Comments on: Free ThreatFire Adds Extra Protection to Your PC

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:27:08 +0000

My question is how much does it slow down your computer? I think the best bet is to have a second computer running linux that you do all your random browsing or downloading with. Install the clamwin standalone executable, and then you can scan anything suspicious while in a safe environment.

Actually when I was using it there was very little memory and processor usage being dedicated to the program. As with some programs it my slow down your computer over time, but I didn't notice a difference in speed at first.

CoryC wrote:

I hope it does better then the firewall which has a memory leak. It was using over 1,000,000 Kb of memory.

That is definitely a bad memory leak, but I haven't noticed any issues with this program.

S wrote:

you linked the article(first link in article) to a webroot product not pc tools product. http://cybernetnews.com/2007/1.....-firewall/ is the correct link

Oops, thanks for the correct link. :oops:

pacifika wrote:

Installed it on two pcs, two scans found 2 hidden xml files in my temporary internet files which naturally shouldn’t be there - otherwise fine. Am impressed with it not having any noticable effect on performance on me, desktop search has a lot bigger slowdown then this. So even though I’m not running any realtime anti-spyware app, i can keep this running.

I'm glad it worked out well for you, and that you didn't have a big performance hit.

By: pacifika

pacifika — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:49:13 +0000

Installed it on two pcs, two scans found 2 hidden xml files in my temporary internet files which naturally shouldn’t be there – otherwise fine. Am impressed with it not having any noticable effect on performance on me, desktop search has a lot bigger slowdown then this. So even though I’m not running any realtime anti-spyware app, i can keep this running.

By: S

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:28:33 +0000

you linked the article(first link in article) to a webroot product not pc tools product.
[cybernetnews.com]
is the correct link

By: CoryC

CoryC — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:44:52 +0000

I hope it does better then the firewall which has a memory leak. It was using over 1,000,000 Kb of memory.

By: douchrti

douchrti — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:25:09 +0000

Thanks for the info. I’ll check it out. It will be interesting to see how it performs on my puters.

By: The Geek

The Geek — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:16:22 +0000

My question is how much does it slow down your computer?

I think the best bet is to have a second computer running linux that you do all your random browsing or downloading with. Install the clamwin standalone executable, and then you can scan anything suspicious while in a safe environment.