Spyware Warrior
Dec. 9th, 2005 11:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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What's been your most successful combination of security measures? Be sure to say what OS you're running.
I've got WinXP Home edition w/SP1, with the MS firewall turned off. I use Firefox rather than IE whenever possible, which is most of the time now. I don't use Outlook at all -- pretty much everything's on my Yahoo mail account. OpenOffice rather than MS Office.
I run AdAware every week or so. I've got Zone Alarm up all the time, and I go to Trend Micro's http://www.antivirus.com for a free scan every couple of weeks. I don't like Norton or McAfee -- besides their copious system baggage, at least once McAfee basically shut my system down, one file at a time, over a vintage 1998 virus that it should've cleaned in moments. I simply don't trust 'em.
I'm likely gonna install a hardware firewall in the next month or two.
What's been your most successful combination of security measures? Be sure to say what OS you're running.
I've got WinXP Home edition w/SP1, with the MS firewall turned off. I use Firefox rather than IE whenever possible, which is most of the time now. I don't use Outlook at all -- pretty much everything's on my Yahoo mail account. OpenOffice rather than MS Office.
I run AdAware every week or so. I've got Zone Alarm up all the time, and I go to Trend Micro's http://www.antivirus.com for a free scan every couple of weeks. I don't like Norton or McAfee -- besides their copious system baggage, at least once McAfee basically shut my system down, one file at a time, over a vintage 1998 virus that it should've cleaned in moments. I simply don't trust 'em.
I'm likely gonna install a hardware firewall in the next month or two.
