I'm starting an at home job and the company I'm with has a list of allowed/supported software. I need 2 from the list, I already have McAfee, can someone help me narrow down who my 2nd should be. And also are the Anti Virus & the Firewall inclusive of eachother? Or do I have to have 2 seperate things for each.
For Antivirus:
Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus (7.x)McAfee Internet Security 6.0 (8.x)
McAfee VirusScan (8.x - 10.x)
Norton AntiVirus 2004 - 2006 (10.x - 12.x)
Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition (7.x)
Norton Internet Security (7.x – 8.x)
Symantec AntiVirus (9.x - 10.x)
Symantec Client Security (9.x - 10.x)
And these for Firewall:
Windows XP SP2 firewall – Instructions for enabling Windows Firewall
Sygate Personal Firewall Pro (5.x)
McAfee Personal Firewall Plus (6.x)
McAfee Desktop Firewall 8.0
Symantec Client Securty (9.x)
Notrton Personal Firewall 2005 (Corporate Edition) (8.x)
Thanks for any and all suggestion
I have Spy Sweeper for Anti-Spyware. Is that Ok? Thank you all, I'll be talking to these people about their poor limited choices.
THanks,
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6 responses so far ↓
1 rossng11 // Apr 22, 2008
You poor, poor person. Go stick it to your boss that you should be allowed Avira, Kaspersky, Nod32 and Comodo.
None of these will protect you much.
http://www.matousec.com/projects/firewall-challenge/results.php
http://www.av-comparatives.org/
Oh yeah, that should be fine for anti-spyware (http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-spyware/ is a good scanner too)
2 Gunner // Apr 22, 2008
From that dubious list AVG and windows firewall is your best option. Tell the ginks you also need anti-spyware.
3 ddevilsdiva // Apr 22, 2008
Most of the time the two come separately because each is for a different purpose. However, according to your list Symantec Client Security can do both, so why not kill two birds with one stone. If you prefer to buy two separate programs, I prefer Grisoft VG for Anti-Virus. And for the firewall I would go with the McAfee Personal Firewall Pro.
Hope this helps!
4 jibbarjabar // Apr 22, 2008
Ouch! Poor choices.
Go with anything BUT AVG, (mediocre virus detection, poor heuristics) and Windows Firewall (no outbound protection at all)
5 Sly_Old_Mole // Apr 22, 2008
your boss has a lot to learn - he need to learn what is & what is not good Security, your list shows us how much he need to learn.
6 Willy // Apr 22, 2008
You have McAfee but is that anti-virus or firewall, or both? You should only have one of each, more than one of each will cause problems. From that very limited list, Norton is the best choice, AVG free av and Windows firewall the very worst.
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