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Old January 18th, 2005, 03:06 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Virus Protection

AVG Anti-Virus
Mozilla Firefox
Spywareblaster
Ad-aware
Windows Sp2

Is that good enough to keep my comp safe from all sorts of junk on the internet? I also have Norton 2005 but i dont know if i should put that in.
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Old January 18th, 2005, 03:15 PM     #2 (permalink)
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do you have a firewall other than the windows firewall? if not you need one.

as i understand it, spyware blaster only works with internet explorer...........( i may be out of date on that one).

don't run more than one firewall, they might interfere with each other...........

spybot; search and destroy and Ccleaner are useful apps too.
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Old January 18th, 2005, 03:16 PM     #3 (permalink)
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What's a good firewall? Says on their dl page it works with firefox too.
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Old January 18th, 2005, 03:18 PM     #4 (permalink)
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I am using Agnitum Outpost firewall. It is ok I think.
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Old January 18th, 2005, 03:24 PM     #5 (permalink)
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i like outpost...............used it when i had aol................no probs, very easy to set up.

zonealarm, tiny, kerio, sygate all have a free version of their firewalls .........be sure to turn off windows ICF if you install another firewall.

a lot of people here like AVG, i haven't tried it.
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Old January 18th, 2005, 03:46 PM     #6 (permalink)
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IMO, AVG's about as good as free anti-virus gets, and also Sygate is a very good free firewall.
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Old January 18th, 2005, 05:52 PM     #7 (permalink)
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I almost forgot i alwasy have nforce4 active armor. Is that anygood?
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Old January 18th, 2005, 06:47 PM     #8 (permalink)
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Well this is what i came up with

AVG
Firefox
Ad-Aware
Spyblaster
Sygate Firewall
Service Pack 2
Active Armor

Anything i should change?
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