Comments for What Really Slows Windows Down

I showed your data to a person over at HardOCP in the OS forum and he is claiming your data is BS and that it is common sense that AV progs don't cause a performance hit. Funny guy.

You only tested one firewall and the free version of ZoneAlarm is not the best out there, even for the price. ;-)

I would recommend including Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0.22.349 or later in the next round of testing. It's the only FREEware firewall that earns a 95%/73, 10+, Excellent rating at Matousec's Firewall Challenge. Online Armor Personal Firewall 2.1.0.131 FREE also beat out the PAID version of ZoneAlarm Pro with 89%/73, 10, Very Good... just 1% point below Excellent, and the paid version of Online Armor boosted that 89% to a near perfect 98%, achieving an Excellent rating, although it only made it to level 10 without passing all tests, as Commodo did with a 10+.

Even ZoneAlarm Pro 2009 8.0.020.000 only earned 86%/73, 10+, Very Good. You can just imagine how far down the list ZoneAlarm Free would have been.

http://www.matousec.com/projects/firewall-challenge/results.php

BTW, the reason I would like to see a better firewall tested is that your research seems to support the idea of replacing the Norton Security Suite with more efficient "best of breed" for A/V, A/S and Firewall, as well as banner ad and popup blockers. NOD32 seems to be a no-brainer for the A/V in both effectiveness and performance, SpySweeper is a fairly obvious choice for A/S, but Commodo seems to be the best of breed FREE solution for effectiveness (and nearly matches the best PAID products), but we need to be able to compare its performance.

I would also be interested in how Sunbelt's new Vipre compares. Perhaps it could replace NOD32 and SpySweeper for use with Commodo. "VIPRE combines antivirus, antispyware, anti-rootkit, anti-malware and other security technologies into a seamless, tightly-integrated security solution." However, I haven't seen third-party comparatives of Vipre for its effectiveness in protecting vs malware yet.

iF Vmware was a social tool. The bootVis by booter was firewall. With interface Raid system one that is system raid. The operation Windows xp was in Vmware of Microsoft VM social tool. The symantec was provided mapping tool.