What Security do you use?

theloft

Still on dial-up, running Norton AV, Sygate firewall, AdAware SE, Spyware Doctor & Spyware Blaster. Had problems with kerio-pf & Zone Alarm. Now Sygate seems to want to block programs that I have told it to allow !! Did we all realise what we were getting into !!

QuidProQuo

I suggest you all get Microsoft Antispyware beta

It just picked up 20 spyware items on my PC that Spybot, Spyware Blaster and Ad-Aware 6.0 Professional all failed to detect

Edit:
My System as follows:
Hardware firewall (wireless router)
Windows XP SP2
Zone Alarm
AVG Free
Spybot S&D
Spywareblaster (flash killer on)
Ad-Aware
Microsoft Antispyware beta

I need some kind of software to keep teenagers off dodgy websites, I use Internet Explorer which is very easy to configure, password and block but my son uses MSN Explorer and there doesn't appear to be any protection or blocks for MSN

peter_the_planter

I run with the following but S.W.M.B.O. reckons I'm paranoid.
Wireless/modem/router
Ad-aware
Spybot S&D
Spywareblaster
Ccleaner
Nortons firewall/antivirus
Microsoft Spyware
Firefox
Unp&p
HiJack this
Tweak XP
Paranoid but clean.
They come with something so rarely that I often wonder if they're working.

Fran

Any more? It's interesting to see the variety and amount of security people use and how it works or not for you.

andy88_2

Zone Alarm free *
AntiVir by H+BEDV

SpywareBlaster
SpywareGuard
AdAware
Spybot S&D
MS Anti-Spyware - just downloaded; 0 problems

I think Spybot & SpywareBlaster are the main ones; block ad/tracking cookies and bad sites. I used to have a cookie manager, but it would turn off the SB settings rather than add to them.

* ZA5 only recently; I stuck with 4.5.594 for a long time as the original version 5 clashed with unrecognised AV products; I think I've got the AV monitoring off at the moment.

Did everybody take WindowsUpdate as understood? Some friends wouldn't use it; if it works why disturb it? Then they got MyDoom or Sasser or something. So persuading friends to improve their security should help.

Junk emails - some people talk of Mailwasher or similar programs. I don't bother with any of this and got 3 junk messages in the last 16 months. My username is just my initials which probably helps; not a name which some junk mailers use for dictionary type lists eg john.smith@... The main thing seems to be not to have your email address on webpages; disguise it so it doesn't look like an address to crawler 'bots. If you get a lot of html junk, it might be worth turning off the Preview Pane in your email program, as there may be embedded beacons that send back an ident that you have seen the message, hence validating your address.

mbspuk

I'd be interested to know how much security people have on their PC's to prevent spware, viruses etc. I've not had a single problem (spyware/virus/anything!) on my PC since having this package (all free). I run this on a Celeron 2.6 Mhz with only 128MB, so it takes a few minutes to boot up completely. But it's worth it.

Avast! (Antivirus)
http://www.prevx.com/

Prevx (host intrusion protection)
http://www.prevx.com/

Ewido (extra anti-virus/malware/spyware protection)
http://www.ewido.net/en/

Microsoft Antispy (anti spyware)
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

Zone Alarm (firewall)
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp

Firefox (browser)
(http://www.firefox.com)

Spyware blaster (anti-spyware) http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/products.html

Fran

Perhaps you could add your info to this thread?.....What security do you use?

Glad

couldn't you just merge them fran?

mbspuk

glad wrote:

couldn't you just merge them fran?

Apart from that my authorship has now been lost!

theloft

mbspuk wrote:

Apart from that my authorship has now been lost!

Too many people start new threads when there is a thread already running, covering the same subject!
Microsoft's new Anti Spyware is only suitable for those running Windows XP or 2000. Those of us on Me, or 98 and steam 95 can not use this programme.