PROTECT YOUR PC (the once and for all, best way to protect yourself online)

[Anonymous]

i've been surfing The Hun for a year and haven't caught anything yet. just one annoying MYLOVE virus. i hate that one.

[polobunny]

boo hoo, you dont like a few ads?

and to whoever it was that mentioned using more tahn one AV, that's just dumb. i talked to a guy at best buy that told me (after taking a look at my laptop) the running avg and nav is a bad idea b/c sometimes NAV will see a virus, and AVG will try to do something with the virus, and they will cancel eachother out, the virus will stay, and sometimes the system will crash.

which is why I completely uninstalled Norton and kept AVG.

Yes it is stupid, don't use more than one AV at a time. What I meant is to do scans with Kaspersky each week, not to let the live protection run.

[Raype]

boo hoo, you dont like a few ads?

and to whoever it was that mentioned using more tahn one AV, that's just dumb. i talked to a guy at best buy that told me (after taking a look at my laptop) the running avg and nav is a bad idea b/c sometimes NAV will see a virus, and AVG will try to do something with the virus, and they will cancel eachother out, the virus will stay, and sometimes the system will crash.

which is why I completely uninstalled Norton and kept AVG.

Okay a few things about that

1. Ads can in fact contain viruses/adware/spyware. Look up "clear pixeling" if you think I'm BSing you. They are bad for computers and should be blocked. Even if it is just to decrease annoyance with all the "Click here"'s flashing around.

2. You trust Best Buy's support team? yeah bunch of n00bs if I ever seen n00bs in my life.

3, AVG is definantly the way to go so you at least know a good AV when you see it. Good job

4. I have 3 AV progs, my CPU is fast, never crashes, and not once have I gotten a virus. So I don't know what you're talking about. I have gotten message that a virus was blocked, but the virus was really blocked and never showed in any of my scans.

Oh and good job with this hardc0re. If this security setup is good enough for you, it's more than good enough for me. Good work with the add on comments as well everyone.

[haha1091]

i got links to a couple programs im not sure if there any good.

ive never heard of em.

can someone possibly tell me.

ill post the names.

01- Hide IP Platinum v1.52
02- A4Proxy v2.8
03- Youngzsoft CCProxy v6.2
04- Proxy Switcher Standard 3.1.318
05- Invisible browsing 4.0.0.1
06- iPrivacyTools (IP Changer) v1.0 Freeware
07- IP Tools v2.50
08- Ip2Country Converter v2.0 Freeware

someone told me there really good at securing ur computer can anyone tell me if they are.

[ZeikHunter]

ignore those, they suck. my suite of proggies when running winblows is firefox, avg, NVIDIA hardware firewall, and privoxy. with that, you dont need anything else.

hell, my security alert keeps going off. too bad im never turning on automatic updates (at least until sp3, but then ill prolly just dl the redist)

[polobunny]

God, this guy is actually using his chipset at it's full potential! :O

[ZeikHunter]

it was really just a way to be lazy. i didnt want to have to dl and install a software firewall, and the one that came with my epox nforce4 9npa has such a nice gui

[Phuzin]

which one is better=
kapersky or AVG?

[Mikey_]

which one is better=
kapersky or AVG?

knowing how many avg fanboys are here, i'd expect tons of replies saying avg.

[X-EvansBasher-X]

polobunny, if you send me the links to those sites (the ones I didn't post) I will update to include them. My setup is more simple (most noobs roll their eyes when dealing with 2 programs..imagine 15!?) but yours covers security down to about 99.9% of stopping everything. Very good work! +REP for you.

Have you ever considered college as a Certified systems security professional? In the U.S. you would be guaranteed a job, especially if some hacking skills go with that. And the IP/hardware fundamentals.

LOL @ norton not being a ressource hog. Check how much ram it takes and cpu time...Even on latest systems, 1mb of RAM stays 1mb of RAM ya know.


My solution would consist of:

AVG Antivirus
Sygate Personal Firewall
Ad-Aware SE
Spybot Search and Destroy
Ewido Security Suite
HijackThis!
M$ Antispyware
Spyware Doctor
Kaspersky Antivirus (for some AVG can't destroy)
Mozilla Firefox + Extensions
-Adblock
-Nuke Anything
PeerGuardian 2
Netlimiter
EasyCleaner

Scan with a different antivirus/anti-spyware every night and you're clean. ^___^
Visit the sites hardc0regamer posted, they are badass. I like the last one alot, it includes great tools.

[sniperrfl1011]

hardc0regamer: I like this thread. I must apologize for my putting down of your last thread on security, as I truely felt it had no relevance to real life, common, average joe PC security, but this one is very good.

[AgentHoze]

Very useful info, thanks guys

[Panda Man]

If you wanna turn off that annoying "Your comp may be at risk cuz you don't have window's faggoth firewall up and automatic downgrades on" message, go to control panel> administrative tools> services and scroll down to "security center." Double click it and set the status to "stop" and then set the startup type to manual (unless you know what you are doing, i wouldn't disable any service).

knowing how many avg fanboys are here, i'd expect tons of replies saying avg.

Is it really being a fanboy using the better one? AVG all the way!

[AgentHoze]

"Your comp may be at risk cuz you don't have window's faggoth firewall up and automatic downgrades on"

rofl nice one

[Panda Man]

dear lord i made some1's sig again!!!!! oh noes!