off topic
Route44 said:
Have you considered Online Armor's free version? It is receiving the highest rating.
Having looked at the product site, I have personal issues with that product.
begin rant:
(forgive me; my prior engineering experience is biased here AND we're (
I am ) going way off topic).
A good product should to ONE thing well instead of trying to be the one-shoe-fits-all
security solution. We (engineers) call that over engineering the solution.
The primary edict for R&D is the primitive engineering guidelines:
- the implementation must be sufficient to effect the goal
- AND contain only necessary content to make it work
Btw:
the product features are enumerated here
A good firewall does not need (imo should not contain) an IDS (Intrusion Detection System) feature.
Neither should it contain the AV feature. If it is bloated with extra 'features', then it
should be configurable to exclude everything to the point of being useless
(ie avoiding all features means runs nothing). Sure that's absurd, but the point is
the USER should be able to choice what is running and not have it forced upon him/her.
I've been running AVG 7.5 on my laptop and the darn thing wants to scan the HD
every time I boot -- how wasteful! So I've disabled Real Time Scanning and perform
this manually when I'm ready to do so -- certainly NOT when I'm on battery
power at some hotspot and need to conserve power.
The product appears to be headed into the abyss that Norton Internet Security Suite took
and which generated the well know BLOAT WARE tag (and conflicts) with other products.
end rant
Don't get me wrong -- I love to see good products succeed and this may be one of them.
Personally, (as said several times elsewhere) I'm a minimalist and run a tight ship.
There's no simple solution to the Internet Security problem and (imo) all players are welcome.
