Computer security

[Steve Chafer]

Am just about to renew my Norton subscription, though have heard of others like McAfee. which my employer uses.

I use Btinternet as my broadband provider who also have security , is this enough anyway? that apart whats the recieved wisdom of Norton V McAfee please?

Steve

 

[rees_A]

If u have McAfee on you work PC, you should be able to run it on home one as well if its used for work purposes. No cost upgrade....

 

[Spinal]

I know this is't you question, nor an answer to your qn... but have you ever tried NOD32.... Its a really great antivirus!
Michele

 

[tinkypot]

I rolled a full McAfee AV defense setup covering everything for the office (200+ users). Have never had a problem with it! It's a corporate version, but works very well on a home setup too. Not sure how much the home version is, but I'm sure there wont be a big difference between the two - McAfee makes both products (Norton and McAfee).

I personally hate Norton branded products as they seem to over complicate things in an effort to simplify. Plus they degrade the performance of the system its installed on.

Just my opinion.

Alex

 

[Shude]

I personally hate Norton branded products as they seem to over complicate things in an effort to simplify. Plus they degrade the performance of the system its installed on.

Just my opinion.

It is an opinion that is shared with many others

 

[PJH]

Am just about to renew my Norton subscription, .....
Steve

Why not just re-install and register under a different E-mail address ?

 

[wallingd]

Michele

Wot's NOD32 like compared to AVG 7?

And how free is it lol?

Ty.

 

[Ashley]

I know i have said it before but IMHO you can not beat AVG free edition for home use.

 

[blassberg]

I know i have said it before but IMHO you can not beat AVG free edition for home use.

I don't know if u can beat AVG free but am extremely pleased with it

 

[machasm]

You may find that just an antivirus package may not be enough.
Might I suggest the use of a firewall as well? Either in software or preferably a hardware firewall. Many ADSL modems can be setup such that they will inherintly provide very good protection when using NAT (Network Address Translation).
If this is too difficult for users to setup then at least use a personal firewall such as zonealarm etc. (BTW Windows XP SP2 now includes a built-in firewall).
Also avoid using M/S IE as this is targeted by a lot of spyware. Might I suggest using another web browser such as Mozilla's firefox. It is a great browser with a lot of nifty extras such as multiple tabs and in-built pop up blocker amongst others.
Last but not least, make sure your antivirus software is kept up to date.
Hope this helps.
Machasm.

 

[Ashley]

You may find that just an antivirus package may not be enough.
Might I suggest the use of a firewall as well? Either in software or preferably a hardware firewall. Many ADSL modems can be setup such that they will inherintly provide very good protection when using NAT (Network Address Translation).
If this is too difficult for users to setup then at least use a personal firewall such as zonealarm etc. (BTW Windows XP SP2 now includes a built-in firewall).
Also avoid using M/S IE as this is targeted by a lot of spyware. Might I suggest using another web browser such as Mozilla's firefox. It is a great browser with a lot of nifty extras such as multiple tabs and in-built pop up blocker amongst others.
Last but not least, make sure your antivirus software is kept up to date.
Hope this helps.
Machasm.

It had been on xp from the start but with sp2 it was more integrated to the os. I personally used zone alarm for a while and found it too bossy, MS windows firewall seems to work just fine (someone will correct me now, but lets be fair zone alarm will have had its faults too), I ended feeling Zonealarm was overkill.

I think I am one of the few left who actively prefer ms products to the alternates. IE also has popup blockers etc.

zooman

p.s that said i will download firefox and have a look

 

[Ashley]

OK the tabs are cool

 

[machasm]

It had been on xp from the start but with sp2 it was more integrated to the os.

I don't believe that to be the case
XP SP2
Note the second bullet point.

I am sure you will not be disappointed with firefox.

Mac.

 

[Ashley]

Right i want some rep now

2nd down middle column

Originally Posted by zooman
It had been on xp from the start but with sp2 it was more integrated to the os.

I think you will agree now I was right :bannana: :bannana:

Zooman

 

[Spinal]

Michele

Wot's NOD32 like compared to AVG 7?

And how free is it lol?

Ty.

NOD32 isn't free (sadly) but is (imo, that of most reviewers, and most people that tried it) way better than Norton.

QUOTE:
NOD32 not only did not miss any “In the Wild” virus, but its overall scanning rate was faster than any of its 14 competitors. This test has, as many tests before have, once again proven what Virus Bulletin said about NOD32 several years ago: “It is almost a truism in the antivirus world that you must choose between fast scanning speed and good virus detection. NOD32 bucks that idea by effectively coupling the two.”
/QUOTE

CNET rates it only 6.0 points, but all their users rate is an overall 9.1. (me'thinks they tested an older version...)

the latest nod prices are at NOD32.com (and if you ever played Tiberian Sun, how cool is a name like NOD? )

Michele

 

[anarchy-inc]

I know i have said it before but IMHO you can not beat AVG free edition for home use.

That is so true. I used to be a big fan of McAfee until they started releasing bloatware. I mean what happened after version 6? V6 was so slick and simple, but after that they started adding firewalls and pop-up blockers and the rest. Recently I had had to ditch it altogether as they no longer support virus database updates for V6. Now I'm on AVG.

 

[Benzowner]

The other imo most important thing to do is regularly scan your puter with whatever antivirus you end up using. It is all very well to let it sit in the background, but the little varmints can and sometimes do get through. Mine is scanned every week, and it still finds viruses every now and again

 

[tinkypot]

A little tip for you guys.

Quite a few malware/spyware programs are installed with Java. I have created a little batch file that deletes these files dead. I use it before and after an AV scan.

Also use Firefox or anything other than IE. And disable java/javascript/auto install features when not needed.

I use Ad-aware and McAfee AV 8, updating regularly, and these damn exploits still get through. Shows up when you do an Ad-ware scan. McAfee deletes them from your temp folder, but not the original source on the PC. So they are still there.

Open up notepad > copy and paste in below:

cd C:\Documents and Settings\change to your windows username \Application Data\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\javapi\v1.0\jar
del /q *.*

Save as Java_del.bat or whatever, but remember the .bat

This will delete all files within the Java cache.

Hope this helps... (as with all PC tips, this comes as is. It wont blow your pc up, but in case something goes wrong, I can not be held responsable)

Alex

 

[Shude]

I dumped AVG and switched to Trend Micro products (not free) when AVG failed to spot a fairly annoying virus that Trend shifted immediately.

www.antivirus.com