VaKo Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 AVG is a good thing to use generally, but you may get more millage out of making there current AV program work correctly. If i was scanning from a thumbstick I'd use something like Mcafee Stinger. If your using a warez'd AV program I'd replace it. But to be totally honest how much of this stuff do you need? Your treating a symptom instead of the malady. I use AVG and ad-aware, aside from the viruses I've archived for study my first scan in 64 days turned up a MSN tracking cookie. If your mates are filling there machines with crap and constantly asking to be bailed out, shout at them until it your vision goes black and you wake up in jail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 AVG is a good thing to use generally, but you may get more millage out of making there current AV program work correctly. If i was scanning from a thumbstick I'd use something like Mcafee Stinger. If your using a warez'd AV program I'd replace it. But to be totally honest how much of this stuff do you need? Your treating a symptom instead of the malady. I use AVG and ad-aware, aside from the viruses I've archived for study my first scan in 64 days turned up a MSN tracking cookie. If your mates are filling there machines with crap and constantly asking to be bailed out, shout at them until it your vision goes black and you wake up in jail. QFE! If you need to break out more tools than a bouncer on friday night down the club then something's wrong, it's gone too far. 1 AV and 1 anti-spyware application should do it, and personally I don't even need them most of the time unless I've done something stupid... Fixing others' computers though, if it really is that far gone then just format. Set everything up to scan often and regularly and if they complain about it slowing down their games or quarantining their porn then tough luck really... If some of us can do it then so can everyone else with a little coaching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow1100mfp Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 they onlyask about once a year, but they do surf the internet alot so they get alot of cookies and stuff, it's not that they have a bunch of porn lol. i was just saying that if your worried about tracking cookies, and basic spyware you should have a couple of good programs (even if you only use one) to get rid of them since a/v software doesn't block cookies unless they are malicious, and a majority of the cookies i get aren't considered malicious by any of the a/v ive tried so fay, they say its a level yellow and they only start deleting them and blocking them at level orange. but agreed, you shouldn't need more then one av (to scan the computer when you decide, not real time protection), one spyware(again, not real time) one regular scanner (real time turns on with the computer just like a firewall, infact, thats what it is in some cases). for me though, having spares of everything is always a necessity. so i enjoy the fact that if one thing fucks up (be it the computer itself or one a/v program) i have spares of other software that does basically the same thing. i don't even need them installed, i just burn them to a cd or put them on my thumb drive (sometimes both), and i just keep them there in case something happens. i think it was hak.5 where this was mentioned but im not sure, "everyone would like to back up but no one thinks of backing their data up until its too late" (which is why im going out to buy me a brand new 160gb hard drive in a raid1 array for my dell). other then having spares, what are you going to do? some viruses and worms shut off your internet connection AND disable your virus detection stuff, then your pretty well fucked unless you have spares on hand or have backup methods of getting rid of the bad stuff, am i right? however, it's not my data that is on the line, so do what you want. you will be wishing you listened to people such as vako and my self who are telling you its better to be safe then sorry, and i don't know about him, but i know that i learned this through experience not once, but several times. so take care of your stuff and you won't be begging to be bailed out oh; just to clear it up: i don't use warez(d) antispyware, at least i don't consider it warez, and id never use that kind because its probably a trap all on its own. warez is something you download through like p2p, right? this is the actual program. you download it off the mcafee site, its just you get the program for one year instead of the usual 31 day demo (i think its a one month demo anyway). this banking site has a license i guess and they offer it to their customers but they don't make you sign in to download it, you click on login, log out, and scroll down and theres a link to get it for a year, takes you right to the mcafee site and you download it after you make an account, you just fill in a spare email address and you download the program, install it and you have the mcafee suit for one year, free. warez is something you download through p2p networks or something, or you illegally download it... this isn't illegal, its just a workaround for a webstie that has a license to distribute it (well link to it) for free. so if its illegal then i must have understood it incorrectly but im almost positive i didn't. in any case, its the real full legal program, direct from mcafee. with the same annoying popup messages of what its doing ("scan commencing" "scan done" etc)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 What in gods name is a yellow level cookie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow1100mfp Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 What in gods name is a yellow level cookie? haha, the spyware prevention software i have measures threats in levels of color, much like the level of forrest fire threat or terrorism threat. and as far as i can tell, yellow level cookies are things like tool bars (starware or w/e its called) and it doesn't remove them unless you do it manually. so its like a number scale, from one to five, 1 is white (nothing at risk), 2 is yellow (cookies that you accepted), 3 being orange (elevated risk), 4 is redorange (actual viruses and Trojans), and 5 is red (complete lockdown, shuts off internet connection and all communication to other computers. someones been looking at some naughty stuff lol) (i found the article of how to get it free: http://www.i-hack.org/computer/software/ho...nti-virus.html) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 You should only allow cookies from sites you trust, except google.co.uk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noobsofuknwhat Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 avg best out there does take a little mem to run though also get mcafee site advisor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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