best firewall & antivirus ?

i have windows2003 web edtion as i want know what is the best firewall i can use with plesk 7.0.2?

and what is the open ports i should permit (include remote desktop) ?


about the antivirus ? is norton good? and what is better?

thanks

 

We do not use the firewall provided by plesk and microsoft. A professional environment needs a hardware firewall like SonicWall.

You need to open the ports to access HTTP, HTTPS, Mail, FTP and some other, depending what services you will offer.

Personally, i don't like Symantec at all. We're using Sophos and BitDefender,

Sophos is quite expensive, but it works perfectly.

 

firewall

i think win 2003 web edition don't have firewall?!
i know that plesk have firewall, can i config it ?

thanks a lot

 

To be honest, never tested ;-)

Yes, Plesk comes with a open source firewall. You can configure the firewall easily. To get more infos about it, please browse or search the forum and at least, check out the plesk manual.