I was wondering what you all thought was the best anti virus and firewall? What I mean is what has the best protection and uses the least amount of resources?

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Linux.

Well if you must use Windows... I'd suggest Avast Home and Comodo Firewall.

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Unfortunately I must be cause of my wireless usb card

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KDE 3.5.10

Avast Home and Comodo Firewall does a great job I use it and had no problem with either of them.

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What sort of wireless card are you using, and what Distro?
It's probably possible to get it working, even if you need to use ndiswrapper.

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I am using a Belkin f5d9050 and am using freespire.

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KDE 3.5.10

AVAST + commodo if you want free

But NOD32 for paid anitvirus

NOD32 is really good. Not only it updates every day, but also it scans your computer while you're working and almost not consuming resources at all. I've been using it for an year now and I'm really happy about it.

i use a program called zone alarm for firewall and it works good for me.

ZoneAlarm Firewall (Windows 2000/XP) - Reviews and free ZoneAlarm Firewall (Windows 2000/XP) downloads at Download.com

I used to think zonealarm was the shit - until it went on a rampage jamming up/freezing my computer.

I uninstalled it - the problem stopped. Somebody here, when I posted about it said that was the problem and that they experienced it too.

It's good in terms of protection, but it also rapes your computer in some cases (although mine was the only one I've seen it do it on).

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The great thing about NOD32 is not only is it effective but it doesn't really slow your computer down all that much while it's running.

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I was told to use AVG anit-virus by a guy at my local computer repair shop. I haven't had any problems with it, but on the other hand I don't think it has ever detected a virus on my computer. I don't know if there just isn't any or if the program doesn't find them! So should I change anti-virus software?

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Give another program a try, like Avast - if you go for Avast, set it to do a boottime scan. Let the new program do a scan [make sure the old one is uninstalled first] and see if you find any viruses.

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I enjoy the Avast / Zone alarm combo. Avast is excellent at catching viruses before they get in, and zone alarm is good at stopping anything that sneaks passed. It's also great that they're both free

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