Free Window's Security Software! :- ) *UPDATED*

Question to rav009

First I want to thank you for all your information you provided but you wrote (you shouldnt have two real time protection clients for spyware/viruses ot anything running) now I have Norton system works and Microsoft antispyware & Ewido anti-malware at the same time so can you please tell me what should I get rid of to me I find all of them are useful and by the way I have Zonealarm firewall too.

Please rav009 let me know what is the best solution in which to keep.

Thank you very much

 

Simple solution, all you have to do is unistall Ewido's sheild by staring up ewido and on the status pad, choose "remove shiled".

Theres no need for it realy if you have the following running, you can just scan with Ewido whenever you need it, no need for real time with it.

Hope that answers your qeustion Krazymale, an thanks for the praise, all appricated =D, another pc securing guide is under constrution btw

 

rav009 you are the star thank you very much again you are very kind.

What I just did is I uninstalled the microsoft antispyware because Ewido Is rgeistered and fully licnsed as you said its the best and it dose all the job rather than microsoft antispyware.

I can always have the microsoft anti spyware whenever I need to.

Where you from rav009?

 

Yeh Ewido is excelent, you could keep ms anti spyware, just make sure it doesnt run in real time.

Just change the start up bu going start>run>msconfig, click the start up tab and un select ms anti spyware, it should be somthing like gcasServ.

Glad i could help.

 

Following to rav009 great help I would like to add some more ANTI-SPAM

THEY ARE ALL FREE:

SpaWeasel Pro

http://www.mailgate.com/products/spamweas/sw_feat.asp

Mail Box Dispatcher 2.30

http://www.anti-spam-tools.com/

Spamihilator

http://www.spamihilator.com/

Spamfighter

http://www.spamfighter.com/

 

Thank's for the suggestions, i've added some

 

You guys are aware that the safest thing to do is not go to any strage sites. (Just in case there are any kids on these forums i dont want to state what site i am talking about, but i think you all know) I read in a magazine that 90% of all viruses gotten are from these kinds of sites. Downloading a "free" video of 2 chicks normaly leads to viruses.....

Also, the other leading place people get viruses are in P2P shareing. Try not to download anykind of file that can have scrpit in it..... Music is good. Pics can now have script in them.... Pretty much everything but music, dont download....

3rd on the list was gamming site and/ hacks to game (maphack, speedhack, teleportation hack) I dont know why they are listed together but they were. I just dont worry about gamming sites. Most are safe. It is like a .3% chance. Or just always go into safe ones. (I am not positive about these, because their is no way to check, i am NOT saying that these sites have viruses but these are the ones i go to: www.ign.com www.gamefaqs.com, these are the ones i trust) As for hacks to games...... just dont do it. It is like the thing in the first paraghraph, you plain out dont need it.... Isnt it more pleasurable to get good in the game by hard work?


Overview:
1) dont go on those sites ><
2) dont download anything but music off P2P programs.
3) no game hacks
4) Dont be scared by game websites, but try to pick safer ones to visit
5) Just use common sense.


I am not saying dont get the programs listed here. I am just saying that even with those prgrams dont do these... You will be able to survive if you don't though. I personaly dont go crazy with it, but just get 1 easy to use virus protection program. If you computer is very important like your buisness computer, get all the programs. Then still dont do any of the above. Those programs cant help you if you go to so sleizy web site and download a 10min vid to "make you happy".

Just be smart.......

 

Hello Sephiroth,

You read 90%, hmmm I don't think the figure will be as high as that from just porn sites, but thats definately a eye opener, just shows you that you need to have common sense

My advice would be just know what your downloading and be careful,ig you engage in p2p downloads use apps like frostwire and make sure to have pg2 running.

You only use a AV ?? nothing else??..No firewall etc?? :S

Basicaly, stay away from dodgey sites and use comment sense, best advice.

I have the perfect thing for this as it goes, its mozzila firefox site advisor.









Great add on, i made a thread all about it in windows software discussin as i thought it was a great find, didnt get any feedback on it so it just fell back to about the 15th page or somthin lol.

Find the thread and download the extension, i can't seem to find it in google searches..

 

On this computer i only have a firewall(which i turn off alot), pop up blocker (i think that is in firefox) And nothing else that i can think off. I am running pretty dry here lol. AVG was on my old computer but i hated it so much. And i am haveing trouble finding out how to do this. My firefox doesnt have the same thing yours does. t.t

 

i've been using nod32 for several months and i have had no problems... i recommend it... i used to use avast... it works great, specially when it scans before startying windows... however, sometimes it didnt remove troyans... i also use spybot: searh & destroy and i can assure it works... it has lots of useful tools such as registry cleaning...
thx for the info displayed before... it turned out to be really useful... there is good inforation in this site

 

Hey thanks LaBaMan =D i appricate the praise, Nod32 is a qaulity program, its paid for though, i think people can have just as secure a pc using free ware.

And yep, this site is great, out of all the forums i'm on i like this one best

Well, no AV is perfect, thats why i use a number of online scans etc along with my AVG.

 

i downloaded the site advisor addon for firefox and got a 41kb file called safe.xpi. Now what do i do with it.

 

rav009 - that's a great list, thanks a lot! wow that must have taken a ton of time to put together!
I do have a question, do you think "error killer" is worth the money (for those of us that need to keep the # of steps short and easy!) or do you feel one of the free reg cleaners you've already posted is the same or better?
Again - thank you for that list! Have a great day everyone ...

 

@phillyj, http://www.siteadvisor.com/ download it from there while on firefox.

@daemian, errror nuker is worth it I'd say, I use Pc Tools RehMechanic myself

 

@rav009 - many many thanks for sharing your wisdom, it's much appreciated

 

-Anti Virus
I have used AVG and Avast, and find the Avast user inter phase is much better, but what AVG lacks on user friendliness it will make up for in virus detection over Avast from my experience, but I feel Avast is still sufficient especially with it's boot time scan function.

-Anti Spy ware
Ewido is quite good as it got almost all of SpyFalcon and Spyware Quake off my system, but at the end of the day it took hijackthis in order to get completely rid of it.

For typical protection I prefer SpyBot Search and Destroy, but use Ad Ware SE and MS antispyware for back ups.

-Firewalls
I used McAfee Express Firewall that comes with AOL but switched to ZoneAlarm when we canceled AOL. ZoneAlarm has offered far superior protection against incoming requests then McAfee Express did.

-Browsers
FireFox is THE BEST. IE just plain sucks, and Avant is very good sub for IE as it incorporates the best of both worlds on a limited basis. Avast has a limited pop up blocker, therefore I switched to FireFox because of the better pop up blocker and some handy extensions.

-Reg Optimizers and Etc
I stumbled on Free Ram XP Pro a few months back, and love it. No more constant booting to restore system performance


Just wanted to add my 2 cents, but thanks for the list. There are a few things i may check out anyways.

 

I'm planning to update the list, it needs it!

 

does anyone know how to deinstall spyware search and destroysince it doesn't come with the file to do so????

 

thanks this has realy helped me alot

 

@gilyvon1,

"does anyone know how to deinstall spyware search and destroysince it doesn't come with the file to do so????"

Do you mean uninstall Spybot S&D?

@jaimittal,

Your welcome, glad it was of some use, watch out for the update!