firewall problem

[basil fawlty]

Hope some one can shed some light on this for me i am using sygate firewall the free one and the puter seems to have slowed right up i uninstalled it and everything was fine so reinstalled it but same thing happened again usingKeiro at the mo, i used to use zone alarm free but had the same prob am i missing something have done all the usual scans nothing out of the ordinary has been found so stump anyone had similar probs thanks for any help dudes...

[Mickey]

what you got is a failure to communicate
love that saying

but basically the firewall/antivirus is scanning all the actions you do and is slowing you down

why not uninstall all the sw and try the built in windows firewall i know its shiit but if that is as slow then you prob got issues with your computer not being able to take it

on my kiddies computer, she has a sim problem as norton just eats up the computers speed, so i use pc-guard, this is a free software from the V1rg1n set of shysters, you could try that

[basil fawlty]

Have just put on comodo firewall pro and dumped Keiro, looks good everything running ok so fingers crossed has had some good reviews too, and it's free..
get it from here if anyones interested.. http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

[koola2]

Basil,

How is the comodo firewall still going strong?

Anyone else use this, worth instaling!

[hangmansjoe]

I have used Comodo for a while now, it is a bit fiddly to use but pretty good

[Mr.James]

i found it real buggy in the past but i'm sure they've ironed out the kinks by now.
i just run with my router's firewall+nat and windows firewall and once a month use mcafee pitstop online scan to scan for viruses. plenty enough protection.