Re: Just venting (totally OT)

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On Jan 30, 6:01 pm, Loz <lozz...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I personally use

1) AVG antivirus 7.5
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-virus/us/frt/0

2)Comodo Firewall 3
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

3) PC tools starter edition Spyware Doctor (via googlepack)
http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/google_pack/


Looks a decent set to me.

Yep :-)You can have as many browsers on your pc as you want. I've got
IE, Firefox and Opera.

I should add that many browsers only let you have one version at a
time, so it's IE6 or IE7, not both.


Internet Explorer is ok but coz 75% or so of the world use it virus
writers specifically write their nasties to exploit vulnerabilities in
Internet Explorer. Thus firefox is more secure, and I like it coz it is
also faster and not made by Microsoft ;-)

You're not wrong there. Unfortunately there are a large number of
sites out there that only work properly with IE. I was really
surprised when the FT100 company told me that they only worked with
IE7 because IE6 was still the majority browser at the time (July).
It's nice to see Firefox doing so well (I found up-to-date stats
showing it up to 30% and Microsoft just below 70%).

I'll try to put some perspective behind this firewall stuff.

Average Joe on a budget might well go into PC World, buy a cheap
internet modem without a firewall, use the default Microsoft firewall
and never get hacked. There are very few active hackers out there and
lots of Average Joes, and hackers prefer to target interesting
computers like the government or companies. Average Joes are mainly
left to passive traps like viruses and spyware.

If you sit behind a router with a firewall, you're a hell of a lot
more secure than Average Joe. It's like having a huge fence topped by
razor wire round your property, and gates at the front with a security
guard. Hoodies, gypsies and Mormons stand no chance.

The hacker basically has to turn up dressed like a pizza delivery boy,
carrying a pizza and tell the security guard "Pizza for Loz at number
seven". The firewall on each computer is like having another security
guard at the your front door who knows you haven't ordered a pizza.
It's another level of protection which doesn't duplicate what you've
already got.

It's not perfect - the only way to be completely safe is to be like
the military and have a private network not connected to the outside
world. But if you're paranoid, or your company can't afford to take
any unnecessary risks, installing a firewall on each PC is a small
price to pay.

Evil Nigel
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