Hi,

I require very good anti-virus and firewall programs. They can be seperate
and not bundled. Currently I'm using McAfee Security Centre 6 but its got a
dozen small programs running in the background and seems like bloatware to
me. And every now and then I suspect it spins up my hd and does a scan.
(Yes, I unchecked the file index option).

I am quite hands on and prefer to update my programs manually- so I don't
need an auto scheduler.

I used to have ZoneAlarm Pro, and AVG. Then I switched over to AVAST.
Currently I'm using McAfee Security Centre 6.

But I suspect that McAfee is doing random scans on my harddrive. McAfee also
has a lot of stuff loaded into the RAM- included scheduled activities which
I can't seem to disable.

Any recommendations?

My system is a P4 Duo 6600, Corsair 2GB DDr2, Asus p5b deluxe motherboard,
xft geforece 7800gtx and an ADSL2 Siemens connection. And XP Pro Sp2.

Cheers!

Blackadder wrote :

Same "problem" here. I am using a bundled McAfee VirusScan 10 + McAfee
Firewall 7, and it eats up +70Mb of memory. It's always been a mystery
to me how software developers can write programs where even the simple
"Systray-RightClick-About" menu takes seconds to carry out.
Now and then it even pops up with a McAfee commercial add telling me
about their fine new products.

I have been using McAfee products for 15 years - being very happy with
the design and performance of both the retail version and the
enterprise version. This has now come to an end, and I'd very much like
to hear about small and fast virus scanners/firewalls.

/klaus

Blackadder wrote:

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
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Thank you Ken,

Yes, I am aware that many pple will offer conflicting opinions.

I just wanted to gauge what other users were using.

Norton Internet Security, far and away the best protection system on the
Market. You get what you pay for.

I also use Microsoft Defender.

DSH

Blackadder wrote:

You're welcome. Glad to help.

I don't remember if it was PC Magazine, or PC World, but one of them recommended
the free Comodo firewall.

Hi!

I thought that I was safe behind a router.
Please explain the "outward protection"?

(Have not re-newed my McAfee firewall on the strength of the router!

george

Hm......

Many thanks for that.
I didn't know......
Will do something about it!
Thanks again!

george

"Rob Buide" wrote in message
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All I know is --

with my experience both McAfee AND Symantac currently produce bloatware (and
on another sidebar so does Kodak)

I loaded the current version of Symantac and wound up spending 3 days on the
phone with tech support. I was given conflicting information from the
several techs I spoke with. It toasted my system. The programs utilized to
"clear" also were not working properly since I doubt heavily it was tested
with numerous concurrent versions having previously been loaded and not
removed properly. It's limping along but I sincerely think its time to cut
the Norton cord. There is a definate conflict when running NVIDIA in that
when attempting to open the control screen it has issues with a "transparent"
display. It does the 'ol puke & hurl and you are forced to restart in order
to have it working properly (and off your screen)

These complaints are beside the fact that both Norton and McAfee have never
really captured everything. I have always needed additional pieces to
completely rid the system of adware etc.