Norton vs Zone Alarm

Do you want to choose between pestilence and cholera, SCNR?

Wolfgang

Are you comparing firewalls, ZoneAlarm (free or Pro) vs. Norton Personal Firewall -- or antivirus products (I'm not sure if ZA has a standalone AV product vs Norton Antivirus -- or are you comparing suites (ZA Suite vs. Norton Internet Security)?

Many folks will say you need both a firewall and AV product these days.

Craig

PS--For what it's worth, I use ZoneAlarm Pro (Windows Firewall didn't seem enough for me -- and I switched from Norton's firewall to ZA a few years ago when their just-released product was buggy, and although their development folks knew about the problem, they weren't permitted to share their info with the Symantec off-shore customer service folks.) I also use the current Norton AV but am tempted to switch to AVG some day for AV protection.

-=c=-

Whoops, sorry, Tom. I see now that ZA does offer a standalone AV product. I haven't ever used it and have seen no discussions in the newsgroups about it, either, although there may be some.

Craig

Ditch both, use AVG free or pro for antivirus

Ignore the bloatware NIS/ZA and get a decent firewall either running on an old box e.g. IPCop or one of the better Netgear models e.g. FVS318/338 which can be configured with a fairly decent ruleset.

Of course, every product can be rendered useless by user behaviour these days ;-> Knowledge and threat awareness is the only solution.

Cheers, E.

Actually I guess i would want to compare Zone Alarm Suite and NIS. I think i am farely protected now with my router firewall, Zone Alarm firewall, and Norton AV 2005. I saw ZA Antivirus at Compusa for free after a 30.00 rebate, wondering how good it is....thansk for the help...tom