So our network at home has been steadily growing, the eldest now in middle school and wants to use a laptop more than her desktop (but still wants both), wife now has a laptop and just added a HTPC to the mix. Counting my WHS we now have 7 PCs total all being used.
I've used Trend Micro Internet Security for several years now and been fairly happy with it for performance, decent enough anti-virus/malware capabilities, good website filtering/blocking and parental controls. Renewal is coming up and my wife has tasked me with obtaining another license for both laptops and the HTPC (since it comes with licenses for 3 computers).
I figure this is a good time to decide if I want to change to a different product. Not many of the products around offer parental controls, which is vitally important for making sure my eldest keeps off the malware infested sites she invariably ends up at. Also handy for my own browsing as sometimes I'll end up at some website that happens to be exploited. (please don't start sprouting crap like FF+adblock+noscript blah blah)
So does anyone have recommendations for a product that could offer the following:
I see Eset now offers Parental Controls in their Smart Security product and have generally heard good things about their protection.
Alternatively, forgetting about per-computer protection and going for a dedicated gateway protection device instead to provide the web protection and filtering? Is this feasible for low-cost non-enterprise yet?
I've used Trend Micro Internet Security for several years now and been fairly happy with it for performance, decent enough anti-virus/malware capabilities, good website filtering/blocking and parental controls. Renewal is coming up and my wife has tasked me with obtaining another license for both laptops and the HTPC (since it comes with licenses for 3 computers).
I figure this is a good time to decide if I want to change to a different product. Not many of the products around offer parental controls, which is vitally important for making sure my eldest keeps off the malware infested sites she invariably ends up at. Also handy for my own browsing as sometimes I'll end up at some website that happens to be exploited. (please don't start sprouting crap like FF+adblock+noscript blah blah)
So does anyone have recommendations for a product that could offer the following:
- Provide 5-6 licenses (or purchase 2 separate ones)
- Good anti-virus/spyware/malware etc realtime protection
- Parental controls for category based website blocking
- Very low performance impact
- Standard features like folder exclusions, reporting, 64bit compability
I see Eset now offers Parental Controls in their Smart Security product and have generally heard good things about their protection.
Alternatively, forgetting about per-computer protection and going for a dedicated gateway protection device instead to provide the web protection and filtering? Is this feasible for low-cost non-enterprise yet?