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Thread ID: 108670 2010-04-06 16:47:00 What free AV/firewall is everyone using right now? forrest44 (754) PC World Chat
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873837 2010-04-07 15:23:00 MSSE and NAT take care of everything for me, but for the hell of it, I just enabled the Vista firewall because I've set up a few servers to run constantly (HTTP, IRC, etc). Can't hurt.

I don't use my router's firewall because it's hopelessly simple, either off, block all incoming (excluding port forwards), and block all (including port forwards).
ubergeek85 (131)
873838 2010-04-07 18:44:00 I use pfSense (http://pfsense.org/) (version 1.2.3, embedded) for my home network, and iptables for everything else. Erayd (23)
873839 2010-04-07 22:30:00 Hi...

I'm setting up a Win XP computer, and am just wondering how to secure it.

From the sounds of it, MS security essentials is what everyone's using, correct?
Should I bother about a stand alone firewall or just leave it to the built-in Windows one?

The computer is fairly old (1.4GHz Pentium M, 512mb RAM) so I don't want to stress it out too much

Cheers
Forrest

Have a P3 lappie. I use AVAST and Zonealarm.

:D
Nomad (952)
873840 2010-04-08 04:35:00 ubuntu 8.10 with nothing. pkm (13527)
873841 2010-04-08 09:59:00 Well I was going to use MSE + Zone alarm on my wifes lappie but Zone alarm totally crashed Windows 7 so I ended up using the Windows firewall + MSE. tutaenui (1724)
873842 2010-04-08 10:11:00 Not free but I have Eset Smart Security installed so using that at the moment. xyz823 (13649)
873843 2010-04-08 11:08:00 Yeah likewise, MSE on the Win7 machines, plus NAT suffices on the router. No "firewall" specifically. Chilling_Silence (9)
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