Re: choosing firewall and antivirus: Norton or McAfee ? And anonymity

McAfee and Norton are both resource hogs.. better to try Zonealarm and AVG
or BitDefender..

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Mike Hall
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User



"unstablemicrosoft" <unstablemicrosoft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Hi. I have narrowed down my choices to Norton and McAfee for a firewall
and
anti virus. It's best to have the firewall and antivirus of the same
manufacturer.

What I like about McAfee is that it's anti virus program has an
aggressive,
heuristic approach to what might be viruses or malware and who are not yet
in
the DAT file. How is Norton's product in that regard ?

Norton claims that it's firewall is completely stealthed, but is that true
for all ports, including 0 and 1 ? I suppose it doesn't make my presence
on
the internet invisible, or am I wrong ? Basically, I have a static IP
adress
(cable ISP), reverse DNS possible. Officially I have a dynamic IP adress,
but
that changes rarely. So my computer name acts like a supercookie, as said
on
www.grc.com. This is just an intermezzo, but I'll ask it anyway: there are
ways to be anonymous on the internet, but are governments, criminals and
hackers not especially after proxies or other ways to remain anyonymous,
making one even less secure ? It would be easy and safe if my ISP had a
proxy
server, but it does not. Any recommendations to stay REALLY anonymous on
the
internet (I'll allow cookies, except tracking cookies) ? I'd have to
hide/change my IP.

Ok, back to the original question: is Norton anti virus aggressive towards
possible viruses of which no entry in the DAT files have been made yet ?
And
how does it compare overall to McAfee's anti virus ?

And now the firewall ? Which one is better, Norton or McAfee, and why ?
Any
vulnerabilities ?

Please give me a comparison of those two. McAfee and Norton.

Even if you don't know both, I'd appreciate your input. I'd have to buy
one
of these soon.

Kind regards,
Unstablemicrosoft


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