Windows 7 Security

I have been asked about Win­dows 7 Secu­rity and Anti-virus packs. Here is what I am using on my main sys­tem which hangs 24/24 on the internet.

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When 2 years back I unin­stalled my Nor­ton Inter­net Secu­rity pack, it was as if my Com­puter started breath­ing again. Noth­ing against the qual­ity of Norton’s fil­ters, but the pro­gram was so heavy, that my per­for­mance was suf­fer­ing notably. Also, and this I noticed with most secu­rity pro­grams, the inter­face is not really user-friendly. You need a PhD in fire­wall con­fig­u­ra­tion in order to use the soft­ware effi­ciently. The basic set­tings are too timid and tend to scare peo­ple more than assur­ing them because of all the pop-ups indi­cat­ing that Nor­ton has just saved you again from a Tro­jan Horse, a Dragon, a witch or other horrors.

My expe­ri­ence is that the Win­dows Fire­wall is largely good enough for aver­age and pro­fes­sional users. Maybe that real IT freaks miss all the lit­tle but­tons and tabs to fine tune the con­fig­u­ra­tion, but that’s a neg­li­gi­ble minor­ity any­way. (Yeahhh, I am one of those…).

So, with your Win­dows 7 just use your Win­dows Fire­wall in stead of charg­ing your sys­tem with a heavy pro­gram (and your bud­get with 50 bucks per year).

In any case, don’t use two Fire­walls; if you use an exter­nal pro­gram for the pur­pose, dis­able the Win­dows Fire­wall as run­ning both will result in con­flict­ing behaviors!

With­out list­ing all the pop­u­lar free and paid pro­grams let me just rec­om­mend the

You can use them also on other Win­dows dri­ven sys­tems. The pack pro­vides an antivirus solu­tion which inte­grates per­fectly with your Windows.

Microsoft Secu­rity Essen­tials are a Beta ver­sion (but then, what’s not beta these days any­way — Vista should never have made it even to beta :-)) and it’s free, pro­vided you run Gen­uine Win­dows Software.

Microsoft Secu­rity Essentials

“Microsoft Secu­rity Essen­tials pro­vides real-time pro­tec­tion for your home PC that guards against viruses, spy­ware, and other mali­cious software.

Microsoft Secu­rity Essen­tials is a free* down­load from Microsoft that is sim­ple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is pro­tected by the lat­est tech­nol­ogy. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple.

Microsoft Secu­rity Essen­tials runs qui­etly and effi­ciently in the back­ground so that you are free to use your Windows-based PC the way you want—without inter­rup­tions or long com­puter wait times.” (As per Microsoft)

The user inter­face is clear, easy to use and to set up. Read more about Alert Lev­els.

Why look for com­plex and costly solu­tions if an inte­grated solu­tion is avail­able for free?

PS: The Secu­rity Essen­tials are hooked to Microsoft’s SpyNet — read the terms.

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