Security Tango!

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I use AVG for anti-virus
and Zonealarm for my firewall

I have used both products for 2-3 years, no problems with either
 
Thanks Jon

The children's PC was using a free trial of McAfee (that I thought was poor) but it's just expired. So tomorrow shall try D/L AVG and giving that a go. :)
 
Be sure to check out the steps to the Tango, I use all of the programs except for ZoneAlarm. I junked Norton Professional something or other for AVG. securitytango.com is run by a local computer guru that is on our airwaves, I also saw him in a local play as an actor!
:popcorn:
 
Some more links:

Here you'll find some useful tools against spyware like StartupList, HijackThis, CWShredder, BHOList, etc.

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/index.html

Here you can download SpywareBlaster, which can help prevent the installation of spyware - there's other useful stuff there as well:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/index.html

WinPatrol can give alerts about hijackings/malware attacks/critical changes that are made without permission:

http://www.winpatrol.com/

RootkitRevealer, which can be used to detect rootkits on your PC:

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/RootkitRevealer.html

Siteadvisor, which is used via IE or Firefox and can give info about web sites as you browse:

http://www.siteadvisor.com/

Noscript, an extension that provides extra protection for Firefox:

http://www.noscript.net/whats

And of course, there's Steve Gibson's website, where you can find some helpful utilities and test your firewall:

http://grc.com/default.htm
 
Thanks again Jon
D/L'd AVG free - nice! Already use Spybot and Ad-aware that are excellent progs in their own right. :)
 
Looks like he still maintains the site to this day. Good stuff!
 
I use Linux Mint so I don't have to worry about ANY of the above programs :)
 
Thanks for reminding me of this link, glad it's still kicking, I don't use any of the programs that were linked in my first post anymore but do use some that are in Nick's site.

From:

The Linux Lambada

:salut:
 
When I first started using WinX, my first impulse was to begin installing all my usual anti-virus, anti-malware stuff, so I started researching latest versions.

Many of the results I got back at the time indicated that "Windows Defender" (built in to WinX) was quite a robust protection suite, rated well by cybersecurity experts. For a while there I considered keeping it, plus running a bunch of other redundant stuff on top, but given my relatively modest desktop system, that didn't seem real smart.

Of course I also considered turning WD off entirely, and running all my favorite stuff instead, but that too seemed sort of a "why am I trying to reinvent the wheel if the experts are saying WD is actually quite good?" situation.

Kinda felt like Indy at that point...

 
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