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I dont like using the big names in the biz b/c they have to many holes. I use Zonealarm and AVG. Its almost a perfect setup for an average user.
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« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2005, 08:40:47 pm » |
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Keep in mind that zone is now owned by checkpoint. I have a few friends that work at checkpoint, plus I've use it pretty extensively and they make good stuff. I work for a competitor to them, though, so I can't push them too hard  |
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« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2005, 09:06:02 pm » |
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Anyhow, I think you'll find that security products aren't any different from the products that they are supposed to protect - they were written by people, people who often make mistakes or are ignorant about secure coding practices.
Vulnerabilities tend to be found in software at a rate that is proportional to the number of people that are using the software.
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« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2005, 04:01:03 pm » |
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I have to say, I'm fine with the norton products, they keep me safe and secure from all I know about, haven't had any problems yet.
I use norton personal firewall and norton antivirus, they both go together, and they both work really nice... but the downside is that more space than i'd like is being used by them for running
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« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2005, 04:47:11 pm » |
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Keeping up to date on patches, using an A/V program, and putting your computer behind a nat router will prevent about 99.99% of threats. The rest are prevented from not going to porn sites.
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« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2005, 10:39:33 am » |
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I just started using clamwin for AV and it seems to work great. I use the XP SP2 firewall and a linksys router, which works out really well.
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« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2005, 02:23:24 am » |
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The rest are prevented from not going to porn sites.
Oh no~ i'm doomed  Jokes, jokes |
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« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2005, 07:28:39 pm » |
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What good is the internet if you can't enjoy the porn?
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« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2005, 09:44:22 pm » |
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i never use any av, infact none is worth tryin.. 2 different av's cant do anything similar..  |
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« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2005, 09:54:41 pm » |
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Information Security is my occupation and I would duly disagree. I think there are some crappy A/V programs, and I also think that many A/V's don't work well at cleaning up an already hosed system, but the rate of growth of viruses is accelerating, and they're becoming much more sneaking in their purpose. The motives behind viruses has changed from destruction or the "wow - look at me" factor, to a financial motive - getting your computer infected with a trojan to either steal your ID and financial information and/or turning your computer into a member of a bot net. Other fun things are installing adware that will bug the crap out of you while you surf, but most of them don't appear noticeable when you get infected, because the writers don't get their money if you fix your computer.
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« Reply #10 on: December 03, 2005, 08:42:59 pm » |
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I use windows firewall and as far as anti virus are concerned,
i have tried
Norton , uses 70% of resources at start up
Panda Platinum , makes your computer slow after a few days.
Avast, ruined my computer, deleted some system 32 files and i had to restore the computer
I am now using Kaspersky and it seems to do the job better than any other.
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« Reply #11 on: December 03, 2005, 08:43:55 pm » |
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Kaspersky is supposed to be pretty good. NAV is a big bloated piece of trash.
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« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2005, 02:12:10 am » |
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I use NAV on my desktop computer because with large memory, high performance computers it excels.
But when I try to install it on my 1ghz celeron laptop with 128mb ram all it causes it problems.
So in conclusion with high performance machines NAV is good.... but on low performance machines the less bloated programs are better
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« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2005, 08:23:59 am » |
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That's pretty much my experience with it too
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« Reply #14 on: December 04, 2005, 11:18:09 am » |
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i use ms spyware beta and a windows firewall
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