Re: How much protection?
- From: "C.Joseph S. Drayton" <csdcs@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 15 Mar 2008 03:21:31 GMT
PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
(Please don't use/add carats [ > ] for punctuation.)
Currently on my system I have Windows Firewall, AVG (free edition
7.5), S*perAntiSpyware (free version 3.9), Spybot S&D (free version
1.5), Ad-Aware 2007 (free edition), Spyware Blaster (free edition
4.0), Windows Defender and Windows Malicious Software Tool.
Of all those applications, only AVG is an anti-virus application, and
the Malicious Software Removal Tool is not an installed application
nor does it provide any real-time protection.
Some would consider the real-time protections afforded by SAS,
Ad-Aware 2007, Spybot, and Defender to be overkill. I'm one of them,
but YMMV. If it were my machine (and your browsing habits were as
safe as mine), I'd uninstall SAS, Ad-Aware, and Spybot...and replace
AVG with something more reliable and robust. Again, YMMV. One size
does not necessarily fit all here.
This is what's really important:
Before You Connect a New Computer to the Internet
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/before_you_plug_in.html
Also see:
Security FAQ & Checklist
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/8463
Hi Pa Bear,
The the concept of 'safe wex' is one that I find amusing. Any site can
be compromised. Second, if you are going to really make use of all the
information on the web then you end up going to sites that may not have
as much security as others. I tend to go to links that I see in news
groups on a regular basis. I download files from sites other than PCMAG
and CNET.
That might be considered 'unsafe wex', but in the process of going to
all those different sites, I have found some good tech files and
programs. When I am going to places I feel uncomfortable with, I turn
on Returnils protection mode. Other times I don't bother.
Their are a large number of scanners out there, so I scan my machine
regularly and if it finds something I have it delete it. For me I am
not going to limit my access to the Internet based on a white-list of
'supposedly safe' web sites.
--
Sincerely,
C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T
CSD Computer Services
Web site: http://csdcs.tlerma.com/
E-mail: csdcs@xxxxxxxxxx
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