What Security do you use?

the_calypso

you cant go wrong with...

AVG anti virus
Spy bot search and destroy
Adaware
Zone Alarm

All free of course.

pingu

hi
bought this for my son

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/152233

think it came with mcafee

last week i put on antivir and ccleaner

for some reason it doesn't let me do things like i used to on my old PC which has antivir ccleaner spybot and adware


things i noticed wont allow me to shop using quidco

this morning wanted to book £9.50 sun holidays but it kept sending me to the first page after i entered codes etc..

tonight went on my old pc and it let me do it but the dates and place we wanted to go are not available now:mad: and i used quidco the other day on old pc

anyone now what the problem is?

should i put some other security on laptop?


many thanks

adouglasmhor

ChristopheB wrote: »

For Linux I was going to suggest using iptables. This will probably be available from YAST. I believe it can be a pain to set up though. The following sites might help.

http://beginlinux.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/build-a-simple-iptables-firewall/
http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up-an-iptables-firewall-with-firehol-on-ubuntu

It seems however, that OpenSuse does have its own application called SuseFirewall2. From a quick scan of the documentation this seems to be a wrapper application for iptables.

http://en.opensuse.org/SuSEfirewall2
http://forums.opensuse.org/archives/sls-archives/archives-suse-linux/archives-network-security/archives-security/366215-susefirewall2-iptables-can-i-select.html

To be honest, I haven't used either as I am happy with the protection from my router. Hope this helps...

Thanks. I want a firewall as it's my travelling laptop and it's a dual boot OpenSuse and PC-OS (an Ubuntu derivative so has it's own firewall by default). I use it in hotels and pubs which have free wi-fi so I trust my own stuff but not everyone elses.

pingu

espresso wrote: »

Did you fully remove McAfee?

no i have not removed anything

just added antivir and ccleaner

aliEnRIK

pingu wrote: »

no i have not removed anything

just added antivir and ccleaner

Then you need to as they both scan 'on the fly' (You only ever use ONE main scanner)

Marty_J

the_calypso wrote: »

you cant go wrong with...

AVG anti virus
Spy bot search and destroy
Adaware
Zone Alarm

A quick read of this forum would suggest you're mistaken.

Zone alarm is OK, and Ad-Aware and Spybot are pretty good, though I'd suggest trying Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and SuperAntiSpyware.

As for AVG, it seems to be the worst of the free anti-virus solutions. I'd recommend Avira AntiVir or Avast instead. Many have been surprised by what they find lurking on their computer that AVG totally missed.

DealCruncher

Marty_J wrote: »

A quick read of this forum would suggest you're mistaken.

Zone alarm is OK, and Ad-Aware and Spybot are pretty good, though I'd suggest trying Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and SuperAntiSpyware.

As for AVG, it seems to be the worst of the free anti-virus solutions. I'd recommend Avira AntiVir or Avast instead. Many have been surprised by what they find lurking on their computer that AVG totally missed.

Agreed that AVG seems to have some problems, plus the popups reminding me to upgrade are rather annoying..

On the plus side, doesn't seem to slow my system a much as Norton does.

WEEGIE

DealCruncher wrote: »

Agreed that AVG seems to have some problems, plus the popups reminding me to upgrade are rather annoying..

On the plus side, doesn't seem to slow my system a much as Norton does.

Norton Internet Security 2009 does not slow things down, that was the case years ago but things have changed since then.

aliEnRIK

WEEGIE wrote: »

Norton Internet Security 2009 does not slow things down, that was the case years ago but things have changed since then.

Do you use it? Someone posted on here last month and they said its even worse!

johncolescarr

The best security measures you can take is to switch to linux, inherently safe and not targeted by theives since most people use windows therefore all virus/spyware/etc is targeted at windows.

For linux users, sitting behind a router or running a firewall should make a virtually unbreakable machine