What Security do you use?

adouglasmhor

Rouge

Rogue

Rogue


If you are getting rouges on your computer use less slap no firewall or antivirus is going to help.

Jaffa.

digital-one wrote: »

Ps everyone should check if telnet is enabled, if it is disable it, you dont need it for most home uses, and it is one security hole that can easily be fixed, also change the computers administrator name, and give it a password. (xp pro) with home it can be done too but its not as easy.

But if the router's password has been changed from the default should it matter if telnet is enabled on the LAN? after all, you can just go to http://192.168.1.1 anyway

I believe for both XP Pro and home to change the hidden administrator account it's start > run > type 'control userpasswords2' > reset password on administrator.

aliEnRIK

st wrote: »

use avg free for few years but people go on about avira is it that good and does it scan incoing e-mails as avg does ?
thanks

Yes its that good. No it doesnt scan emails

digital-one

thanks adouglasmhor, my brain and fingers have had a fight lol, i have dyslexic typing fingers :P they have been suitable admonished. :P

@jaffa, i only gave an example of telnet, i wanted something safe to demonstrate, I used telnet because most software firewalls wouldnt by default allow it, but an open router will if your on the lan. I didnt want to give anyone information that could be used in a real attack. i just wanted to demonstrate the router wouldnt block something that is potentially dangerous, if you can login as admin, then you have full control. telnet for that purpose i think is an example, maybe i could have explained it better, but i hope you see the point i am trying my best to make.

BUT because i still want to protect people, i came up with a sensible alternative, thats better than the router, smoothwall.org *a software firewall that runs on relatively old equipment with 2 networks cards. This will give you a decent internet firewall and will NOT affect your pc performance.

Anelly

I only use Avast antivirus

jackja3

I use AVG7 and zone alarm pro

nancy711

Avast antivirus and zone alarm

tried mcafee and norton but both seemd to clog up my computer

aliEnRIK

jackja3 wrote: »

I use AVG7 and zone alarm pro

AVG 7.5 no longer has updates does it?

Jaffa.

It's nice to see people still buying AVG :rolleyes:

friend_on_msn_messenger wrote:

And btw.. ive brought an anti-virus.. does 3 pcs, 2 yrs, avg summet, came out this yr. Cheap but least its summet. "norton anti-virus has expired" (Y)

£35 on that! :wall: and the best thing is Norton anti-virus had expired about 6 months ago when the 30 day trial ran out, ugh.

Jaffa.

Thats a thought, will the Instant Messaging Encryption in AVG work with the Instant Messaging Encryption in Bitdefender?