BullGuard Anyone?

I was just wondering if anyone out there is familiar with BullGuard as a antivirus program and as a software firewall? My little brother has been running his PC for accouple of months now with a broadband connection and no firewall or antivirus software. I told him he was crazy and proceded to find the first free antivirus software I could on the internet. Bull Guard is running right now and is finding awhole bunch of stuff but I was hoping some of the more experienced users could tell me if this program is any good as far as antivirus and firewalls go. I use Norton but I'm getting sick of having to pay for updates every month. Anyone got any advice?

i'm using AVG at the mo, its pretty gd, and free

AVG? Is it totally free or just as a trial?(like BullGuard) :Oo:

anyone who thinks Norton is a comprehensive AV (antivirus) program is a noob.

no offense but norton catches "virus" only. norton is AV which means it doesn't pick up "trojans" softwares like keyloggers etc.

Bullguard is good but it doesn't pick up all the trojans either.

i am currently running
- norton (to pick up the "big" or famous viruses) its an ad hoc approach
- Bullguard ( for pickup 30% of trojans) and some firewall
- Sygate firewall (firewall only).


If you're using Broadband then you have to run a firewall 24/7. with broadband it takes 2 second to download a big-Ass 2mb virus/trojan/keylogger all in one. while on 56k at least you get some warning by the slow connection.

and a good idea is to format your PC once every 3 month too. because some trojans/virus will change your registery and disable/bypass your AV and FW softwares.


Hope that helps
SCow

Thanks for the advice. I'm behind a hardware firewall on my PC and run Norton as stated above. I really don't like it at all though, its always on my "to do" list to change it but I never seem to get around to it. I noticed that Bull Guard said they protect from trojan horses, its good to know exactly how well it does so. :thumbup:

For what it's worth, I have been running cable for around 3 years now with no protection other than ZoneAlarm.

Yup, no virus scan. :dennis:

During that time, I have dealt with one virus, and that came through my wife's email.

Yea, I think some people are abit too overprotective when it comes to viruses and such. But then again I'd rather be over than under prepaired.

zone alarm is quite good but IMHO it give a lot of false alarms

Originally posted by secretCow@Nov 25 2003, 02:29 AM
zone alarm is quite good but IMHO it give a lot of false alarms

I don't care about the alarms so much, just that it locks down my comp for in AND out.

If something on my PC wants net access, I know about it. ZA has warned me about a lot of programs that try to gain access that don't need it, which just gives another way in for bad stuff.

Originally posted by secretCow@Nov 24 2003, 07:46 AM
anyone who thinks Norton is a comprehensive AV (antivirus) program is a noob.

no offense but norton catches "virus" only. norton is AV which means it doesn't pick up "trojans" softwares like keyloggers etc.

Bullguard is good but it doesn't pick up all the trojans either.

i am currently running
- norton (to pick up the "big" or famous viruses) its an ad hoc approach
- Bullguard ( for pickup 30% of trojans) and some firewall
- Sygate firewall (firewall only).


If you're using Broadband then you have to run a firewall 24/7. with broadband it takes 2 second to download a big-Ass 2mb virus/trojan/keylogger all in one. while on 56k at least you get some warning by the slow connection.

and a good idea is to format your PC once every 3 month too. because some trojans/virus will change your registery and disable/bypass your AV and FW softwares.


Hope that helps
SCow

Just out of curiosity, how does being on 56k give you 'some warning'?