Reliability Questions

[jRnn]

I admit that I'm cheap, so I tend to rely on freeware/shareware.
I thought I'd ask if you know how reliable such programs as H+BEDV Antivir v.6 and Tiny Personal Firewall, in fact, are.
Comparisons to F-Secure etc.?

P.S. Any anti-spyware program you could recommend? (It has to be free )

[Scott Tiger]

I put quite a bit of faith into Sygate's Personal Firewall but I've never used Tiny or F-Secure so I have nothing to compare to there. Here's a link for Sygate:

http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm


It's free for personal use so it meets your price criteria.

[vass0922]

I'd also suggest AVG antivirus, I've never heard of that one (not to mention you're relying on your machine to be guarded by a version .6! BETA!

(www.grisoft.com)

I've heard Tiny is pretty good, but like Scott I rely on Sygates personal firewall (the free version)

[jRnn]

Thanks for your replies!
Both AVG and Sygates p.FW seem at least more reasonable than my previous programs...
Still, any opinions on anti-spyware, such as Webroot ?

[vass0922]

Ad-Aware (www.lavasoft.de)

Spybot (do a google search can't remember the website )

[muno]

Didn't kerio buy tiny off and tiny isn't distributed anymore?

It was pretty good firewall - which I don't use because I couldn't get their connection sharing program to function...

I also use sygate, along with their homenetwork.
-M