PC Tools Threatfire vs Windows Home Server 2011

I had merely touched on a Anti malware called Threafire (http://www.threatfire.com/) in my previous post, which claim to be very effective and could be combined with other AV products to increase effectiveness. I had tried the product for a while in the past. It is not very heavy in memory, but I think eventually, it is something like a IDS with cloud analysis. This is a really good and cheap addon if you only have the AV component.

For my WHS 2011, I had been tweaking to get the best AV/Firewall combination working. In the end, my last configuration was:

• Comodo Internet Security 2011 Pro (Firewall Off)
• Threatfire 

It turns out that I am unable to open the Dashboard from a remote workstation. I pinpointed the problem to Threatfire somehow blocking it and there is no configuration to unblock it. So, in the end (for now), Threatfire is kicked out of the WHS and everything is working fine now again.

So, after a extended period of hunting, the best combination I could get working is Comodo Internet Security 2011 Pro without the Firewall enabled. Let me know how you addresses your WHS 2011 AV/FW needs!

Bullguard Internet Security and Windows Home Server 2011

The long awaited Windows Home Server 2011 had finally gone final into RTM. I did not hesitated too long before going for the upgrade. Despite WHS2011 losing DriverExtender (which is both good and bad), there are other merits of WHS2011 to think about. Firstly, its built on Windows Server 2008 R2 which is no doubt far better in performance and security than the previous Windows Server 2003 (and not even R2). There will be more drivers support as well as easy server backup. Drive Extender is actually also a pain when it comes to recovery, but WHS2011 uses normal files system which you can copy anytime.

Despite the good, I seems to always find the bad as well. I wondered why. I am running Bullguard Internet Security which is based on BitDefender. One my first client, things actually works and WHS2011 backup successfully. However, on my subsequence deployments, they all failed. After uninstalling Bullguard, WHS2011 actually manage to connect and work, but as soon as Bullguard is installed, its block once again. Offline - According to WHS2011.

I had email Bullguard support and with a little hope and luck, we may be able to get this working.

Compare WHSv1 and WHS2011:
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