've already tried it and it missed like 24 viruses and spyware on my computer... Avast, i think, has a small database.

And thank you for those replys.

[golferbob]

i never say any one program is the best. here are the ones i use and have had no problems.
avg7.5 free
comodo 2.4 free firewall
avg free antispyware
super antispyware free
spyware blaster free

you can them here

http://www.majorgeeks.com/