What security software do you use?

crash013

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I use:

• Kaspersky Anti Virus Personal (best AV I've ever used)

• Sygate Personal Firewall Pro

• SpywareBlaster (passive, doesn't need to be running)

• Spybot Search & Destroy

• ProcessGuard (this is awesome, everyone should have it)

I used to use Ad-Aware, but after they sold out to that spyware company When.U, I just don't trust them anymore.

Oh and I use Firefox too, filters out a lot of the crap you can get from sites (compared to IE).

 

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I use AntiVir, SP2 firewall, SpywareBlaster, Microsoft Anti-Spyware, Ad-aware, Spybot S&D. I also use Opera as my browser.

 

Paul1

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Hardware firewall, zonealarm and popupcop.

 

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crash013

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You don't use anything for viruses/spyware/adware/trojans?

 

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router firewall, kaspersky antivirus and mozilla. 95% of the trouble saved

 

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crash013

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Haha yeah. I've been spyware/adware/virus free for months now.

 

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I've been using Outpost firewall for a while and I like it. It offers a lot of options and is free.

I did ditch adaware and Microsoft Anti-spyware. But I use spybot once a while.

I also have Norton AV Corp.

 

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BrutalDrew

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I also forgot to add my router which acts as a hardware firewall.

 

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Hardware firewall & Zone Alarm Security Suite.

 

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crash013

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How is Zone Alarm? I tried it about 1.5 years ago and never tried it again.

 

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BrutalDrew

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crash013 said:

How is Zone Alarm? I tried it about 1.5 years ago and never tried it again.

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I never liked the firewall. Never tried the suite though and don't really want to. I also see no need to have a software firewall other then the SP2 firewall.

 

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Firewall is pretty good the antivirus I wouldnt use. I have it and use the free avg over it Then again I would pick avg over anything besides panda so I geuss that is not saying much. I use bazooka,adware,ms anti spyware,za,avg,spyware blaster, spybot search and destroy.

 

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Hardware firewall, AVG pro and Firefox.

Hardware firewalls with stateful packet inspection are vastly superior to software firewalls in every way.

Use Firefox and forget about ever having spy/adware.

 

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BrutalDrew

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Use Firefox and forget about ever having spy/adware.

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Or Opera

I think FF is a great browser, but Opera is better IMO.

 

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BrutalDrew said:

Or Opera

I think FF is a great browser, but Opera is better IMO.

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Right. Anything other than IE for now; we'll see what IE7 holds. I notice that Opera is now a free browser; I'll have to download it and give it a whirl. The one thing that prevented me from doing so in the past was the fact that they charged for it.

 

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Opera has always been free AFAIK. You just have to pay to get rid of the ad at the top.

 

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Opera has always been free AFAIK. You just have to pay to get rid of the ad at the top.

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Ah, so it's still adware, then. I knew there must be a catch...Funny how they only mention it in the fine print.

 

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Wouldn't configuring a hardware firewall be a real bit*h? I'm not really experienced with hardware firewalls (even though I have a router with it ). How would it restrict access of say your browser if it were hijacked by some spyware or virus?

 

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crash013 said:

Wouldn't configuring a hardware firewall be a real bit*h? I'm not really experienced with hardware firewalls (even though I have a router with it ). How would it restrict access of say your browser if it were hijacked by some spyware or virus?

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Configuring a hardware firewall is actually very easy. If you configured your router, you can handle it. For that matter, if your router has a firewall with stateful packet inspection, you're already protected and any software firewall is entirely superfluous.

A drastically simplfied explanation of the pupose of a hardware firewall is that it "hides" your computer from the internet. Only those ips you explicitly request will be allowed to communicate; to all others, you don't exist.

Hardware firewalls do not prevent "hijacking" or viruses. The best insurance against spyware/hijacking is to not use Internet Explorer and the best insurance against viruses is to use smart email/web practices and run a good anti-virus client, such as AVG.

 

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Thanks for the info.