[RESOLVED] Avast & ZoneAlarm

[MikeCan]

OS: XP pro
CPU: Pent D 805
RAM: 1 GB

Hey all,

I'm looking for a low resource using PC protection solution.

Just a few quick questions. I've been using NIS/NAV 2006 for a few weeks now and I'm appalled by the amount of resources it hogs on startup, it takes several minutes before I can startup any programs and I can only imagine how slow it would go if I didn't have a dual core and a gig of ram *shudder*.

I've been looking around this morning for some new solutions. I used clamwin for quite a while as an AV solution, but never really had the opportunity to see how effective it is. I'm impressed by the options given by the avast!4 Home edition and I've seen positive comments all over the web, I'm pretty sure I'll go with that.

The avast!4 home offers some resident protections along with network and web shields, are those comparable to a firewall? For example should I be going with ZoneAlarm (firewall) and avast!4 (AV) or would avast!4 along with ad-aware (for spyware) be enough to protect my pc?

I've also seen the ZoneAlarm Suite mentioned quite a bit here and elsewhere, how would that be on my system resources as well?

Trying to keep my options open. I can afford ZoneAlarm Suite, but free is always nice!

Thanks beforehand for your time!