The best firewall for windows i have seen is Tiny. It lets you make very specific rules.
Tho I dont have windows, so I just use freebsd's own firewall and no AV. I dont really download much from untrusted sites, and as long as my firewall stays in tip top shape, noone can upload virus' to me.

I am using WatchGuard (Hardware Firewll)
WinRoute(softwareFirewall) (cuze i can create THe rules manually)
And i like NAV and Dr.Web and KAV (AntiVirusSoftware)



Black_Hat

Which software firewall/antivirus do you use, or which would you rank in the top few?

I'm interested in seeing how many of you use the mainstream firewalls.

Well I've got Firewalls
IPcop
Deerfield Visnetic
AVG (Anti Virus)

I just use ZoneAlarm, free, and works good for me (too bad of that vulnerability tho...) Tho, i i would recommend it. For A/V (anti virus) i use norton antivirus, works great, updates are fast etc etc...

Hopefully it helped a bit,

woutiir

Firewall: Zone Alarm Pro

I think I"ll try Tiny Firewall 5.0 soon...whenever they get a comprehensive guide on how to configure that thing out.

Antivirus: http://housecall.trendmicro.com

Good old IPtables, and "firestarter" firewall...great to see all those DCOM probes while I sit back and laugh in my Linux castle! AV? Pfffttttttttttttt!!

For Windows, Norton AV and sygate personal firewall (<----found it to be brilliant).

blackice and Norton AV

Peace
NetCOmm

Outpost firwall....create your own plugins and rules , etc

f-prot ...antivirus

Kerio Personal Firewall is very good as well, and free. Very configurable, and also allows you to make specific rules about filtering. Has a log, and has all the basic features of a professional firewall

I use Agnitum outpost firewall. In antivirus solutions f-secure is the fastest and rules my desktop.

Working Security for an ISP Ive found Firewalls too be as much of a nucense and they can be a god sent .. The best thing you could ever really do is to secure your system from square 1 and being smart about things , Doing Your Updates Turnign off services you dont need or can be easily exploited. When Installing new software think about the out come of things and thake the appropriate course of action to secure it. Port Explorer is one of the best programs Ive seen unlike a firewall it doesnt limit your activity nor close anything, but it fully allows you too see everything that is connected to the internet ports process UID etc.. another thing Ive found useful is changing the root of c$ and d$ ect to an empty directory and kill admin$, so if anyone does get your well thought of blank password the files get routed to that directory could still be executed, but if left behind you have fair enough warning there..(That is if you need shares or even creating your own personal shares) Personally from all the winsock2 errors left behind from every Windows based Firewall mentioned here Id suggest using common sence and think about whats happening, Firewalls can / will limit what you do and can be a huge pain in the ass in the end. Check out Port Explorer just google it youll get a nice trial.

For Windows, I prefer to use SYGATE personal firewall. Simple and nice one.. Using Norton Anitivirus with it... I completely stand with Dillinja... In my experiance, both are excellent.... ZONE alaram too is good one..

zone alarm in my experience has proven to be a crappy firewall... mainly because the ability to make your own rules doesn't quite exist in it. While Sygate and Deerfield and a few others have that ability, Zone Alarm does not...

I use norton personal firewall and in combination with panda antivirus.
I have the panda in a trial version but I re-install it every 30 days and get a free update.

It's been a nice panda.

as far as antivirus is concern... there is no concern

regarding firwall top one which is like most but a P-II machine recommended. It is MNF from Mandrake... which has great look as well as no need for plugin or addons...

if u don't have high processing machine... then use IPCop... and remember Addons are necessary...

I use LOOK'N'STOP Firewall (windows version), very good, low cost and low ressource needed.
MacAffe VirusScan as an antivirus, as i found it seems to be more difficult to make trojans or virii 'undetectable' for him.

Yeah, I aggree with you wicked, but i have not the same conclusion.
- Control & Monitor both IN Traffic and OUT Traffic
- ability to Set up Rulesfor Applications/Networks
- surf the Web Stealthly
- be warned when-ever a potential intruder try's to get into my system
- ability to block all internet Traffic and provide me with a detailed log of all attempts for future Hunting.
For all you said, Look'N'Stop seems to be better than Za.
I admit that maybe it seems not too easy to configure, but it's just an impression : in fact it's so simple you'lle be surprised.

Ok, Za is correct, but take look at this page:
http://www.pcflank.com/art41c.htm

Look'n'stop very light , effective and allows good fine-tuning.
Give it a try ;-)
(i'm NO member of the looknstop team -lol- , just like very much this product ;-) )

AV = NOD32 That is the best AV I have used. Norton takes up far too much memory and CPU cycles for a 2003-grade software package and it does not always detect virii, certainly not as well as Nod32!

i don't run antivirus programs constantly on my machine

i have been online for almost 8 years and never contracted a virus.

i will occasionally run the housecall remote scan

but as far as a proggie.. nope... waste of resource and cpu cycles imho

firewall

i use a router instead of a firewall.. i block most ports and forward a very narrow range for all my applications to use

anyone who uses Norton AV should be aware that any kiddie can make an undetectable trojan for it with relative ease. Mcaffe is a much stronger AV and in my experience tends to get updated more quickly to new hostile code.

RAV is the best, but...M$ now own it for inclusion in Longhorn.

I guess what im saying is that using Norton is a quick way to get owned.

Personally, I dont rely on Firewalls, and prefer using a router with just the bare min ports forwarded. Its never been penetrated so far...

And to protect from undetectable trojans, always run tcpview in the background, and have a quick peek now and then to see if any unusual progs are connecting to unknown ip's.

I uses the firewall that comes with XP, and the Firewall That Comes with the Antivirus package. But rather than depending on fw, and av, which isn't really safe, i usually turn off my computer which saves energy for it as well

hello.i am using Zone Alarm as a firewall and norton 2003(with live update on!)as an antivirus.

i'm using the built in NAT firewall of my smc barricade

sometimes scannin' my sys with norton antivir.

greetz

i am using AntiVirusKit professional 11 (for me, the best you can find. It uses kaspersky and KAV scanner for virus detection)
firewall i have BlackIce

Hmmmm, well after i had some problems with Tiny and Windows XP i just turned to good old Zonealarm Pro and for Antivirus I use NOD32...very little overhead, works great!!! (Tiny used to leave ports 1025-1026-1027 in a not stealthed state!)

Blackice and Symantec

norton

Norton AntiVirus is the best (I think )

Use everything but not spftware that has a "norton" in it's name. I used it for jears and many peple told me, it's crap. the sygate firewall is good, but the newest version sucks.

Now I use McAfee AntiVirus v7.00. It has Firewall includet and is quick and simpel. It can delete every infected file (even when it's running, mcafee stops it) and it even checks your memory for virij. this are only one of the options that NAV has not included. And McAfee is smaller and faster, and does not slow don't your whole machine.....

NAV:
McAfee:

firewall: tiny
antivirus: kaspersky AV, the best money can buy :-)

kaspersky AV is good but for some reason I always find it bogs down my system.

I use Trend OfficeScan and Blackice on one system, Panda Platnium AV & firewall on another (YUK on that), and Outpost and Trend on another.

I dislike Panda with a passion and hate outpost even more. BOth are cumbersome. Outpost crashes my system.

I like Norton the best, but too cheap to purchase it. It seems to catch the most stuff that I load onto other systems

Still working on my Linux boxes. Most don't connect to the net very often, so nothing on them yet.

Have someone a Test report over FW/AV ?

i use the Norton ANtivirus and i must say it realy sucks the only thing working is deleting al scan progs i have on my pc!
It`s crap!

For AV- Nod32

TDS-3 vs TauScan. My preference is TDS-3.

For FW- I prefer Outpost



here's a site some may be interested in.

AV Testing

Firewall : Sygate Personal Firewall Pro (Also used ZoneAlarm , Norton , Atguard ....)

and AV currently none beacause i'm stil searching for one ...

I Use Mc Afee Virus Scan & Sygate Firewall

Win2k:
ZoneAlarm for a firewall and eTrust for AV

Linux:
custom iptables firewall

AV: Nav 2004
FW: Cisco Pix 501

every body use this - outpost firewall

i used tiny personal2 for a long time. now im using kerio4. it is very good and free for private use
http://www.kerio.com/kerio.html

i use sygate pro + avg free edition

firewall: Kerio
antivirus: trend micro

Firewall : Zonealarm 4.5 pro
AV :McAfee 7.0 Pro

First i always used Norton as Antiv virus but allot of trojans i used weren't detected by norton and the were detected McAfee so that's why i switched. And also exculsion is harder with Norton

Personally
AV: Norton 2004
FW: Sygate 5.5 Pro - very customized rule sets let you block as you see fit
Also running Snort IDS.

Company
AV: Symantec Corporate
FW: Checkpoin FW-1 / Pix

Ciau..

digitalk2003

i use BlackIce and Norton Antivirus. I had ZoneAlarm but uninstalled it after few days never liked it.

Work:

FW: Checkpoint FW1
AV: Symantec Corporate on desktops and servers and McAfee Webshield for SMTP traffic (stop 'em before they get in)

Home:

FW: DLink Cable/DSL router (got tired of playing with FreeBSD)
AV: Symantec Corporate (borrowed from work ;-)

At home I've got.

Cisco Router. Port Blocking and logging to my linux box
AVG antivirus

Seems to work pretty well