Although, it does score 99.4% on AV Comparatives... but so does Kaspersky. I won't be recommending this anti-virus to anyone.

I use an old version of Kerio (I do not think it exists as a personal free firewall anymore) in addition to the hardware firewall that comes with my router. I like to be able to control application behaviour. Kerio has a smaller footprint than the other software firewalls I have tried - Norton, McAfee, ZoneAlarm and Sygate, and is stable. I t only crashes if I try to open the GUI while running Azureus...

I read about Winpooch earlier in this thread, though. It seems like it might do the work just as well - I shall give it a try, and compare the two.

right now i'm using windows firewall but the best is winpooch if it is configured.

In two days i will reinstall windows xp with no firewall, no anti-virus and no anti-spyware. I will install them maybe a month later just to scan and see if my nLited system is immune to that kind of stuph.

This is because I removed IE, explorer.exe, some services, command line utilities and lots more. I'm will be using Opera as web browser, blackbox as shell and xplorer2lite as file manager. I think I will not need any Firewall/Anti-virus/anti-spyware.

My install is the same except I do use explorer.exe. I've tried several shells but have always come back to explorer since I'm old fashioned and just used to it. I don't like having to get used to navigating my PC as soon as Windows loads up.

My install is the same except I do use explorer.exe. I've tried several shells but have always come back to explorer since I'm old fashioned and just used to it.

you had any spyware/adware/virus/etc with that instalation???

and you use updates????

I want to have a system with no firewall/AV/anti-spyware because I only got 192ram and 500Mhz processor

and

I don't like having to get used to navigating my PC as soon as Windows loads up.

I don't understand this sentence... bad english

Edited September 10, 200619 yr by _sergio_

I think that english was fine, maybe trouble translating it though

Malware/viruses, never.

Updates = RyanVM's Update Pack and AutoPatcher or Jcarle's WUD.

What I meant was, I don't like using other shells because I don't like having to get used to navigation of my PC all over again, when I can just use explorer.exe like I've been using for the past 12 years and know where to go.

Edited September 11, 200619 yr by Jeremy

I've just moved to the security-less suite. No firewall, no AV. I've been running this way for a week now without problems. Outpost started giving me problems when I tried to connect to my university servers, so I went to nothing.

Now I understand. And it was MY bad english

I can't use RyanVM update pack because there is no portuguese version but i will try to extract some portuguese hotfixes and replace the files on my UACD for the ones in the hotfixes.

And thanks for the info Zxian. Tomorrow I will install it too. Just some final adjustments to reg files and applications. But there is one thing I don't understand: if Remote Registry, Telnet, and more things in XP are bad for security then why are they released? Didn't use Vista and I can't but are these services in Vista?

I'm currently using BitDefender Internet Security Suite version 10. Problem is I can't get the parental controls working, though I enabled it.

if you need good parental controls software for home use check out 'K9 web protection' its free and what i recommend.

well, I reread this thread to determine which one is the best but I can not ans stiill say the same things since last post.

I've just moved to the security-less suite. No firewall, no AV. I've been running this way for a week now without problems.

I do the same on one of my machines, but it's one that I don't store data on, don't use for banking, etc. People who know what they're doing can get away with it, but as a mod I'm not sure you should be suggesting this is a good idea, without saying why. People new here might follow by example, and get in trouble.

As stated b4, usign Sygate, but this is outdated now, as they wer etaken over by symantec...booo...so im currently testing Outpost, and liking it.

im currently testing Outpost, and liking it.

can you post later on your setting for best performance?