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Your computer protection!

Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:27 pm

What do you use?

I use:

Anti-Virus: Norton Corporate Edition
Firewall: Zone Alarm Pro
Spyware/Variant: Lavasoft Ad-ware, Spybot, spyblaster
Others: CWShredder, Hijack

Am I missing anything I should have? I think I'm lacking some trojan protection :?:

Anyways, what do you have and what would you recommened?

Re: Your computer protection!

Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:29 pm

I use:

Anti-Virus: Avast Anti-virus (hey, it's free alright?)
Firewall: Windows XP Firewall :lol:
Spyware/Variant: Spybot, Ad-aware occasionally


usually your anti-virus program will catch the trojans as well.
mine does.

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.

Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:57 pm

hmm for some reason all I get when I run ad-aware & spybot nowadays are just "tracking cookies". I mean, I try my best to keep that shit off my comp, but should I not be expecting anything worse to pop up in these programs when I scan?

Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:16 pm

That's pretty much all I get, too. There are worse things than tracking cookies. Browser hi-jacking, "spyware" which can report your activities, steal your passwords, install software that downloads more spyware, etc.

http://www.spycop.com/spyware-safety.htm

Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:43 pm

Anti virus: NOD32
Anty spyware and firewall: Zone Alarm
PC cleanup: Tune Up Utilities

Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:53 am

None of those things are really necessary, in my opinion. They're just another tech-related thing to spend money on. I've never had a virus or any kind of compromised system in my life.

That said, I keep a-squared Free and Ad-Aware on my computer just for fun with no firewall.

Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:17 am

Use Kaspersky lab antivirus, it's the best !

Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:42 pm

I've been using Norton Internet Security for the past few years but I'm looking go to AVG once my subscription runs out in about a week or so.

Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:03 pm

Kaspersky...you need nothing more.

Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:22 pm

I've put a condom over my hard drive. Had no problems up to now.

Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:01 am


^^ I was expecting a reply in that sorta way :lol: .

Well I was using Kaspersky and it screwed me badly,I got a virus while updating :eh: .

So after I loaded a fresh install of Windows,I've been using extra protection in NOD32,Claim Free Anti-Virus (pretty good ) and zone alarm as a firewall.

Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:14 am

dada wrote:Kaspersky...you need nothing more.


second that

Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:58 am

I formatted my computer last week and started using NOD32 together with Outpost Firewall and it's been doing well so far. Better than it did with Norton (in every way).
As for extra programs, I use CCleaner, Ad-Aware, AVG (used to be Ewido) and CWShredder. But these ones I only run once a month, or when I have reason to believe I've caught something..

Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:25 pm

i use mac free through aol i use to use norton until i got a virus on my computer and i had to reformat it the only reason i use macfree is because i can view the ip address that are trying to access my computer i really dont care about the viruses or anything because most of that is pretty easy to take off yourself if u know what you are doing

Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:08 pm

BaNgO-BuNcH, please use some punctuation. I can barely understand that.

Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:17 pm

does anybody know where can I download a free anti-spyware :?:

Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:28 pm

emi_b7 wrote:does anybody know where can I download a free anti-spyware :?:


http://www.download.com

Search up Ad Aware or Spybot Search and Destroy. Spy Doctor is good as well, but you gotta pay to get rid of the stuff found..

Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:07 pm

Firewall: McAfee
Anti-Virus:McAfee

Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:03 pm

Spyware: Macscan
Firewal: In-Built Mac os/x

Everything else doesn't effect my Macbook. Spyware doesn't really either, I just use Macscan to cleanup.
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