[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by acropolite

If you're willing to pay you can't go past NOD32. It wins every comparitive shootout and treads very lightly on resources. The Australian support is excellent. I use AVG at home but Nod32 at work. I'm with vash re the router, I have used router firewalls at home and work with no problems for many years.

Originally Posted by mrsnipey

Another for Nod32.

Yes I've only heard good things about NOD32.
I've been waiting for my Norton's subscription to expire so I could change over to something else.

So is the Router sufficient as a firewall?
I've only got it in default mode, firewall is 'on', do I need to get in there and set up a specific configuration?

Originally Posted by OneOfOne

I have Norton 360 on my computer at home, and although it seems to do a good job... it seems to hog CPU time at times.
If I was choosing again, I might go for something else that does not get so greedy.
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I've read that 360 is a better version than previous Norton's but still quite CPU intensive.
Now that I've done a clean install on my lappy I want to do some free trial periods of the various suites on offer and see how we go.

Originally Posted by Zuts

Hi,

I have been using AVG free for years and it works for me. It is light on resources and scans your emails as they come in.

That combined with a natted router will act as a firewall and protect you from the internet worms which wont see your pc as it has a local net IP.

If you decide to open up some ports on the router, say to run a web server or to access your pc from work then most routers these days also have a firewall capability.

Paul

Cheers Paul.

Thanks guys