The AVG Personal Security Edition offers the standard AVG Professional functionality plus a brand new personal firewall. The firewall was designed with focus on easy of use and configuration. Even an unexperienced user should be able to configure the firewall to provide reliable protection against external threats. At the same time, the firewall should not present an obstacle in everyday computer usage, forcing the end user to answer questions that he or she can’t understand and answer properly. Yet even advanced user will find most of the “bells and whistles” that they know from other firewall products.
This is a first beta version that is intended primarily for preview. We DO NOT recommend to install this version on a mission critical or production machines! Moreover, this version is intended for Windows 2000 and Windows XP operating systems ONLY! Future versions will support Windows 98 and Windows Me, too - but this version DOES NOT. Before installing this beta version, please, read the installation instructions! We also strongly recommend that you download and go through the manual.
You can download both the installation package and installation instructions from the Downloads section. The appropriate license number is included in the installation package.
I think AVG’s interface is more cumbersome than it should be and I don’t
know if those cumbersome configurations would help AVG gets more robustness.
But I don’t think AVG is a bad product as some people always say, it’s good enough to protect its users anyway.
On my machine avast! is light and doesn’t slow down as AVG but avast! has many more strong features that really help avast! gets more efficiency so I have no reasons to look back to AVG anymore.
Seem the guys from Grisoft started before ;D ;D
Will we run faster now? ;)
Yes, Grisoft and AVG believe in "future development". I had sent something to the Avast guys on a promising firewall that had the code for purchase. I thought that it might be a great addition to Avast but have heard nothing further on it. I am not in favor of an all inclusive module (AV and FW) but a combo pack from the same vendor is always a good idea.
Will this suite be for free (home user)?
First release of the Beta version AVG Personal Security Edition is available for download and tests. Beta version of the AVG Personal Security Edition works only with Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
If AVG is true to form, the final will be a suite with some advanced features disabled, very similar to what we have with Avast Home and Pro.
user continue to use standalone (antivirus and firewall) products?
This is most likey, but if the suite works out, then "support" of the older configurations may cease in lieu of the newer package.
Computer Associates has the only decent firewall and AV combination in the form of Etrust. Never used the firewall but I have used their AV quite a bit and like its simplicity and protection. If I had to purchase a firewall as well as AV program it would be Etrust.
As an aside:
If you know where to look Etrust always offers a one year subscription for their AV program for free too. You just need to know where it is located this year. Just do a Google search on “ez antivirus microsoft”
Both EZ AV and Avast are both great programs. One is basic and dependable and the other very aggressive and not for the beginner. I always recommend one or the other depending on the person.
I have used an old version of their firewall, and it was exactly the same as ZoneAlarm. So why pay for something when you can get the exact same thing for free? >:(
Hi,
apparently what we have to test is still a beta (or alpha), so we might expect some changes in future. Anyway from what we’ve seen with pk it seems to be entirely based on user mode filtering in LSP level. This means that Grisoft’s DLL is loading itself into every process accessing the net and here it monitors Winsock function calls.
This might sufficiently stop outgoing connection attempts from regular Winsock apps but might provide only very limited low-level firewalling work. It does not protects the tcp stack and cannot stealth ports. Custom (patched) winsock.dll might be also used to prevent the LSP from loading. Also note that TCPIP can be called directly bypassing the winsock and the firewall, so this further limits it’s usability. I am not sure (and uninstalled AVGFW already) but I also doubt it can block ICMP traffic.
I must admit however that with the conjunction of Win XP firewall it might provide the outgoing apps control which is missing in the XP2 FW.
Anyway, you can try it on you own and make your own judgments. I can hardly feel as an independent tester and I think we can wait for the final version.
No, I won’t… Thanks… A lot of problems to workaround…
I’ve tested the antivirus and won’t lose more time.
I’ve done my judgments by the way they behave with the free AVG version.
Me, less then…
We have license from Vlk to be avast fanatics ;D (haven’t we, Vkl?)
I’m much less independent than you 8)
