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Walterius
I like to play at building various W2K systems around a core of one WME
system and one permanent W2k system. At the moment I have four W2K systems
and the WME system.
For security purposes, and to avoid endless updating and running of security
programs, I allow only one of the main W2K system access to the Internet. It
has a full complement of security tools: AVG, MSAS, SpyBot, Spyware Blaster,
Spyware Guard, Ad-Aware, and others that are more or less stealthy or only
run now and again (e.g. Hijack This, DCOMBobulateMe, etc.). I keep
everything up to date (every other day at least) and run them when updated
or when a day or two has elapsed.
I also visit only a few websites, noted for their safety, such as Wired.com,
NoNags Plus, DOMAI.com, and a few MSFT sites.
And I use EmpTemp, MRUBlaster, and CCleaner to keep my temporary files and
cookies near zero. I also use FireFox, which seems not only superior to but
safer than IE6 SP1.
My question is this: by having only one pgm with access to the Net, but only
one set of security pgms, am I at risk? Should I have five sets, update all
five daily, and run them as often as possible? Or am I reasonably safe the
way I am?
I have been running this way for several years, and only occasionally find
maybe one nasty, usually just minor spyware, and never any viruses or zombie
pgms, etc.
I feel safe. But is there a safer way?
Please also note that I have 56K dialup, which never exceeds 53K, and that
updating four or five sets of security pgms would be nigh impossible.
Happily, I am getting DSL Lite, which claims 256K, so things should loosen
up a bit.
I apologize for being long-winded, but this has been on my mind for a couple
of years.
Walterius
system and one permanent W2k system. At the moment I have four W2K systems
and the WME system.
For security purposes, and to avoid endless updating and running of security
programs, I allow only one of the main W2K system access to the Internet. It
has a full complement of security tools: AVG, MSAS, SpyBot, Spyware Blaster,
Spyware Guard, Ad-Aware, and others that are more or less stealthy or only
run now and again (e.g. Hijack This, DCOMBobulateMe, etc.). I keep
everything up to date (every other day at least) and run them when updated
or when a day or two has elapsed.
I also visit only a few websites, noted for their safety, such as Wired.com,
NoNags Plus, DOMAI.com, and a few MSFT sites.
And I use EmpTemp, MRUBlaster, and CCleaner to keep my temporary files and
cookies near zero. I also use FireFox, which seems not only superior to but
safer than IE6 SP1.
My question is this: by having only one pgm with access to the Net, but only
one set of security pgms, am I at risk? Should I have five sets, update all
five daily, and run them as often as possible? Or am I reasonably safe the
way I am?
I have been running this way for several years, and only occasionally find
maybe one nasty, usually just minor spyware, and never any viruses or zombie
pgms, etc.
I feel safe. But is there a safer way?
Please also note that I have 56K dialup, which never exceeds 53K, and that
updating four or five sets of security pgms would be nigh impossible.
Happily, I am getting DSL Lite, which claims 256K, so things should loosen
up a bit.
I apologize for being long-winded, but this has been on my mind for a couple
of years.
Walterius
