I sent Microsoft an email from the information page about discontinuing support for the listed products. I sent last night and asked them what would they suggest to do; buy a new computer with the latest OS installed and risk loosing my current programs OR take a chance and buy one of the discounted microsoft products.
Guess what---NO Answer at all! And these are the folks with the answer to everything!
Guess what---NO Answer at all! And these are the folks with the answer to everything!
From my own personal experience, which is using computers on Windows XP and some kind of Professional 2000 format. First off from my experience and from those I have talked to Spybot and Ad-aware, which are both free, are both superior to 90% of the stuff that is not free. Also for myself I have found Ad-aware 6 is superior to Spybot. I am judging this from the fact that when I would have both on the same computer, if I ran Spybot 1st, then Ad-aware, Ad-aware would find problems not caught by Spybot. If I ran Ad-aware first, then Spybot, Spybot would never find any more problems. This computer that I am typing from right now, which has dial-up and the professional 2000 software, was so full of spyware and popups a couple of months ago, that it almost was not worth turning on. After using Spybot and Ad-aware, I literally get no popups anymore. Both are great free programs.
Anyone use www.evidence-eliminator.com ???? I hear that they are great.
Agnitum Firewall
AVG Anti Virus
Adware
SpyBot
Spamfighter (for Outlook users)
All programs are free and great.
AVG Anti Virus
Adware
SpyBot
Spamfighter (for Outlook users)
All programs are free and great.
www.trendmicro.com <excellent free virus scanner
Hi can let everyone in on a few usefull bits of information that can explain many of the problems related to viruses and the way companies want you to believe there products work. In all honesty you need to know a little bit about your CPU and understand that a simple virus scan like Norton Antivirus will never work for people that download and surf more than usual.
Scanning misses many viruses. Your vendor happily tells you how many viruses your scanner detects, but fails to mention how many it misses. The viruses missed include "new" viruses written in the past 6 months (nearly half of all viruses) and older polymorphics that the vendor has still not mastered. For any scanner, it is easy for someone with a large collection of viruses to produce viruses the product misses.
Scanning can spread infection. Many viruses are now being written to infect on file open, file close, or directory traversal. Scanners do all these things. So when such a virus is resident, and not detected by your scanner, your scanner will actually spread the infection to everything you scan. If the scanner becomes infected, and does not let you know, then every time you scan, you will make things worse.
Critical files cannot be scannedCritical files cannot be scanned on the server by DOS-based scanners because they are already open. Such files are unlikely to be infected by a DOS virus, for if they are open at the time the virus tries to infect, the virus will be foiled. But the virus could get in at a time the file is not open, with the scanner subsequently failing to get a chance to look at the file.
A virus can spread throughout an entire network in seconds.virus can spread throughout an entire network in seconds. Thus detection by a scanner can be far too late. A common event is for an unwitting network supervisor with a virus such as Jerusalem.Sunday or SatanBug in memory to login and use the server. Everything they run becomes infected: LOGIN, MENU, ... LOGOUT. The next users to use any of these programs introduce the virus to their machine's memory, and will now infect anything they run from their hard disks, and any programs on the server which are in directories where they have write permission. A daily scan is not enough. In fact, a server scan done every 30 minutes is not often enough.
Resident scanners will generally fail to detect any stealth virus when the virus is resident. All stealth boot viruses and most stealth file viruses will load before the resident scanner, thwarting its good intentions.
In most products, a resident scanner large enough to scan for many viruses is too large for user memory; one small enough for memory must read from disk, and is thus too slow. Only a few resident scanners detect polymorphic viruses. In short, implementations of resident scanning are typically inept.
A resident scanner that interferes with user behavior will be removed by the user, no matter how successfully it interferes with viruses. Most resident scanners slow simple tasks such as file copy by a factor of 3 or more. If users wanted slower computers, they wouldn't be asking for new ones
Most scanners destroy some percentage of files or diskettes when told to remove particular viruses. Thus if you remove without first testing removal, you may cause more harm than good.
You can't learn anything about a virus if every copy of it is destroyed. You need to know more about the virus if you want to understand where it came from or why it keeps coming back. Removing the virus removes your ability to understand it.
For best results, use two or more anti-virus products."
Main points:
Anti-virus products typically false alarm on each other: number 1 leaves a scan string in memory; number 2 sees the string and thinks a virus is there. The false alarm is the result of poor coding on the part of both products, and the use of the same scan string often one that was published in a virus research journal.
Products that "inoculate" files may modify programs that perform self-checks, preventing the inoculated program from running. Products may try protecting each other, causing each self-check to fail.
All in all one must understand the new inviorment we work and play in today. This is the best step for living virus free. Learn how to surf!
Scanning misses many viruses. Your vendor happily tells you how many viruses your scanner detects, but fails to mention how many it misses. The viruses missed include "new" viruses written in the past 6 months (nearly half of all viruses) and older polymorphics that the vendor has still not mastered. For any scanner, it is easy for someone with a large collection of viruses to produce viruses the product misses.
Scanning can spread infection. Many viruses are now being written to infect on file open, file close, or directory traversal. Scanners do all these things. So when such a virus is resident, and not detected by your scanner, your scanner will actually spread the infection to everything you scan. If the scanner becomes infected, and does not let you know, then every time you scan, you will make things worse.
Critical files cannot be scannedCritical files cannot be scanned on the server by DOS-based scanners because they are already open. Such files are unlikely to be infected by a DOS virus, for if they are open at the time the virus tries to infect, the virus will be foiled. But the virus could get in at a time the file is not open, with the scanner subsequently failing to get a chance to look at the file.
A virus can spread throughout an entire network in seconds.virus can spread throughout an entire network in seconds. Thus detection by a scanner can be far too late. A common event is for an unwitting network supervisor with a virus such as Jerusalem.Sunday or SatanBug in memory to login and use the server. Everything they run becomes infected: LOGIN, MENU, ... LOGOUT. The next users to use any of these programs introduce the virus to their machine's memory, and will now infect anything they run from their hard disks, and any programs on the server which are in directories where they have write permission. A daily scan is not enough. In fact, a server scan done every 30 minutes is not often enough.
Resident scanners will generally fail to detect any stealth virus when the virus is resident. All stealth boot viruses and most stealth file viruses will load before the resident scanner, thwarting its good intentions.
In most products, a resident scanner large enough to scan for many viruses is too large for user memory; one small enough for memory must read from disk, and is thus too slow. Only a few resident scanners detect polymorphic viruses. In short, implementations of resident scanning are typically inept.
A resident scanner that interferes with user behavior will be removed by the user, no matter how successfully it interferes with viruses. Most resident scanners slow simple tasks such as file copy by a factor of 3 or more. If users wanted slower computers, they wouldn't be asking for new ones
Most scanners destroy some percentage of files or diskettes when told to remove particular viruses. Thus if you remove without first testing removal, you may cause more harm than good.
You can't learn anything about a virus if every copy of it is destroyed. You need to know more about the virus if you want to understand where it came from or why it keeps coming back. Removing the virus removes your ability to understand it.
For best results, use two or more anti-virus products."
Main points:
Anti-virus products typically false alarm on each other: number 1 leaves a scan string in memory; number 2 sees the string and thinks a virus is there. The false alarm is the result of poor coding on the part of both products, and the use of the same scan string often one that was published in a virus research journal.
Products that "inoculate" files may modify programs that perform self-checks, preventing the inoculated program from running. Products may try protecting each other, causing each self-check to fail.
All in all one must understand the new inviorment we work and play in today. This is the best step for living virus free. Learn how to surf!
This link is useful in understanding how all these products work and how they should be used for best results.
http://www.stiller.com/avsw.htm
http://www.stiller.com/avsw.htm
Thanks Cheater,
Thats what I do most of the time actually. Alot of people use anonymous tools or proxy servers today.
http://www.kniff.de
Thats what I do most of the time actually. Alot of people use anonymous tools or proxy servers today.
http://www.kniff.de
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Rickf:
Thanks Cheater,
Thats what I do most of the time actually. Alot of people use anonymous tools or proxy servers today.
http://www.kniff.de<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Rick, is there a english version of this page?
Thanks Cheater,
Thats what I do most of the time actually. Alot of people use anonymous tools or proxy servers today.
http://www.kniff.de<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Rick, is there a english version of this page?
Sorry no english version KIF But you can use www.makemeinvisible.com
Not as fast as KIFF, but does the same job.
Rick
Not as fast as KIFF, but does the same job.
Rick
Just figured out http://www.kniff.de, works like a charm! Thanks alot!
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Phaedrus:
A fairly good concise primer of what proxies are, how they work, and why you should use them for all Internet activity is http://tools.rosinstrument.com/proxy/howto.htm. A sizable list of proxy services (many of which also contain a wealth of information related to online privacy) is below. I should caveat that I have visited all of these pages, but have not used all of their proxies, and I have not visited them in the last 30 days or so, so some may no longer be available or may have changed their service.
Phaedrus
http://www.anonymizer.com
http://www.magusnet.com
http://www.safeproxy.org
http://www.guardster.com
http://autistici.org
http://www.proxyone.com
http://www.space.net.au/~thomas/quickbrowse.html#a
https://proxy.autistici.org
http://www.goproxy.com
http://www.silenter.com
http://www.sendfakemail.com
http://www.anonymprom.com
http://www.geocities.com/saproxy/in
http://anonymouse.com
http://www.proxyweb.net
http://www.snoopblocker.com
http://webwarper.net
http://www.metaspinner-media.de/mdsme/mdsme-docs/proxy.shtml<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Thanks alot Phaedrus
Very usefull stuff in this link that Phaedrus started
A fairly good concise primer of what proxies are, how they work, and why you should use them for all Internet activity is http://tools.rosinstrument.com/proxy/howto.htm. A sizable list of proxy services (many of which also contain a wealth of information related to online privacy) is below. I should caveat that I have visited all of these pages, but have not used all of their proxies, and I have not visited them in the last 30 days or so, so some may no longer be available or may have changed their service.
Phaedrus
http://www.anonymizer.com
http://www.magusnet.com
http://www.safeproxy.org
http://www.guardster.com
http://autistici.org
http://www.proxyone.com
http://www.space.net.au/~thomas/quickbrowse.html#a
https://proxy.autistici.org
http://www.goproxy.com
http://www.silenter.com
http://www.sendfakemail.com
http://www.anonymprom.com
http://www.geocities.com/saproxy/in
http://anonymouse.com
http://www.proxyweb.net
http://www.snoopblocker.com
http://webwarper.net
http://www.metaspinner-media.de/mdsme/mdsme-docs/proxy.shtml<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Thanks alot Phaedrus
Very usefull stuff in this link that Phaedrus started
