Question for fellow geeks.

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Dennis Barbier

I'm curious as to what other people are using for Spyware / Virus solution.

Myself, I've worked with just about everything. I try to stay away from
anything made by Symantec, unless its a corporate version. But most
people at home with a single PC arent interested in that.

Ive tried PC-CIllin 2005 and really liked it - very light on resources,
fast, decent interface (a few issues), not as "AOL-ish" as symantec is
getting.

McAfee I find about the same, but leaning a little to close to Norton
with its silly fancy graphics, sounds + animations.

A few days ago on a seperate PC i thought id try a bit of an experiment,
I'm going entirely free.

Im using the combination of Kerio Personal Firewall, Adaware and FreeAV
for Antivirus. I'm pretty impressed so far considering the price but its
only been about a week.

Well hope to get a good discussiong going here.

Cheers,
Dennis
 
Dennis said:
I'm curious as to what other people are using for Spyware / Virus
solution.
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Personally I use Virtual PC or Linux for surfing to unknown sites. For
customers I recommend their antivirus of choice (they all work good enough),
Windows firewall, and scan once week with Adaware and Spybot. If they
practice reasonably safe Internet habits I don't see them back. If they have
kids all bets are off. With some kids it doesn't matter what you do they
will turn it off. In those cases I recommend they get a separate computer
and have the kids maintain their own computer.

Kerry
 
I rely more on safe and smart practices whenever I'm on the internet, rather
than software solutions. The software is there as a backstop, in case
something gets by in spite of my efforts. In 12 years of personal computing
I have never been infected by any kind of virus or malware.

I use and like Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite, which combines firewall,
antivirus and anti-spyware protection, in addition to a host of other
features I find valuable. But so what - plenty of people hate Zone Alarm
with a passion. To each their own. I also have a basic so-called NAT router
(D-Link DI-604).

As a second layer of defense againt malware, I have Spy Sweeper and Spybot
S&D, which I use for manual scans on a regular basis. Also RootKit Revealer.
And, of course, I have a comprehensive backup strategy that employs Norton
Ghost 10 (which plenty of people also hate) and Backup4all.

However, I am not a geek. Perhaps I am a novice geek - a squeak.
 
Ted said:
I rely more on safe and smart practices whenever I'm on the internet, rather
than software solutions. The software is there as a backstop, in case
something gets by in spite of my efforts. In 12 years of personal computing
I have never been infected by any kind of virus or malware.

I use and like Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite, which combines firewall,
antivirus and anti-spyware protection, in addition to a host of other
features I find valuable. But so what - plenty of people hate Zone Alarm
with a passion. To each their own. I also have a basic so-called NAT router
(D-Link DI-604).

As a second layer of defense againt malware, I have Spy Sweeper and Spybot
S&D, which I use for manual scans on a regular basis. Also RootKit Revealer.
And, of course, I have a comprehensive backup strategy that employs Norton
Ghost 10 (which plenty of people also hate) and Backup4all.

However, I am not a geek. Perhaps I am a novice geek - a squeak.
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you're almost a geek. just dump the term "personal computing" and avoid
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