Anti-spyware Programs

[landbeforetimelover]

The viruses by the freeware apps are harmless.  they just send reports of like browsing history and crap, but the only difference between firefox's virus and a hackers virus is the fact that the hacker uses it to get fake ID's and to do other illegal activity.  The programs are almost identical.

With spybot, you have to make sure you read what the thing is before you delete it.  It's that simple.

[landbeforetimelover]

Oh, and to make a backup of favorites, go into the C:\Documents and Settings\User\Favorites directory and backup all favorites.  They're only around 2k each.

[Littlefoot]

Good security cost money, but lose a valuable information is worse. There is good antivirus and anti-spywares that will help you very good and it not cost a lot. Panda Antivirus 2008 is one of them, is one of the best and trusted antivirus/antispyware in the market. At difference of Norton and Avast it doesn’t need to take a lot of resources to run, at difference of Norton that uses a lot of resources and makes your computer slow.

 Another good one is Zone Alarm, antivirus, firewall and antispyware all you need to have the best protection.
I tried AVG the paid version in the store and was a deception I have to give a refund to every person I sold it. The computers were contaminated so easily, was a nightmare. And don’t ask me for the free version. Nothing free works correctly there is no business on it.

I sell Panda in my store $39.00 one year of updates 2 licenses (you can install it in two PCs) If you see is not expensive at all. Zone Alarm is a bit expensive $43.00 but works great. I have reduced considerably the quantity of machines affected with virus.
There is other different antivirus in the market but I recommend one of those I use.

[landbeforetimelover]

I'll admit it.  AVG anti-spyware has really screwed up some of my computers and it is the second worst spyware program I've ever used.  The antivirus is awesome though so long as you remember to manually update it.  It's auto updates never work properly.

[Petrie.]

All these "post removed"'s can't be a good thing.


For anti-spyware I use four (count them four) freeware ones

Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Personal
Spybot Search and Destroy
AVG Anti-Spyware
a-squared anti spyware

Very rarely do any of these find anything.  I don't visit the sites that would install anything in the first place.  Yeah I know, if I paid for them, perhaps I'd get some results or even false positives to make it appear something is working, but also, it does largely depend on what sites you go to.  I stick away from shady ones, no torrents, and that's probably why this computer is clean.

[landbeforetimelover]

All these "post removed"'s can't be a good thing.

I dunno why she did that... :unsure:


To Petire:  Why don't you go into the CTRL+ALT+DEL menu and look at the processes tab.  How much cpu and ram is the "guard.exe" program taking up?  I'll bet it's a lot. -_-

[DarkHououmon]

All these "post removed"'s can't be a good thing.

I dunno why she did that... :unsure:
 

Because a friend of mine, who was reading the topic, made me feel guilty about them. ^^;

[Petrie.]

All these "post removed"'s can't be a good thing.

To Petire:  Why don't you go into the CTRL+ALT+DEL menu and look at the processes tab.  How much cpu and ram is the "guard.exe" program taking up?  I'll bet it's a lot. -_-

1.3 mb is a lot?  :

[landbeforetimelover]

Really?  When I used the free edition of AVGAS, It took up nearly 2.8ghz and 3gb ram :blink: It wasn't my computer cuz it was just formatted.  Maybe I downloaded a corrupted version or something. :huh: