anti virus/firewall to use with IB?

[battle river]

hi. i'm using f-secure right now and it's causing problems with my Ib prog. so i'm thinking of changing. i tried norton and didn't like it too much. any suggestions would be great. i was thinking of using a router for the firewall but my main concern is having the IB platform run smoothly. thanks very much

 

[BigBubba]

i use sygate's free firewall fwiw.. no problems w/ IB .

* also have a router which i would recommend as well.

 

[gaj]

i use an offshoot of zone alarm (CA's e-trust ez armor/firewall), and it works fine.

 

[rcj]

McAfee(not firewalled) and Windows Defender.
Linksys router(firewalled). Ive never had a problem
using this setup with TWS.

... rj

 

[BSAM]

Windows Live OneCare.

 

[NYCYK]

AVG-Free and Zone Alarm (Free), no problems so far on XP.

 

[Thunderdog]

Free AVG and free ZoneAlarm. Seems to work better than the Norton or McAfee "suites" that cost money and were not particularly satisfactory.

 

[acerbits]

I wouldnt recomend a software firewall, they eat up resources and arn't always effective. Get a good router based firewall and a good AV like NOD32 or Kaspersky

 

[battle river]

superb info.thanks alot. i didnt think about the router part.that sounds like a good idea. the f-secure is eating up resources and i think thats why it's messing up the Ib platform.

 

[acerbits]

Quote from battle river:

superb info.thanks alot. i didnt think about the router part.that sounds like a good idea. the f-secure is eating up resources and i think thats why it's messing up the Ib platform.

you can look into this device http://www.alphashield.com/home.htm reviews for it's effectiveness are pretty good.