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Firefox, not only is the best browser as numerous people have said and will not get spyware or popups, but it is the fastest growing. 25 million downloads in 99 days. Hell yes. Hey avant, beat that!
The only thing I found wrong is that with firefox, when a website tries to install spyware, and firefox refuses to, it keeps trying and sometimes freezes it.
What's so good about Firefox growing fast? I can't see anything positive in it, but some negative, like malicious users trying to hack it more.
Let this be a lession to you all. Scan every day.
mmm...... thats not a lesson,thats a must be but not every day though
I'd personally recommend Adaware 6 Professional
It's really good
I tried many of the programs on the first post of this thread. However, none of them seem to work properly on my computer. Ad-Aware act dumb when it come of deleting/quarantine stuff. Norton monopolize almost all my computer, so as it was a spyware itself... damn... :(
ad-aware will take a long time if you are using it to delete/quarentine more than 100 spyware/adwares at once...
have you tried spybot? or even MS anti spyware is actually rather nice
Personaly, I don't use any antivirus: it never prevent new viruses to enter my comp, all they do is to block me from using my comp how I want to...
AdAware + Spybot everyday is most of the time enpough to keep my comp clean. Once in a while, I'll scan it with an online free anti-virus (I use Panda).
But when things turns real bad (super trojan etc.) I have a simple yet powerfull solution that requires no program: disable xp's restore points (scary I know), reboot comp in safe mod, erase contents of temporary internet files and temp folders, and that for every profile on the comp.
I've slayed terribly anoying trojans/malwares, that no software would kill, with this method.
Now, all I miss is a good registry cleaner: could anyone adwise me one (free=better)?
Hmm. RegClean from MS. It's freeware, it's small (filesize),Quote:
Originally Posted by mrchampipi
it's good (not the best) and it creates a restore point to your registry.
And who can tell you more about registry than MS. :lol
it seems that you havent found the proper one,use antivir and some giant antispyware,adaware and spybot i also recomend spyware blaster if you install all these programs it would be very dificult almost imposible that any virus will get into your comp,and with these programs you dont need to cease using various things in your compQuote:
Originally Posted by mrchampipi
The absolute best reg cleaner that I know of is the one that I use which is Regcleaner 4.3 by Jouni Vuoro...you can get it here
http://www.devionic.com/download/bac...t.php?link=145
This program has the ability to see ALL software installed on your PC and not just what is on the Add/Remove list in the Control Panel. It has lots of tools that you can play with and has a very user friendly interface...It also makes a backup of the registry entries that it removes so that if something happens to make your PC unstable, you can restore them quickly and easily
Yea, Finnish software is the best :nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pyro_420
Maybe...but I've tried several ones...Quote:
Originally Posted by Valholy
My point lies in the "sword and shield theory": when a new virus is hanging around the web, it takes some days before the anti virus get updated for it.
Anyway, I'm pretty much a noob when it comes to computer (even though I'm using those since ages_my first comp was my dad's apple IIc_), so I'm not going to argue...
actually a VERY good place to go for most thigns like this and hijackthis would be webmaster forums >> im not sure if its ok for me to post the link or not but you could prolly google it
Is it true that it will freezes when firefox refuse to install some spyware??Quote:
Originally Posted by soccerboi
My firefox recently started to freeze even I'm trying to check in this forum. Plus I can't add/remove some bookmark of it so I started to use Opera and hope nothing bad happen to it...