What Security do you use?

teeldee

perriless wrote:

The trouble is that since I downloaded AVG my computer is on a total go-slow (snails go faster).

Hi

I am not an expert at these things but if your PC is running slow all the time, try uninstalling AVG (or if you have XP use "system Restore" in Control panel to go back to the time before installing AVG. The possibilities are as follows.... if Internet is slower but the pc is generally OK then possibly you have more than one anti virus or firewall program running. Go through your installed programs list in Control Panel and see what is installed. If on the other hand the whole thing has slowed to a snails pace, then something is probably hogging your memory (RAM) this could either be a virus or a bit of spyware or adware (the latter should be picked off by spybot) or maybe your Temporary Internet files need clearing Try running a virus check if you haven't uninstalled it.

The main point to remember is to try to think back to when the PC was ok and examine what has been installed since then and eliminate the problems
one at a time.

If you need further help, please leave a message on this board, outlining your operating system / RAM size / Disk capacity / Software you use

Regards

TLD

calibrax

teeldee wrote:

What model do you use? I have been looking at a Linksys WAG-54g wireless router, but I have heard that they can overheat.

I use a WRT-54G... it's has wireless, plus 4 ports on it for wired machines (two of my PCs sit right next to the router, so they don't really need wireless).

I previously had the BEFSR41 (pretty much the same thing but without wireless). Never had any problems with either of them. They certainly don't overheat - both were on 24 hours a day, and didn't even feel warm when I picked them up. But then, as I am on cable, neither of the routers I have include a modem - I have a separate cable modem. The WAG-54G is an ADSL router, so it will have a modem, maybe this has overheating issues? I do remember reading somewhere about people having overheating problems with the WAG-54G.

Hope this helps.

Steve

ManAtHome

The WAG-54G gets warm but not hot - I don't leave mine on 24 hours and have plenty of free space around it. I initially had it stacked with a Linksys switch on a shelf where it did get noticably warmer, but not to panic levels.

judderman62

NOD32 - anti virus
Sygate - Firewall
Ad-aware - adware remover
spybot - adware remover/ie home page reset stopper/registry change stopper
a2 (a squared) - Trojan remover

and I dont use IE or Outlook express

Browser I have IE (not used), Firefox, Opera and Mozilla - Mozilla used 94% of the time

Mail client I use the bat (allows you to look what is sat on your mail server before choosing what to download from it and what to delete from it


oh and lastly a very good security measure ................ a fair sprinkling of common sense

freeonline

Symantec Norton Internet Security 2005 Antispyware Edition
All in one.

James240

hiya

I use Norton Anti-virus and Firewall and Spybot Search and Destroy. Doesit for me peeps lol

James

poorbabe

I use:

Metronet's firewall
McAfee Guardian
McAfee Viruscan
Adaware (free version)
SpyBot Search and Destroy
NetSpyProtector

Mozilla browser
IE (rarely)

would installing Microsoft antispyware be overkill?

judderman62

poorbabe wrote:

would installing Microsoft antispyware be overkill?

No - But I prefer to avoid things Microsoft where possible :beer:

rabialiones

please help:-
my avg was no longer valid, so i uninstalled it and replaced it with avast, which worked ok for a couple of days, then i found i could not access many sites, especially ones i had to log on to. e.g. ebay, msn, banking , mail order etc.
upon using system restore to go prior to avast , they were then accessible , so i tried to then install E7, i was having problems installing this , so i system restored again .
so now i have avast , but again no access to many sites.
i did have aol, which i also uninstalled as i was no longer using it.

any ideas on how to resolve this issue,
luckily , i can at least access this site.

The_JinJ

I run a Linux desktop so have iptables firewall enabled - no anti virus but I should really