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| Thread ID: 95909 | 2008-12-21 01:42:00 | PC Security setup? | jwil1 (65) | Press F1 |
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| 731344 | 2008-12-21 04:07:00 | AVG, ZoneAlarm, Ad-Aware and Spybot. I have great faith in CCleaner which I run before I close if I've been to www.dodgysites.com and I dont do P2P or download movies or screensavers or any of that stuff. Seems to work. | mark c (247) | ||
| 731345 | 2008-12-21 04:14:00 | AVG 8.0, update ever day, background scan every day. Spybot S&D, update ever few months, scan ever few months. firewall? no software firewall, just a NAT router. windows updates automatic. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 731346 | 2008-12-21 04:42:00 | Firewall only - usually just in the routers, occasionally on an end PC if I need something fancy. The last option in your poll is the only one that should be there ;) Any of the others and you are not covering all the bases.That depends very much on what you're trying to protect. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 731347 | 2008-12-21 05:13:00 | Firewall only - usually just in the routers, occasionally on an end PC if I need something fancy. That depends very much on what you're trying to protect. All the PC's on this LAN - We have had it a couple of times where just been on general sites, Eg: Stuff, PC World, Google searching for information and WHAM - up pops a warning from one of the security programs, generally Nod32 & Spyware terminator at the same time - saying something is trying to install, several times its been a variant of the Antivirus 2008/9 malware. Had several times that someones tried to hack in and Nods Firewall Threw up a warning and stopped them. Dont do any torrents apart from legal ones, (yes there are some, and not movies or music). But you dont have to have torrent programs, my wife and sons PC dont have any, yet about once a week one of them gets hit with something trying to get in that shouldn't. Today for example, my son was looking on stuff - and got hit with a warning from Nod that some Trojan was trying to install. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 731348 | 2008-12-21 05:21:00 | I'm one of them BW :p Ah, but you use anti-spyware too. I was only referring to AV-only people (no FW, no anti-spyware) |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 731349 | 2008-12-21 05:23:00 | Ah, but you use anti-spyware too. I was only referring to AV-only people (no FW, no anti-spyware) Ah ha ok then |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 731350 | 2008-12-21 05:28:00 | All the PC's on this LAN - We have had it a couple of times where just been on general sites, Eg: Stuff, PC World, Google searching for information and WHAM - up pops a warning from one of the security programs, generally Nod32 & Spyware terminator at the same time - saying something is trying to install, several times its been a variant of the Antivirus 2008/9 malware. Had several times that someones tried to hack in and Nods Firewall Threw up a warning and stopped them. Dont do any torrents apart from legal ones, (yes there are some, and not movies or music). But you dont have to have torrent programs, my wife and sons PC dont have any, yet about once a week one of them gets hit with something trying to get in that shouldn't. Today for example, my son was looking on stuff - and got hit with a warning from Nod that some Trojan was trying to install. You missed my point - it was a reference to my being a Linux guy, and as such I have no use for an AV or antispyware product, as I'm not trying to protect anything other than Linux systems. Linux AV/spyware scanners don't exist anyway - there is nothing for them to watch for. Edit: I'm aware that there are scanners that run on Linux, but these are still Windows scanners (i.e. they look for Windows malware). There is no point in running these unless you're trying to catch nasties before they get transferred to a Windows box - a common use is in mailservers. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 731351 | 2008-12-21 05:38:00 | You missed my point - it was a reference to my being a Linux guy, and as such I have no use for an AV or antispyware product, as I'm not trying to protect anything other than Linux systems. Linux AV/spyware scanners don't exist anyway - there is nothing for them to watch for. Well thats a point :D I didn't realize that you only had Linux, I know Linux doesn't get hit with the same bugs as Windows, and thats a good thing I spose, but I do know there are a couple of AV's that support Linux, as I found one on the latest Xubuntu when I was "playing" about with it the other day - Mind you who knows what will happen in the future - some clever bugger will figure out how to infect Linux computers no doubt. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 731352 | 2008-12-21 05:42:00 | Well thats a point :D I didn't realize that you only had Linux, I know Linux doesn't get hit with the same bugs as Windows, and thats a good thing I spose, but I do know there are a couple of AV's that support Linux, as I found one on the latest Xubuntu when I was "playing" about with it the other day - Mind you who knows what will happen in the future - some clever bugger will figure out how to infect Linux computers no doubt. Those AVs you're talking about are Windows ones (i.e. they scan for Windows viruses) - see the edit in my previous post. I'm sure somebody will eventually write something that works, but for now I'm thankfully safe. And the Windows guys have you to look after them :D. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 731353 | 2008-12-21 05:48:00 | nod32, SASW, SWT, ccleaner,MB. get these and your sweet :D | GameJunkie (72) | ||
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