by Patr1ck on Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:52 pm
-Anti-Virus - AVG. I used ot have McAfee but it would use up my resources alot sometimes. I like AVG, but when I installed it I didn't install the Outlook plugin, and I can't find out how to install the plugin without reinstalling AVG. Also, I turned auto update off, but it will turn itself back on if I don't manually update in a certain time period.
-Firewall - Sygate. I like it alot more than Zone Alarm and I was never able to get Norton's to work correctly. A few times it has messed up when Explorer.exe crashes and all of a sudden it blocks anything to or from the internet on IE. A restart always brought it back to normal. I haven't had that happen for a long time, though.
-Spyware, etc. - Same as you. Ad-Aware, spy stuff, etc. I have regprot which I like that it notifies me anytime something tries to make a program start when my computer starts, and I can deny it so it doesn't add it to the registry. I also have SpywareGuard. I think its simlar to an Anti-Virus program scanning in real-time for spyware. I wasn't sure it worked until I ran an Ad-Aware scan a few weeks after I installed SpywareGuard, and the amount of crap that I needed ot clean with Ad-Aware was significantly reduced. I don't even recall the last time I had to run an Ad-Aware scan. I wouldn't consider it a replacement, though.
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