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tYike · Guest Offline

What is the BEST internet protection out there? I have Norton Personal firewall (pathetic), and Windows XP Firewall (never had any blocks from), and Yahoo Yahoo protetion w/antispy/virus, and pop up blocker.

Is there any better internet secutity prog's out there today you would recomend?

Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

Hardware router/firewall
ZoneAlarm
Firefox
AdAware
SpyBot
HiJackThis
Anti-Virus (your choice)
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phong · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:02 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

run linux with every port blocked.

Chambahs · Power attack Joined: Jun 19 2005 Posts: 820 Offline

I have Kaspersky AV, Zone Alarm, Spybot S&D, and Ad Aware, and i use TuneUp Utilities 2004 for misc things

Donkano · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:41 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Chambahs · Power attack Joined: Jun 19 2005 Posts: 820 Offline

zone alarm is a firewall...

Donkano · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:46 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I thought it was an anti-virus and a firewall in 1 program. That is what most of the AV's out there are like.

Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

Newer version have some AV, but I only use an older firewall-only version.

Default · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:21 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I am using Panda Platinum Internet Security.

newb · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:39 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Muskrat · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:44 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

The firewall part(ZoneAlarm) is the only free part of the zone labs internet security software. I use ZoneAlarm and I like its setup.

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:35 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

ZoneAlarm is nice, but it's kinda pointless if you have a hardware firewall like a router. Sure, it's nice to check outgoing connections, but I take care of those with spyware checkers.
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Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

Quan Chi2 · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:41 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

SpySweeper is always nice.
Ad-Aware is.
Kaspersky is very nice.
Spybot S&D is nice.

There are many tools you can find at http://google.com/ and http://astalavista.box.sk/

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:59 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Did you even read my second sentence, Ekted?

If you're going to argue with me, argue with that because I already said what you said.

Muskrat · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:04 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Maybe he was just stoned.

Gus. · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:41 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

ZoneAlarm made my PC crash and i was spammed with those "report this crash to microsoft" things. I think it was my fault because i got carried away with its power and disabled shit that i didnt know what it did. I have uninstalled that though. (this all happened today lol)

Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 7:09 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Legitimate apps that you don't want connecting out? Like what?

Solo Ace · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 7:36 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Like Windows Media Player (which I use for mms streams).
Yeah, tell me to use another MP, I won't though.

The only MP with a good implementation of that protocol with a bunch of nice audio features is Windows Media Player.
It keeps checking for updates though, which I dislike (it can't be turned off).
I blocked the updating process.

Also, instead of filtering website content, you could just block their host.
I hate danasoft.com, for example, with their crappy spyware signatures.

I exactly get what Ek means. My hardware firewall and my Linux box are nice for authorizing traffic on a low level (IP), but for stuff like this I prefer application-level.

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 8:36 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Well, I'm not saying that there's no reason for it at all, but I guess I'd just rather not have some daemon running all the time. I use about 128MB of my 256MB of RAM normally, and I like to keep it that way.

And I use MP occasionally, but version 6 or something before it got obtrusive. And I actually thought you recommended MPC on this board somewhere.

Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

My ZA uses 4MB of memory, and after running for 24 hours straight has used 35 seconds of CPU.

Swift · Newbie Joined: Jun 30 2004 Posts: 11 Offline

I use BullGuard

A/V (Updated 4 or 5 times a day)
F/W
Spam Filter
BackUp

And it is all in one. Never had problems with it ever and it's kept my system secure for the year and 2 months I've used it.

SpecShip · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 8:09 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I use:
ZoneAlarm, The Cleaner, ProcessGuard, Annonymizer, eSafe internal software firewall, checkpoint router hardware+software firewall, etc. measures.
All liscenced - full software.
Used to have norton AV, but it kept having problems and misperforming.
ZA's firewall/AV system seem to function better.
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Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

Did you all know that ZoneAlarm connects back directly to ZoneLabs to do reverse DNS for every IP it is resolving, and that ZoneLabs records and SELLS this info? I have all the host names they use for this blocked in my hosts file. :/