- Dec 29, 2014
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Keeping protection in mind, what is the best combination of free a-v and firewall in the two mentioned regards? This is for someone else, whose licence for ESET (a-v and firewall) is about expire. I use 360 TS and Comodo, which I would say is as good as it gets with these two considerations. I would recommend this, but I am seeking opinions, because this person might not like 360, being that it is from China. The system is a P4 2.8 GHz/2 GB RAM running XP, so resource usage is important, but high protection value is also important in this case.
With the firewall, configuration of the connections is important too. Comodo is OK with this, but it's not exactly the easiest when it comes to blocking connections. That said, the information on the alerts is OK, so I guess it's more or less on par with the best pay firewall elements of internet security packages in this regard.
One other thing. ESET's firewall does things like notice when an IP is sniffing around ports for an opening. The ESET firewall is really pretty darn good with these types of monitorings. Comodo is not going to do this, nor any of the other free programs I have seen. The PC's owner has mentioned that he likes this feature of ESET, so I was wondering if anyone has noticed this from any of the free IS programs.
With the firewall, configuration of the connections is important too. Comodo is OK with this, but it's not exactly the easiest when it comes to blocking connections. That said, the information on the alerts is OK, so I guess it's more or less on par with the best pay firewall elements of internet security packages in this regard.
One other thing. ESET's firewall does things like notice when an IP is sniffing around ports for an opening. The ESET firewall is really pretty darn good with these types of monitorings. Comodo is not going to do this, nor any of the other free programs I have seen. The PC's owner has mentioned that he likes this feature of ESET, so I was wondering if anyone has noticed this from any of the free IS programs.