Linux friendly Win antivirus firewalls/antivirus?

[bmusson]

If your only choices are between Norton and Black Ice, I vote for Norton.
Blackice has been shown to be vulnerable to some attacks. Have you looked
into Zone Alarm? It may be a low (zero) cost option that would work fairly
well for you.

Bill



----- Original Message -----
From: "mathisha" <mathisha at hawaii.rr.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at maile.hi.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 1:01 PM
Subject: [luau] Linux friendly Win antivirus firewalls/antivirus?


> With much reluctance (long story) I have to reinstates the supply of
electricity to my windows machines
> (NT workstation sp6 and 98) and plug them both into the net). I'm trying
to get a grip on the herds of
> antiviral and firewall options out there. Specially a firewall antivirus
combo that is friendly to *nix/Mac
> partitions/files.
>
> Not sure where to get a reliable review/overview so I'm groveling b4 the
gurus here. What I've read on
> the net I'm dithering between Norton products and Blackice defender.  Cost
is a factor. Both machines
> won't be on the net frequently but I don't feel secure plugging a network
cable to a WIN box on-line
> without protection. Any recomendations based on your experiences/wisdom?
>
> thanks in advance
> mathisha
>
>
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