Are you protected?

[Steve Randles]

Please do not comment on contraceptive issues here, rather, on how you prevent malicious attacks on your comp.Which progs do you need to run or do run? Which do not conflict with each other and possibly by default, restrict your surfing expierience?..and all connected with it...Your info here could stop someones hard/drive smoking..

[phonebush]

Steve,

Good Idea, I use SPF 50 sunscreen since my bouts with skin cancer. My personal pc is now bald and smoking. Dr. insists I wear a hat that covers my ears. He believe it is my hard drive.

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[chesters1]

i use the nortons personal firewall and ofcourse nortons antivirus ,seems to work although the firewall has a few quirks such a not being able to view images on some sites and best installed in safe mode

[Newt]

I agree /w chesters1 and use the same AV program and firewall - even though my router/switch for my home network has a built in firewall. I like to run both.

 

The latest version of the Norton AV program has another feature I really like - it scans email as I am sending it so just in case I have gotten a bug, no one else will get it and I will quickly find out I'm infected.

 

To add on a little, I also like Ad-aware from http://www.lavasoft.nu/downloads.html to remove any spyware that has gotten loaded since AV programs won't detect most of them - as they are not viruses. Free program. And in case you already have it, get the update to version 5.8 which was issued April 29. Major added features including a block for the nasty piece of scumware (mpeg handler of some sort) that will remove your ad-aware program (silently too) if it is not running.

 

And while it is not strictly a protection issue, I HATE pop-up advertising and use Pop-up Stopper from www.panicware.com to block them. Also free.