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Originally Posted by NoSanninWa
Now, I've got a question: Can anyone recommend good Firewall and Anti-Virus programs for me? While I would prefer free or cheap programs, what I'm really interested in are programs that have minimal system overhead. Are there such programs that will do the job well, without slowing my system or eating up resources? It would be worth paying for such programs if they worked well. Unfortunately the market leaders have turned into bloatware and other programs seem to have other problems.
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For antivirus programs, I've had great luck so far with
avast.
Hasn't crashed on me, hasn't taken up too many resources (my system is somewhat dated as a 1.8 GHz, 1 GB of RAM PC).
I use Windows firewall, but keep hearing the name Zonealarm brought up as an excellent program.