Security

CJ Cregg · Commodore Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 1254

What, if any, security do you have on your computer?

I have Zone alarm 6.5 Internet Suite, Ad aware scanner and Spybot

Birdy · Socialist Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Posts: 13502 Location: Here.

I've got AdAware, Spybot and Nod32. Works perfectly for me. Especially Spybot is a very good tool.

CJ Cregg · Commodore Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 1254

dont you have a firewall?

Captain Patrick · Commodore Joined: 06 Mar 2005 Posts: 2421

i have sypbot, Kaspersky Antivirus v 6.0, Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0

Republican_Man · **Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:51 pm**

AdAware, Spybot, Zone Alarm, AVG Free (Antivirus), Spy Sweeper, and SUPERAntiSpyware.

Defiant · **Sun Oct 01, 2006 4:56 pm**

I use Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D, and an expired subscription of Norton Antivirus. No firewall. So as long as you're careful and use Firefox you really don't need a firewall.

CJ Cregg · Commodore Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 1254

If you don't have a firewall, you are just asking to be attacked by hackers.

TrekkieMage · **Sun Oct 01, 2006 6:30 pm**

I have a Mac

However, I have my firewall active and customized.

And on the PCs at home I've installed ClamWin, AdAware, Spybot, and Spyware Blaster as well as customized the firewall. ^-^

PrankishSmart · **Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:04 am**

I use avg for anti virus and ewido for anti spyware.

I run a cisco 837 router and have completed CCNA and configured my firewall features... for home.

My philosophy on network security is to disable everything first, and then enable only what you need. This is a very good approach and a lot of firewalls are configured like this by default including ISA Server.

Another really good practice is to always make sure your computer is up to date and you can check this by going to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ .

Defiant · **Mon Oct 02, 2006 4:00 am**

Seven of Nine · **Mon Oct 02, 2006 4:54 am**

Security? Erm... I don't have a root account

Is that security? Oh, and I have a NAT router.

I think the best security I have is not using a kiddy's operating system.

TrekkieMage · **Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:50 pm**

Arellia · **Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:57 pm**

I'm another person with a mac.

I'm relatively certain I have a firewall, if I remember correctly... something to look into, since I'm not 100% sure. My windows machines (BLECH, windows) run AVG anti-virus. Free, unobtrusive (grrrrrrrrrr norton) and effective.

TrekkieMage · **Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:23 pm**

Yuck! I hate Norton. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth...I don't care how good the protection is, it's annoying as all get out!

As for your firewall - System Prefs, sharing, firewall. I think you have to activate it.

Arellia · **Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:29 pm**

Thanks Mage. Heh, yeah... I've had the worst experiences with Norton and McAffee. They ask too many questions. AVG just works, I don't babysit it.

lionhead · **Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:51 pm**

AVG free edition, Hitman Pro(uses all of the programs mentioned above in a row). I got the Windows Firewall.

TrekkieMage · **Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:11 pm**

Seven of Nine · **Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:08 am**

PrankishSmart · **Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:53 am**

^Thats sort of correct. It's because a lot of unknowledgable people setup their windows machine and use the Administrator account, but choose a very simple password such as password, in which case it is more secure to run no password thus disabling access to remote admin services and giving trojans a harder time.

TrekkieMage · **Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:03 pm**

Yea, my sister deleted a bunch of my mom's really important work files when she was a baby

And the guest account on XP, for some reason they decided that you can never really get rid of it.

And it's not as easy as hitting delete to get rid of things on a Mac, you've got to drag it to the trash can, which is a little more difficult for a small child to do.

squiggy · **Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:32 pm**

Heh... I'm running windows 98SE on my laptop which is atleast 80% of it's security((Laptop->NO ONE ELSE TOUCH BUT ME, 98SE is not compatible with alot of viruses designed to attack "new" computers)).
Then it's got spybot, adaware, zone alarm, and my favorite, System Mechanic 5((God bless spython

))

syd2002 · **Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:10 pm**

I found that spybot works but can also be very harmful for your system.

Beginner users often down know what there doing when they let spybot fool around with the registry.

PrankishSmart · **Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:37 am**

TrekkieMage · **Wed Oct 04, 2006 10:30 am**

It can be deleted on the surface. But the hole is still there. Basically the Guest account is an easy way in for hackers, and even if you "delete" the account you're not permanently removing it.

I don't have a source for that, but it came up over the summer when I was working on helping to write a new ciriculum for a 10th grade intro to IT Course. We did a ton of work on security.

WeAz · **Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:27 pm**

AVG Free Edition