Free programs for Vista

[Lare Kikkeli]

Do free firewall/virus scan programs like avast or sygate personal firewall work on vista? If not, what are the alternatives? I'm setting up a friends laptop and i'm not sure if i trust windows firewall to do its job..

 

 

Thanks in advance.

[metadigital]

Wouldn't their websites tell you that?

[Diamond]

Perhaps he wanted to know if they really work, not what vendors say?

On the other note, I thought Vista has a decent integrated firewall unlike XP's atrocity, no?

Edited May 26, 2007 by Diamond

[Lare Kikkeli]

Yeah i left the Vista firewall up, i've previously read that it's good enough. My friend's also got Norton Antivirus for free for 2 months (yippee.... ), so after it i'll have to install a free one for her. I'm thinking Avast, it has served me well enough on XP. I'm open for suggestions though.

[roshan]

Whatever you do stay far away from McAfee and Norton. Theyre pretty much viruses already as they slow down the system a lot and take hours to remove properly.

[metadigital]

There was a lot of anger in the Security industry when Microsoft kept their Vista kernel design so tightly under wraps from them; I think this may have been adjusted now, though, and it is likely that Microsoft was just trying to get to market before the competition. If a company has a Vista product, then it will have been re-engineered for Vista (unless it's a dodgy company).