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Originally Posted by ryanfx
The best way to do it is a hardware router / firewall and then get a good piece of software anti-virus. Unfortunately anti-virus' are prone to be system hogs as it is the nature of what they do. They are constantly scanning. If you want you can fiddle with their options so they scan less, but then you would be compromising the safety of your computer. I don't even think that answered your question but that was my $.02
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im with ryan on this one, a hardware firewall is 100x better then a software one and it frees up so much resources which can be used for your antivirus system. my motherboard has a hardware nvidia firewall integrated into it. i actually dont use an AV program anymore, i always used to use norton but got to annoyed trying to constantly crack it
and its such a resource hog. McAfee is just plain annoying, their suite came with my dads dell and its sooo friggen annoying. i used kaspersky for a lil while and i didnt like it that much, it was kind of a resource hog and was as configurable.
one good all in one program that i found (not actually an all in one program, but one that incorporates a lot of programs) is called hitman pro. its a program that will automatically run between 4 and 8 ad-ware programs, between 1 and 3 free AV programs and misc other things to free up clutter on your computer. the best thing is the program itself is free. the only ads you get are for the external programs themselves. i highly recommend it.
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Originally Posted by LS1Hawk
Do any of the manufacturers make a wireless modem & router with firewall? The only ones I've seen are just wireless routers. I would need one that can accept the DSL line and then send the signal to the other PC in my house. Could I just hook a hardware firewall up to the current wireless modem & router I have?
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i dont think they make that, but you could check out linksys' , belkin or netgears websites. i think your best solution would be to get a wireless router with a 4 port switch (they usually have the firewall integrated) and then piggy back a modem