Cable modem - i.e. always on connection - needs a Firewall and a better
one than what I heard MS's built in one is. I prefer to use Comodo
Internet Security suite that included anti-virus and firewall. And yes,
they have a free version. They have a host of free security packages.
If you use AVG, the pair it with a free firewall like Zonealarm, since
the last time I knew AVG with firewall was not free.
Also you should use a variety of different types of blockers and
scanner/cleaners. The more you use the less likely that something might
slip through all of your packages. Of course you should never have 2
firewalls and two anti-virus packages running at the same time.
Then to the anti-elephant power, well just because you do not see
elephant foot prints does not mean that they did not get inside your
house and searched the place before leaving. The same is true with all
those "nasties". If you do not keep everything up-to-date, then these
"elephants" could come in and shut down the monitors letting you know
that they were ever there. I know of several cases where people never
kept their security databases up-to-date and they let the "elephants"
into the "house" and were never the wiser since the "had the protection"
and never felt the need to keep it fed with the needed "data" bread
crumbs to keep their protection happy and healthy. I know of one system
that had an owner add the security and someone else removing it since it
"slowed down" his file transfers and stopped him for accessing "certain"
sites, one that the security would stop you from going to.
On 08/06/2013 03:37 PM, Andrew Brown wrote:
Well said
Andrew Brown
On 06/08/2013 09:10 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
I've not had any problems with AVG so far. Afaik!
But i definitely think anti-malware stuff is definitely one of those
things that people have to make up their own minds about which is
best for them. After-all if it works really well then you never know
it's doing anything. if it does log lots of things happening then is
that stuff that it's making up or would the attacks have happened
anyway.
It's a bit like the fella in Peckham sprinkling anti-elephant powder
on his doorstep each morning. It 'obviously' works because there are
no elephants in Peckham.
Even better is the example from House MD where a lady said that her
monthles had stopped but that was one of the possible side effects of
her birth-control pills working. House pointed out it was also a
possible side-effect of her pills NOT working.
Regards from
Tom :)
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*From:* Andrew Brown <[email protected]>
*To:* Tom Davies <[email protected]>
*Cc:* Kracked_P_P---webmaster <[email protected]>;
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*Sent:* Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 19:05
*Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] start up speed
Hi Tom
You are on track, but one thing I will give in defence of freeware
malware protection, is MS Security Essentials. It along with the MS
firewall built in and Windows Defender built in and activated
fully with
MSSE installed, make for a not bad system. And you are correct, MS
I am
sure are fully aware of their exploitable code/bugs/weaknesses, not
necessary found by themselves, but by very clever honest and
dishonest
malware practitioners out there. With personal experience, usage and
fighting a good fight, my trust of AVG has waned big time, and
MSSE is
now top, as I said for freeware. One must remember freeware tools
are
not strong with active protection and scanning of your system,
plugged
in devices and email, this is where MSSE does excel.
In this order, I mention a Linux scanner that is now ported to
MS, as
it's not bad and totally opensource.
Freeware
1. MSSE
2. Avast
3. ClamAV for Windows
For payware there is only two, by continuous test, both personal,
business and enterprize, and without starting a flame war
Kaspersky
ESET Nod32
Regards
Andrew Brown
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