SteveW
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as a newcomer to the land of Broadband im not 100% sure what is a good FREE Firewall.. Have had a quick peek online and found this..
ZoneAlarm
http://www.download.com/3000-2092-10039884.html
This any good ?? Please help a noob
(i also have AVG Antivirus.. seems to do the trick)
Also want a Registry Cleanup program thats free too.. had Registry Fixer which found over 600 faults in my Registry but its wants me to PAY MONEY to use it i want a free one
any help please guls n gals
Steve
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willay
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a) Get a ADSL Router which does NAT (will be affective as a firewall)
b) ZoneAlarm is fine
c) Get Anti Virus!
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willay
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Free anti virus (been reccomended to me but i havent used it):
http://www.grisoft.com/doc/1
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Cybermonkey
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AVG Free is better than most antivirus scanners that you pay for
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SteveW
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Willay - im using the Grisoft AVG Antivirus. Its pretty good (same as site you posted)
ZoneAlarm is good thos yeah ??
Will look into getting ADSL Router at some point. Not just yet tho dude
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Steve
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inbuilt router protection is good enough to not warrant something installed on a local PC
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SteveW
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Its more of a quick fix until i buy a proper router, dont want to use the SpeedTouch modem forever. just not gonna get one just yet
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dave17
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I have AVG and Zonealarm and never had any virus problems.............
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Steve
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i dont have any anti virus or local firewall and have never had any virus problems
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Aaron
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quote: Originally posted by Steve
i dont have any anti virus or local firewall and have never had any virus problems
That you know of
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Steve
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i know i have no virus's
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Aaron
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How exactly?
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Steve
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secret
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John
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I have no antivirus or firewall and I know for a fact I haven't got any virus's.
I don't know how people manage to get them in the 1st place.
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Steve
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quote: Originally posted by John
I have no antivirus or firewall and I know for a fact I haven't got any virus's.
I don't know how people manage to get them in the 1st place.
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Aaron
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ok
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Cybermonkey
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quote: Originally posted by John
I have no antivirus or firewall and I know for a fact I haven't got any virus's.
I don't know how people manage to get them in the 1st place.
becausawe m6ost poeple who are liek youy are4 still runnintg SP1; which is as unsafe as yoyu can be in the onetnrnet. its security flaws are mind boggeling, uf you are reunstalling XP with only and SP1 installation cd, i guargantee thast you will get sasser within 5 minutes of loigging onypy to the iontenet
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John
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I'm tempted to try that and not get any problems.
I have read all the stuff about a totally unpatched xp system being hacked within 20 mins or whatever though.
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Scoty B
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I have AVG Anti-Virus and Ewido Anti-Spyware.
Is windows firewall ok or should I download one?
[Edited on 03-10-2006 by Scoty B]
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Steve
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quote: Originally posted by Cybermonkey
quote: Originally posted by John
I have no antivirus or firewall and I know for a fact I haven't got any virus's.
I don't know how people manage to get them in the 1st place.
becausawe m6ost poeple who are liek youy are4 still runnintg SP1; which is as unsafe as yoyu can be in the onetnrnet. its security flaws are mind boggeling, uf you are reunstalling XP with only and SP1 installation cd, i guargantee thast you will get sasser within 5 minutes of loigging onypy to the iontenet
sasserminx
[Edited on 03-10-2006 by Steve]
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Aaron
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quote: Originally posted by Cybermonkey
quote: Originally posted by John
I have no antivirus or firewall and I know for a fact I haven't got any virus's.
I don't know how people manage to get them in the 1st place.
becausawe m6ost poeple who are liek youy are4 still runnintg SP1; which is as unsafe as yoyu can be in the onetnrnet. its security flaws are mind boggeling, uf you are reunstalling XP with only and SP1 installation cd, i guargantee thast you will get sasser within 5 minutes of loigging onypy to the iontenet
What had you had to drink before you wrote that?
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John
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A glass of milk.
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Robin
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i have ZA and AVG, but never have ZA pop up and warn me about anything, and i never have any viruses when i run AVG
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John
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You only get viruses if you go to obviously dodgy sites and click yes.
Or use well known dodgy download programs.
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Robin
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but i use limewire, and utorrent.
and look at porn
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