What Anti-Virus and Firewall are you using with Windows 7

[dpnaugle]

Hi all,

Just wondering what you are using for antivirus and firewall with windows 7.

Currently I am using Avast Home ant-virus, and Win 7 FW. I may give Comodo a try.

What do you think?

Don

 

[The_Prophecy]

I'm using VIPRE Antivirus, and the Comodo firewall with my copy of 7 Ultimate x64. Does a good job IMHO.

 

[dallasjoh]

I'm using Norton 2010 with firewall and 7 Ultimate x64.

 

[dokk2]

AVIRA anti virus,and COMODO firewall,although the COMODO is a PITA when first installed [ sorta carries on like vista's UAC] ,,it settles down after a few days,whereas with some firewalls you never know that they are there ,,let alone working..

 

[secolliyn]

Norton End point here Windows 7 Ultimate 32Bit it did with any computer it was installed what Homegroup does for windows 7 computers as far as networking

 

[Deleted member 217926]

I have Avira on Windows 7 and Kaspersky on XP.

 

[shubham1401]

I have Avast Free and Comodo Firewall.....
Running this combo for quite a while.
Works good.

 

[cjl]

Norton 360 3.0.

 

[Zoron]

Trend Micro Internet Security 2009.

 

[rodney_ws]

Awww crud! I'm the only one using Microsoft Security Essentials with Windows 7.

 

[The_Prophecy]

I would have used MSE with 7 if I wasn't already using (and had paid for) VIPRE.

 

[AsAnAtheist]

Avira Antivir, and for firewall just Windows firewall since I rarely mess with networking or rarely get viruses period. I must say however Antivir has a really annoying false reporting. Everything I go to aion's official website, it logs it as a malware HTML cache. I had to select several folders as an exception to remove that, even then it sometimes brings up the alert anyways.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Checkpoint (ZoneAlarm) Internet Security Suite (Site License)

 

[The_Prophecy]

Wow.... I just attempted another install of ZoneAlarm (I haven't used it since I moved to Vista 64 back in February '07) and the installer had to be opened in compatibility mode just to run itself. It's frustrating how developers can't do a simple f***ing version check and allow 6.1.7600 as well as 6.0.6001, 5.1... etc. I had a good laugh as soon as the ZA installer told me I had to upgrade to Vista SP1 before I could install it under Windows 7. As I said already, running the installer's executable in compatibility mode for Vista SP1 fixed this, but it's still so sad, it's laughable.

Edit: Now this is even more laughable. The ZoneAlarm install was blocked due to compatibility issues. For the record, this was a freshly downloaded copy of ZoneAlarm Free 8 from the Zonelabs website.

 

[Shadow703793]

AVIRA anti virus

+1 same here. As for firewall, got a Linux box (an old 939 lol) + a few adons to do the work.

 

[AtuBrian]

avast

 

[gitano]

Avast and the windows firewall do the job for me

 

[boldgamer]

I was using Avast but noticed a file that I use to "test" my virus protection didn't flag Avast when using Windows 7 (still does when using XP). It even allowed me to run the .exe without even once flagging me. So I switched to AVG and it flags me before I can even click on the file.

For my firewall I'm using Comodo. I prefer Zonealarm but the free version doesn't work under Win 7 yet.

 

[saint19]

Trend micro officeScan

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

KIS 2010!

 

[Zoron]

Tried ZoneAlarm IS since it's free from my ISP and I hated it... caused too many internet issues. I don't remember what version it was, but it certainly turned me against ZA.

 

[jonpaul37]

Avira Antivirus, windows firewall...

 

[PatrickGSR94]

Awww crud! I'm the only one using Microsoft Security Essentials with Windows 7.

You're not alone. I just installed MSE this morning on my newly-installed Win7 Professional x64.

But I only did that because my copy of Ye Olde Symantec AV Corporate 8.0 (been using it since college, has always worked great) won't work on x64 systems it seems.

 

[rickp227]

Awww crud! I'm the only one using Microsoft Security Essentials with Windows 7.

You are not alone, I started using MSE as soon as I installed Win 7. So far it works great.

 

[dpnaugle]

I have have been very happy with avast and he Win 7 fw. No problems and no bugs. I will never go back to AVG or NIS.

DPN