What Security do you use?

charlieheard

gareth1608 wrote: »

Just wanted to post our experiences with McAfee to warn others.
We had an e-mail yesterday from McAfee telling us that they had taken £50 off our credit card for our renewal. We had no warning this was going to happen, they had used the details of our card on file (we last paid a one off fee almost two years ago!), and our software was telling us that our renewal wasn't due until the beginning of November!
When we rang up they explained this by some lies about 'old software' and 'new software' and that our system is sorted until November 2009. They never apologised for taking the money, but did refund it all. According to them we agreed to all this when we signed up (despite us knowing we hadn't because we look out for that small print!).
Be warned if you have McAfee - you must ask them to remove your card details, even if you paid it all in one lump sum, and you must ask them to remove the automatic renewal request too.
Hope this saves some money and hassle!

This certainly used to be very common. When people signed up online with them, they setup something like a direct debit mandate on your credit card (forget the proper name). You have to write to them and tell them to cancel it :eek:

You had to search very carefully through the options and T&Cs to avoid this. Does anyone know if they're still doing this? I could imagine it will hack a lot of people off, but some will be glad of the "security"

moneymass

Paid subscriptions to anti virus vendors for security solutions that are for personel use are a waste of money.


< / general security and money saving observation>


Also, regarding NoScript (if it hasn't been mentioned already, skimmed through), it also has pretty good XSS, or cross site scripting, prevention, which alot of users (and apparently web devs :rolleyes: ) don't understand much about.

Millionaire

moneymass wrote: »

Paid subscriptions to anti virus vendors for security solutions that are for personel use are a waste of money.

In your opinion.

I personally don't mind paying for something that I deem to work better for me even though free alternatives are available. One time or the other I've used most of the free ones but I prefer my paid for version anyday and dont deem it a waste of money.

moneymass

Millionaire wrote: »

In your opinion.

I personally don't mind paying for something that I deem to work better for me even though free alternatives are available. One time or the other I've used most of the free ones but I prefer my paid for version anyday and dont deem it a waste of money.

May have sounded a bit strong, of course I meant in my opinion.

It being the result of a (partly and ever so slightly) mis-spent youth in 'security' where I've found for that the best 'security' is a product of

-hardware firewalls running specialist operating systems, IDS's, proper encryption techniques, properly configured home networks with up to date operating systems (*nix and windows), properly managed user accounts, browsers than are updated regularly and can be modified heavily e.g. sandboxing, rootkit/AV checkers

blah blah blah and none of which i've had to pay for.

Most vendors rely on an end user 'fear' (similar to alot of 'specialists' in other fields) that usually comes about from a lack of knowledge.

As a money saving option, with some research and appropriate action there's no reason that one can't save on such a subscription.

slidebite20

First and foremost I would ditch Internet Explorer and use Firefox which is a more secure browser and adds fantastic addons like 'flashblock' or 'noscript' to keep the risk down to a minimum. As for security software I use...

1) Avira AntiVir Personal (Freeware) PC Pro Best Value Award
2) Comodo Firewall Pro (Freeware)
3) Trojan Killer (Freeware)
4) Truecrypt (Open Source)
5) KeePass Password Manager (Open Source)

Davesnave

slidebite20 wrote: »

First and foremost I would ditch Internet Explorer and use Firefox which is a more secure browser and adds fantastic addons like 'flashblock' or 'noscript' to keep the risk down to a minimum. As for security software I use...

1) Avira AntiVir Personal (Freeware) PC Pro Best Value Award
2) Comodo Firewall Pro (Freeware)
3) Trojan Killer (Freeware)
4) Truecrypt (Open Source)
5) KeePass Password Manager (Open Source)

I would use Firefox, and I do for some specific tasks where its add-ons are useful, but I find it displays text etc differently from IE 7 and the overall result isn't as readable or easy on the eye.

Is there any way of changing the display, other than text size, which I know about? Just a thought, because it seems a bit of shame that the whole thing looks crude compared with IE7 on my screen.

aliEnRIK

Davesnave wrote: »

I would use Firefox, and I do for some specific tasks where its add-ons are useful, but I find it displays text etc differently from IE 7 and the overall result isn't as readable or easy on the eye.

Is there any way of changing the display, other than text size, which I know about? Just a thought, because it seems a bit of shame that the whole thing looks crude compared with IE7 on my screen.

Doesnt on mine! Goto VIEW, maybe the character encoding will make a difference? Ive never really heard of that before

aliEnRIK

slidebite20 wrote: »

First and foremost I would ditch Internet Explorer and use Firefox which is a more secure browser and adds fantastic addons like 'flashblock' or 'noscript' to keep the risk down to a minimum.

Since I installed NOSCRIPT ive never EVER had a virus alert pop up from browsing the web. I think THAT speaks volumes for it

moneymass

Davesnave wrote: »

I would use Firefox, and I do for some specific tasks where its add-ons are useful, but I find it displays text etc differently from IE 7 and the overall result isn't as readable or easy on the eye.

Is there any way of changing the display, other than text size, which I know about? Just a thought, because it seems a bit of shame that the whole thing looks crude compared with IE7 on my screen.

Try hitting F11 when you have Firefox open or View -> Full screen.

Right click just above the URL bar and unselect any toolbars that you don't use/need (or View -> Toolbars) e.g. there's sometimes an empty silver bar that acts as a bookmarks toolbar.

:question:

aliEnRIK

moneymass wrote: »

Try hitting F11 when you have Firefox open or View -> Full screen.

Right click just above the URL bar and unselect any toolbars that you don't use/need (or View -> Toolbars) e.g. there's sometimes an empty silver bar that acts as a bookmarks toolbar.

:question:

ahhh
Of course. I missread what he was talking about (duh!)