best firewall and antivirus software

[onearmedscissor]

what is the best firewall software and the best antivirus software? i don't care what the price is.

 

[tazdevl]

I suggest you do a search before posting, plenty of topics covering something as common as this.

There are some links to reviews in one of the the last 10 or so posts in this thread:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=33&threadid=1248485&STARTPAGE=6&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear

Firewalls: ZoneAlarm, Kerio, Outpost, Sygate and LooknStop are all solid products. Some are easier to use than others, others have privacy options like cookie management and ad blocking. Figure out what you're looking for can't really go wrong with any of them.

 

[Schadenfroh]

links to really good freeware firewall and antivirus in my sig

 

[Matt84]

ZoneAlarm + AVG

Total Cost = $0.00

 

[n0cmonkey]

OpenBSD was rated as the number one firewall for Windows by a Windows mailing list.

 

[Raincity]

KAV 5 and Sygate 5.5 Personal Pro serve me well.

 

[slpaulson]

Panda seems fine for me.
And you can get it for a year for free.