"Eustace" <emfril******.com> wrote in message
news:eqM7bub#JHA.5064@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> On 2009-06-30 10:02 LVTravel wrote:[color=green]
>>
>>
>> "Eustace" <emfril******.com> wrote in message
>> news:#Wo0kGV#JHA.3544@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>> I just uninstalled the McAffee Security Center that came with my laptop
>>> and installed AVG antivirus instead. Is there anything else I need to do
>>> to complete the basic protection of my system?
>>>
>>> emf
>>>[/color]
>>
>>
>> AVG free is a fairly good antivirus program and should suffice with your
>> browsing as long as you practice "safe-surfing." No antivirus program
>> will protect you if you do not practice safe-surfing. There are a lot of
>> people who also like Avast. In it's earlier versions, I had issues with
>> updating on two of my 5 computers and so dumped it for AVG which ran
>> without problems.[/color]
>
> I use(d) AVG with my Win 98 machine. Then with my Win XP laptop I decided
> to keep McAffee, though now I think I shouldn't have. I also use Firefox
> which is considered safer for browsing.
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>> You need to ensure that your Vista firewall is functioning. It, again
>> will normally be enough to protect from the hacker's attempts to
>> infiltrate your system.[/color]
>
> It is functioning. In my Win 98 machine I used ZoneAlarm, but now I do not
> need it; that's a plus for XP, Vista.
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>> There are free firewalls available to replace the Vista one if you decide
>> to go that route.
>> I use Zone Alarm from CheckPoint software:
>> [url]http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-us/zonealarm-pc-security-free-firewall.htm[/url]
>> on all my systems as it is free and it does a good job of blocking
>> outsiders. The only issue I have is the occasional failure of the
>> program to remember approved use of the intra or internet by some of my
>> programs.
>>
>> You also need to occasionally run mal-ware checkers. I use Spybot search
>> and destroy, Malware bytes and Ad-aware which can all be downloaded and
>> installed from these sites:
>>
>> [url]http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html[/url]
>> [url]http://www.malwarebytes.org/[/url]
>> [url]http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php[/url][/color]
>
> I'll get ad-aware, as in my earlier machines, for an occasional check-up.
> It rarely caught anything but cookies. Except at some point in the
> beginning when something was redialing when I got disconnected. Than I got
> directions and checked the machine with 2-3 different programs to make
> sure it is clean.
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>> There are others out there but again, be careful what you get and where
>> you get it from.
>>
>> I heartily agree that you need to uninstall McAfee as it, as well as
>> Norton's programs, are resource hogs. I have always had issues with
>> McAfee not finding malware that even AVG found.[/color]
>
> I should have uninstalled McAfee from my Win XP machine too. I didn't out
> of inertia and maybe curiosity with that map you were getting to see from
> where they were trying to infiltrate, though I opened it only a couple of
> times in the beginning... And I did realized it was slowing down the
> system when it was scanning.
>
> Thanks,
>
> emf
>
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Good, but, make sure you run more than one malware checker because one does
not always find everything that may have gotten onto a system. That is why
I gave you the three web sites.