Suprash Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Guys, I know you guys have posted about this sort of stuff before but my McCafe (I know thats not right, look at the time, Im excused...) has expired, dont think I rate it. Not sure where a spy doctor programme came from but it alerted me the other day to 30 odd spywares that it deleted. Anyone can someone please reccomend something good, that work, that isnt time consuming, dont want a lot do I...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suprash Posted May 16, 2007 Author Share Posted May 16, 2007 And free if you can....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupraStormRising Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Avast it's free and one of the best just search Avast in google. You register and get a 14month key for free. Brilliant Anti-Virus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fifty Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 AVG is free get it at http://www.grisoft.com many have used it for a long time, me included! Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupraStormRising Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 AVG is free get it at http://www.grisoft.com many have used it for a long time, me included! Rich I used to use AVG but 7.5 has issues AVAST in the development comunity seems to be the one to use. Oh and Happy Birthday Fifty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Linux But yes, used AVG for years, excellent and never had any problems with it on multiple machines, yes even 7.5. I can't say the same for avast but that's also ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 I give AVG to people who don't want to pay and NOD32 to everyone else. I tried Avast for a while but it's no good because it expires after 60-something days and needs re-activating, which is still F.O.C but I tend to find people forget to do it and it stops working. (that's anti-malware, i.e. antivirus, spyware, popupware etc.) as for firewall, XP has a good enough software one built-in, and hardware wise using a router instead of a modem is better as they automatically act as inbound firewalls and can be configured as outbound firewalls too if needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 as for firewall, XP has a good enough software one built-in, and hardware wise using a router instead of a modem is better as they automatically act as inbound firewalls and can be configured as outbound firewalls too if needed. Carlos speaks good info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz6002 Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 AVG is pretty cool. Doesn't have a lot of features but then it's free. It does exactly what it says on the tin. As Carlos mentioned you can't really do much better than a hardware firewall to stop pesky hackers and the like. But then I agree with Thorin - get a Linux platform Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 OS X just kidding, but AVG does seem to do the job (that's what i installed on my parent's computers) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan999 Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 I read a mag afew weeks back that tested afew and Kerpaski ( sp? ) came out the best but think its about £25 or so. I have never used it though so may be best to go with tryed and tested! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 AGV for virus checker Sunbelt kerio personal firewall for your firewall needs. Excellent free firewall program Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Avast it's free and one of the best just search Avast in google. You register and get a 14month key for free. Brilliant Anti-Virus Yup Avast here as well.. Ash, For a firewall, get a small pc and go something like IPCop, next time you are in the area poke your head in and I'll show you my config. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 OS X Pfftt, yeah if you wanna be a sheep and follow the latest fad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konrad Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&sspagename=STRK%3AMERFB%3AIID&viewitem=&item=160097261710&rd=1&rd=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 I read a mag afew weeks back that tested afew and Kerpaski ( sp? ) came out the best but think its about £25 or so. I have never used it though so may be best to go with tryed and tested! Kaspersky used to be regarded as awesome, but then it got fat and bloated like Norton. I haven't looked at it since so maybe it's become light and efficient again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&sspagename=STRK%3AMERFB%3AIID&viewitem=&item=160097261710&rd=1&rd=1 I had a company try to sell me this idea (for lots of money I might add), and I couldn't get him to just tell me what it was, rather than how good it is. I can only guess that it's an imaging system like TrueImage/Ghost, but running from ROM on that card. Presume it stores the images in a HPA area of the disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 I had a company try to sell me this idea (for lots of money I might add), and I couldn't get him to just tell me what it was, rather than how good it is. I can only guess that it's an imaging system like TrueImage/Ghost, but running from ROM on that card. Presume it stores the images in a HPA area of the disk. Hmmmmmm, I saw one of those a while ago, and they looked interesting... but could possibly be snake-oil.. especially at the price.. EDIT http://www.cablesonline.com/resydareca.html By all accounts it provides some sort of multiboot system and network access. Might have to get one just to see what it does.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Hmmmmmm, I saw one of those a while ago, and they looked interesting... but could possibly be snake-oil.. especially at the price.. EDIT http://www.cablesonline.com/resydareca.html By all accounts it provides some sort of multiboot system and network access. Might have to get one just to see what it does.. Thanks for the links. 'tis interesting. All that I can see on that card is an ATMEL-type 24cxx eeprom, another rom chip, and what is apparently a Winbond Ethernet chip, which seems odd because the instructions say to obtain the DOS network packet driver for your own network card in order to do the network stuff Interesting but I just can't see it being effective otherwise the likes of MSI or Gigabyte (who like to put spare ROM chips on their motherboard for fun) would have integrated it into the motherboards. Unless it's patented Still not sure where it stores the modified/unmodified data either. Might have to get one too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Oh yeah, and it's certainly not what I'd call effective against viruses and other malware, since the viruses could go undetected until much later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Thanks for the links. 'tis interesting. All that I can see on that card is an ATMEL-type 24cxx eeprom, another rom chip, and what is apparently a Winbond Ethernet chip, which seems odd because the instructions say to obtain the DOS network packet driver for your own network card in order to do the network stuff Interesting but I just can't see it being effective otherwise the likes of MSI or Gigabyte (who like to put spare ROM chips on their motherboard for fun) would have integrated it into the motherboards. Unless it's patented Still not sure where it stores the modified/unmodified data either. Might have to get one too Yeah, agreed with the above... Doesn't seem to have enough components to do anything REALLY useful, and yeah BIOS manufacturers would have put these features in if they were any good.. .....BUT for the price of it, MIGHT be worth ago.. Don't think the tech is patented because there are plenty of cards of this type if you search the net. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Oh yeah, and it's certainly not what I'd call effective against viruses and other malware, since the viruses could go undetected until much later. See if you follow me with this logic... It requires a driver to be loaded and seems to allocate 2G of diskspace for this file recovery system. This sounds very much like shadow copying sort of stuff anyway. The multiboot is just a bios extention which you can do with software ANYWAY. If you want network restore and stuff, will most mb network ports these days support Lan boot.... so BOOTP,TFTP virtual machine with say WinPE and ghost32... JOB DONE...fire up the VM when ever needed. Think I've just talked myself out of even trying it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 See if you follow me with this logic... It requires a driver to be loaded and seems to allocate 2G of diskspace for this file recovery system. This sounds very much like shadow copying sort of stuff anyway. The multiboot is just a bios extention which you can do with software ANYWAY. If you want network restore and stuff, will most mb network ports these days support Lan boot.... so BOOTP,TFTP virtual machine with say WinPE and ghost32... JOB DONE...fire up the VM when ever needed. Think I've just talked myself out of even trying it. Ah, I missed the 2gb bit, and you're right, they pretty much all support PXE boot. There are loads of ways you could restore over a network (not that I've tried). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIL Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Dont discount McAfee, I know it can be a little bulky and sometimes will slow the machine while it scans.......this is because its actually doing something (unlike some programs that fool you into thinking they are doing something)!! If you are looking for really useful free stuff add SiteAdvisor to your machine, runs independantly of the AV and pre-warns you of bad sites, phishing sites, spam sites etc http://www.siteadvisor.com/ Equally we also provide a great bit of home kit from GSEC1 that comprehensively covers you from lots of vectors of attack take a look at http://www.xgate.com/ Really cheap and a must if you have kids who use the internet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Dont discount McAfee, I know it can be a little bulky and sometimes will slow the machine while it scans.......this is because its actually doing something (unlike some programs that fool you into thinking they are doing something)!! Remind me who you work for again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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