Virus Protection (for my computer!)

norm

imalive wrote:

Hey, dude.... I just sent you an email with an attachment. Don't worry... it's OK.... go ahead and open it.

i delete ALL emails from giants fans

lalalalaaaaaaaa

AmentsChick wrote:

After checking reviews from you guys and cnet.com I think I have decided to go with AVG (I didn't like the 'music player' theme of Avast).

Does Windows Defender come with my OS (Vista Home Premium)? I think I've seen something like that.

Been using AVG for years, and it's still great imo.

Windows Defender has to be installed. It doesn't come with your computer:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx

PatrickBateman

imalive wrote:

Or, you could just buy a MAC!

I am a PC (standing in front of my drumset)

AmentsChick

Saturnal wrote:

Been using AVG for years, and it's still great imo.

Windows Defender has to be installed. It doesn't come with your computer:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx

Hmm...I just did a search on my lappy, and I have it! I wonder if it's a free trial or something?

AmentsChick

Also, I have another question regarding "Spybot search and destroy". I installed it and when I went to do an update it didn't just do it automatically. It gave me a list of sites to update from??? HELP!! I'm not familiar with that at all!

PatrickBateman

doesnt really matter unless you get bad checksum errors, then just choose another download site

RolandTD20Kdrummer

AVG free has built in realtime antispyware protection, an email scanner, and a URL scanner which integrates with your browser to detect malicious sites.

edit download latest version here: http://www.download.com/AVG-Anti-Virus-Free-Edition/3000-2239_4-10320142.html?part=dl-AVGAntiVir&subj=dl&tag=button

duggro

AmentsChick wrote:

Ok...I didn't understand a single word of this post. :eek:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Keep-your-Notebook-Secure-With-Yoggie-039-s-Gatekeeper-Card-84112.shtml

AmentsChick

duggro wrote:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Keep-your-Notebook-Secure-With-Yoggie-039-s-Gatekeeper-Card-84112.shtml

That wasn't any better.

dawng

AmentsChick wrote:

That wasn't any better.

It's like a physical firewall. Most personal computers have no firewall at all, or occasionally a program installed on your computer that checks things as they arrive.

Rather than having software on your computer that checks after it arrives, this little card receives all the information which then checks the info BEFORE it ever gets to your computer.

Pretty cool A bit spendy for a personal user (my opinion) but would be great for traveling business folks that insist on connecting to unsecured wireless networks.

brain of c

AmentsChick wrote:

Hmm...I just did a search on my lappy, and I have it! I wonder if it's a free trial or something?

it comes with vista, not a trial.

AmentsChick

brain of c wrote:

it comes with vista, not a trial.

Awesome. Thanks! That makes sense!

AmentsChick

*dawn* wrote:

It's like a physical firewall. Most personal computers have no firewall at all, or occasionally a program installed on your computer that checks things as they arrive.

Rather than having software on your computer that checks after it arrives, this little card receives all the information which then checks the info BEFORE it ever gets to your computer.

Pretty cool A bit spendy for a personal user (my opinion) but would be great for traveling business folks that insist on connecting to unsecured wireless networks.

That's awesome! Thank you for the info and translating it nicely. I don't think it's geeky at all! I wish I knew as much as all yous computer savvy people!

Brisk.

Norton and Mcafee are dire - they eat your memory and actually arn't the best firewall.

I dont pay for any of my software becuase im poor so i just pirate all of it and it works fine. But there are many good AV + Firewall out there. NOD32, Outpost, i think Panda security centre is meant to be good. Oh and Kaspersky is good too.

PatrickBateman

http://www.geocities.com/alreaud/Humor/Page1_IMG/Howtostopcomputerviruses.jpg

AmentsChick

PatrickBateman wrote:

http://www.geocities.com/alreaud/Humor/Page1_IMG/Howtostopcomputerviruses.jpg

hahahaha...that works too