DSL connection

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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First, sorry for the english… I’m french.
Once 2 days I install avast 4.5, since my connection is very very slow, to go to the net I need to stop the standard shield, is it normal?
download on the same file: 1Ko/s with the shield and 110Ko/s without…

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Bonjour Lemurien

Bienvenue sur le forum avast…

No, it’s not normal to stop the standard shield to browse the net

What is your system spec (OS, CPU, etc) ?

Are you sure it’s the standard shield that you stop or the network shield ?

Farfouille

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Merci…
Today, I’m back home and I can browse the net without desactivate my shield (???) , perhaps my provider…
System:
OS XP with all updates (no SP2), CPU XP1800+, 512 DDR, 120Go IBM (40+80)
DSL 1024Ko (since 3 weeks ago)
Sygate + avast!

Before I didn’t go on the web regulary (because 56K :-), so I don’t really know the soft for who can protect me on the web… if someone can help me…

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Personally I use :

Anti-virus

Anti-trojan

  • ewido (only as backup scanner)
  • a2 (or a square) (only as backup scanner)

Anti-spyware

  • spybot S&D
  • spywareblaster
  • ad-aware SE (free edition)

Firewall :
windows XP SP2 - behind my ADSL router firewall (US Robotic USR8054)
I may replace SP2 fw with kerio free edition or outpost (shareware)

And last but not least :

  • firefox instead of Internet explorer
  • thunderbird instead of Outlook Express

At the moment I’m also giving a try at prevx.

The only programs that stay all the time in RAM are :
avast
prevx (under test)

I can also recommend you this french site where you can find many useful informations about computer security :
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/websecurite/

I also recommend you to see the signature of our ‘avast evangelists’ (Technical, Eddy, sorry for those I not mention). You will find links to nice tools and advices.

And…keep reading/posting in avast forum… You are at the right place :wink:

Farfouille

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Thanks… with this I hope I can protect myself (and my friends to… ;))