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Old August 19th, 2010 #1
Fred
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Default Computer protection. What should a person use?

Currently I have no virus or computer protection. I do use Windows defender and run Windows XP.

Am I OK?

Do I need:
virus protection?
spyware stuff?
A better friewall?

I stopped using virus protection because it seemd usless. It would detect a virus ok but the system would already be infected.

I tried Spyware once but it locked up my PC after doeing a cleaning.

It also seemd like the protection software would slow down my PC.



Any sugestions? Anyone?

Last edited by Fred; August 19th, 2010 at 02:25 PM.
 
Old August 19th, 2010 #2
Thomas de Aynesworth
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Try BitDefender, you can get a free trial and see how it works, and when you're ready to buy, you get full 2 years for the price of 1 through any other AV provider.
 
Old August 19th, 2010 #4
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Malwarebytes. It's free, and I've had it catch and fix things that other programs didn't.
 
Old August 19th, 2010 #5
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download microsoft security essentials. it's free and it works better than any anti virus software i've ever used.

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
 
Old August 20th, 2010 #6
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Thanks Everyone.

I guess you all mean that running just Defender is not OK. I loaded the essentials and it seemed to find quit a bit of bad stuff.
 
Old August 21st, 2010 #7
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Quote:
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Thanks Everyone.

I guess you all mean that running just Defender is not OK. I loaded the essentials and it seemed to find quit a bit of bad stuff.
awesome! glad that worked for you and you're able to clean your computer up.
 
Old August 21st, 2010 #8
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Ben, I was using a trial version of the Kapersky Antivirus which was about to expire in like 5 days or so. I took your advice, uninstalled it and am now using MSEssentials. It's working ok but I still think Kaspersky is the best antivirus.
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Old August 23rd, 2010 #9
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http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/

Uncheck the run at boot option in settings,or just uninstall it after you're done.
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Old February 22nd, 2011 #10
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how about privateproxy or go trusted is it worth using them?
 
Old November 14th, 2011 #11
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I'd go for AVG. I tried malwarebytes but it was a bit too tight with its security measures. Once I had it scan my PC and it removed some Yahoo messenger files. Had to reinstall it all over again.
 
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