Virus Protection Problem?

[gruber2]

I currently added Spybot S & D, Disk Clean-up, SpywareBlaster, Ad Aware SE
Personal, CW Shredder, Buffalo Air Station Router, wired, using
Mozilla-Firefox system for browser and Zone Alarm Pro!! I run them all and
re-check for problems and some say I.m clear and Xoft spy says I've got
everykind of intrusion you can imagine, So buy their software and they will
clear it up? Always shows same problems on re-runs, (3 day old fish?)
Thanks for any help,
Candyman

 

[Shane]

Go here and scroll down to XoftSpy:
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm
Then get rid of the piece of crap.


Shane

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I currently added Spybot S & D, Disk Clean-up, SpywareBlaster, Ad Aware SE
Personal, CW Shredder, Buffalo Air Station Router, wired, using
Mozilla-Firefox system for browser and Zone Alarm Pro!! I run them all and
re-check for problems and some say I.m clear and Xoft spy says I've got
everykind of intrusion you can imagine, So buy their software and they
will
clear it up? Always shows same problems on re-runs, (3 day old fish?)

http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm

Look at the last item in their list. That application is crap.

XoftSpy -- aggressive, deceptive advertising (1, 2, 3); questionable license
terms; false positives work as goad to purchase (1, 2, 3, 4); exploits name
"spybot"

 

[NoNoBadDog!]

Simply buy Norton Personal Firewall. It is the best on the market..and yes,
it is better than ZoneAlarm (for all the ZA fans out there, test results
validate that NPF blocks more than ZA).

Bobby

 

[Alex Nichol]

Simply buy Norton Personal Firewall. It is the best on the market..and yes,
it is better than ZoneAlarm (for all the ZA fans out there, test results
validate that NPF blocks more than ZA).

And who knows what else. I have got to the point that nothing from
Symantec is allowed near any machine I have dealings with

ZA is quite adequate - and has the merit of being Free (I have not
really seen benefit from the Pro, pay for version)

 

[R. McCarty]

Just to add a different take on Firewalls & Security software.

Symantec can still be an acceptable choice. However, before blindly
locking step with Norton, investigate other vendors. My only caveat
is that I still cannot use and recommend McAfee. After their recent
email debacle, you still have to watch out for McAfee and it's frequent
over zealous actions. Symantec has their problems as well, updates
and re-installs can cause Registry problems. Norton also has a big
problem with memory usage. Nis is still running 7-8 processes and
taking up 35+ Megabytes of memory.

Everyone has a personal preference. I used to work in a company
that used McAfee. It destroyed more desktop setups than viruses.
So even today if they offered me a Free copy, I'd have to think real
hard before installing it on my main system. At least they had the sense
to drop the company name Network Associates and go back to being
just "McAfee".

Zone Alarm free is fine. The only downfall with it is most users aren't
too savvy with what to Allow or Block. So if you set it up go ahead
and trigger most of the common access programs and define the actions.
I've had to spend time with users helping them to adjust their program
actions when things get blocked that shouldn't be. For some reason
whenever the action box appears, people tend to block everything.

That's where Norton Firewall is a better choice. It's internal table of
"AutoConfigured" programs and services makes it easy on the user.
So I can both recommend Symantec and kick them in the pants in the
same posting.