Whats best internet security suite

[Gazcoop]

Hi i have norton at present but its up for renewall so do i change it or keep are their better ones out there ??

Cheers

[x64united]

I wouldnt use a suite just use individual apps like:

Zonealarm firewall
NOD32 AV
Spybot
etc

[blueball]

The only guaranteed security suite is a set of wire cutters!

[Gazcoop]

Ok what are the best ones then and for what applications

[Moby-Dick]

It depends on what you want to do . There is no Panacea for Online Security , inspite of what you are told. You can only really take a layered approach.

- Anti Virus Software ( Free or otherwise , but keep it updated )
- Personal Firewall ( I personally just use the windows firewall , but Zonealarm etc will do the job and give you some control on outbound connections from your machine
-Spyware ( again plenty of products available , I'm told the latest windows offering isn't bad , but it seems you have to overlap a couple of products and keep them updated for best coverage )
-Network design - not deliberatly exposing your machine to the web unless needed can help ( ie using a NAT router with only relvent ports forwarded )
-Common Sense

[dave87]

NOD32, Windows Firewall, NAT Router & Peer Guardian = serves me well

On the Spyware front - Lavasofts one, or Spybot Search'n'Destroy

[Splash]

As Moby says you need to take the onion approach (think in terms of many layers) - I've been using FSecure Internet Security for 2 or 3 years now, behind a smoothwall firewall and a Draytek Vigor 2600 router - sees me fine. And despite what many sites may tell you putting a machine in the DMZ to bypass port forwarding issues is a bad idea - get the port forwarding set up properly.

[x64united]

The windows firewall only blocks inbound connections doesnt it?

[excalibur2]

Free zonealarm and free antivir work well together.

[badass]

The windows firewall only blocks inbound connections doesnt it?

It blocks whatever you want it to.

[excalibur2]

On the Spyware front - Lavasofts one, or Spybot Search'n'Destroy

Freebie "Hijackthis"........ can be useful to track some stubborn pests down.

[dave87]

Indeed, though that requires some skill in analysis

[UltraMagnus]

kerio personal firewall and avast! here, works great

[Funkstar]

Interesting thread.

No way i'm installing McAfee again once i wipe my laptop sometime in the new year.

[chrestomanci]

I brought a copy of F-Secure from scan for about £10 It is working nicely so far, and appears to be getting the balance between protection an paranoia about right.

One reason I went for F-Secure is that when the Sony rootkit fiasco broke about a year ago, F-Secure where the only anti-virus company to classify the root kit as malware to be removed instead ignoring the problem to try and not offend Sony.

[dave87]

Didn't NOD32 do the same? I'm sure I read that somewhere...