Re: Am I Safe?

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That's the basics and should be fine for most providing you keep updated. Do
you have a router? That is another level of protection that you should have
especially if you are online 24/7

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Xandros


"John R" <tooh@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:41n%i.3$ip1.1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Running MS XP Home Edition with MS Firewall, Avast Anti-virus, Spyware
Blaster and Ad-Aware SE. Is this enough for good security? I recently went
to MS Firewall rather than ZoneAlarm because boot time was very long with
ZoneAlarm.



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