I’m a Comcast internet user and Comcast offers free McAfee security software to their clients. I haven’t been interested in McAfee for years because I think they lack in keeping up with current trends and creating programs that do a great job while not taking up a lot of system resources.
Well some of that changed today when I decided to check if the software was Vista compatible and to my surprise it finally was. So I said what the heck, and installed just the Personal Firewall Plus. It installed fine and only takes up about a meg of ram while in use. This surprised me a lot…
This firewall works well, has a lot of features that you can configure, isn’t annoying, and doesn’t take a lot of resources to run. I’m almost impressed. I’ll see what I think of the new Zone Alarm when it’s finally ready for Vista. For now I really like this McAfee solution and here’s a screenshot.
A few things. In order to manually allow programs through the firewall or to configure a host of other advanced options, you have to actually log into Vista as the administrator. Another feature that I like is that the security center will notice if you have antivirus and antispyware installed and will be okay with it. That’s nice.
