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Lived Through the Heat Death
I have received some warnings from Norton too when I come to NMA, but just when i click a notification from the forum.
NMA has threatened my computer!!!
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Lived Through the Heat Death
Stg Granite
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Moving this to General Hardware.
Multidirectional
Mildly Dipped
Ccleaner is a good program for cleaning crap out of your system, but for registry specifically, Registry Mechanic is much better. Not free, however. I use them both, as Ccleaner finds something that Registry Mechanic doesn't and vice versa.
There is a brazilian developer with a registry toll, and it's free and in english(not engrish like many foreign developers);
http://www.velasco.com.br/mvregclean_en_informations.php
http://www.velasco.com.br/mvregclean_en_informations.php
Stg Granite
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@Danilh: Yeah, I thought about posting this, but I think CCleaner is a better option.
AVG wasn't bad for a long time. they had a good rep. but they kinda spoiled it for themself. bad detection, false positives & removing windows system files? lol.
Avast is what i use today, but then again, i'm a pretty safe kinda guy. my brain is my primary line of defense as a computer techie.
as for the virus detection on code you wrote yourself? it happens... false positives. but it's also possible that a virus nested itself in your code (however unlikely).
Avast is what i use today, but then again, i'm a pretty safe kinda guy. my brain is my primary line of defense as a computer techie.
as for the virus detection on code you wrote yourself? it happens... false positives. but it's also possible that a virus nested itself in your code (however unlikely).
Stg Granite
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I think that was directed to me.
No, you're wrong. Windows firewall doesn't, for example, allow one to set specific rules for each program that tries to access the internet or other programs, doesn't allow the user to freely configure ports, doesn't protect registry keys, doesn't warn about malicious sites or known malicious files, etc, etc, etc...iii said:
Stg Granite said:
It's good enough for the reason it was programmed.
It's debatable whether blocking outbound connections is really very useful (if you have malware trying to make outbound connections, then you have malware already). Vista's firewall is a pretty good firewall, though - it won't necessarily meet everyone's needs, but for home use I don't see the need to use anything else (and if you do need more, then you're probably looking for a hardware firewall anyway).
Btw. I used ZoneAlarm for a long time.
Every software firewall can be hacked easily if wanted.
Best insurance against the dangers of the WWW remains:
A) An active Brain
B) The use of a router
I'll ask Igor to fetch me one.
Stg Granite
Look, Ma! Two Heads!
Yeah, which doens't mean it's good enough.iii said:
I can't discuss about this cause I don't know Vista's firewall, but XP's is shitty. Period.iii said:
I'm not arguing about this. In this point you're right. But for home users, a (good) software firewall is enough.iii said:
Ok, so Panda - Cloud Antivirus. Free, lightweight and uses cloud system to do the work of classifying and scanning for new viruses.
Any opinions on this?
Stg Granite said:AVG is a shitty antivirus, which I'd never recommend to anyone. It just doesn't serve it's purpose! Aside of bugs, it's unable to delete or quarantine most of the viruses it finds... That is... WHEN it finds.
Also, wrong forum!
Thats sort of funny, because that is actually untrue, but fits 100% to free av. I don't think there is an anti-virus programm with more false alarms than free-av. Also, sometimes their database is outdated but can't update, once they even had a major breakdown for over a week and AVG had to cover for them. Anti-Virus wise AV misses a lot of things AVG detects, and no, these are not false detects. AVG gets better score (not that they count much) too. All in all it is pretty sure to say you should stay with AVG or buy kaspersky/nod32 (superior to AVG). regarding your problem I'd say you have catched something elsewhere but it just triggered.
Stg Granite said:
Uh, oh more BS. The rules of the Windows Firewall are specific enough. Programs that allow more specific behaviour may exist, but securitywise this does not provide more security, quiet the opposit actually. ports can be freely configured with windows firewall. Dunno where you get your informations but you should check your sources. Protecting registry keys or warning about malicious sites/files has nothing to do with a firewall. A firewall is a port/packet scanner. If it provides services against sites/files it is not a firewall, but some sort of mixture anti virus program. Which is actually rather bad, since such a service needs to be updated pretty often. Which most "firewall"-companys fail to deliever. This leads to false security, something rather dangerous.
Windows Firewall is a nice feature, but to be on the save site you should have:
1.) router, best if you configure it in detail
2.) updates, updates, updates. Especially Microsoft/Browser-Updates (+ PDF/office if you work a lot with those)
3.) your computer, regarding services, should also be configured in detail
Bear in mind that viruses/worms and every other harmful software have dramatically changed in the past years (~3). Anti-Virus software is less and less effective (dropped from 70% to 30% average efficteness, only exception is nod, which still has around 60%). For this reason one should not rely on "firewalls" or anti-virus softwares. Alternative software and a system which is configured perfect are far more important.
Stg Granite said:
To be on the save side: this is absolut bullshit and couldn't be more wrong. A software firewall offers almost no protection. Saying something like this leads to false security. A software firewall is never enough. It protects you against kiddy-scripts and some idiot viruses, but the most harmful worms and viruses, you know the ones that cause the most damage/control the botnets, bypass this "measure" without any problem and without any warning. The user things "oh I'm fine" while his computer sends spam or worse is part of a botnet and ddos some company. nicely done. It save to say that a software firewall is only useful at vulnerable spots like internet cafes, airports and hotels and even there they provide minimal security and are absolutely useless if the user knows jack about them.
Statements like "a software firewall is enough" are responsible for milions of zombie computers. "conficker? how did this happen? I had zonealarm!". Everytime I hear this I want to just destroy the users computer and forbid him to use one in the future. So please stop supporting this bs and get your facts straight.
Stg Granite
Look, Ma! Two Heads!
Yeah, whatever. My discordant personality's gone. For now. 
Don't know. Souns good, though. The concept, at least. Have you tried it?
KQX said:
Ok, so Panda - Cloud Antivirus. Free, lightweight and uses cloud system to do the work of classifying and scanning for new viruses.
Any opinions on this?
Don't know. Souns good, though. The concept, at least. Have you tried it?
Stg Granite
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I can't, sir. My 56kbit dial-up connection doesn't let me. 
So AVG is discontinuing 7.5 and the next version apparently doesn't work in Windows <s>95</s> 98. What's the recommended free alternative if I want something for W98 that doesn't take too much system resources? Avast? Avira? Avocado?
Per,
I would recommend Avast. It does support 98. Only question is, how much RAM do you have? I run XP with Athlon AMD 63 3400+ cpu and 1 gig RAM. I have no problems whatsoever. I think you might find it too resource-heavy only if you are running 256 MB RAM. Even half a gig should do you fine.
Misteryo
I would recommend Avast. It does support 98. Only question is, how much RAM do you have? I run XP with Athlon AMD 63 3400+ cpu and 1 gig RAM. I have no problems whatsoever. I think you might find it too resource-heavy only if you are running 256 MB RAM. Even half a gig should do you fine.
Misteryo