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Felicia FoXX See my TER Reviews 6199 reads
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Currently I have Norton's antivirus and firewall as well as microsoft firewall, but looking toward Trend Micro's Pc-cillin, as they seem to have more expansive "amenities".  Anyone have any experiences with this particular program?  

I use TM to do scans in addition to my Norton scans, as I know that sometimes a hacker can disable Norton, so Trend Micro's free remote scan has proven useful.  A tech also told me that TM tends to catch things that Norton can't catch...

Would appreciate any input, as my Norton expires in about 8 days.

thanks

FF

ResidentCivvie2442 reads

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WebTerrorist2477 reads

AVG is may be good at finding viruses, if the definitions are updated, but it is not good at getting rid of viruses.
I and a number of people I know on a geek site I moderate, have had experiences with AVG claiming to have cleaned up a virus, only to find the exact same virus in the exact same file on  subsequent scans (I always do a full scan after a virus has been found....just a thing with me).
Also, AVG is notorius for false positives and labeling spyware viruses that it then says it can't cleanup.

For a free antivirus I suggest Avast:
http://www.avast.com/

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ResidentCivvie1827 reads

it would continuously pop up and tell me there was a virus, ask if I wanted it removed, I would say yes, and then it would pop up again, and it would show up in scan results later. I had so many pop up messages from it that I couldn't even use the computer without disabling it avast first. I've never had a single problem with AVG. Of course all I have is a home PC, no servers or anything, but I do use it for work.

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WatsonAndCrick2330 reads

I checked out the Avast web site.

Will Avast run on Windows 2000 SERVER?

the latest AVG version stopped supporting SERVER platforms.  :(

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Felicia FoXX2353 reads

Not sure what your particular needs are... I have a website, since Dec 1998 so my website email has been harvested, pillaged, raped, burned, disseminated, dissected, drawn and quartered, so you can imagine the spam and attacks I get.  Still not nearly as bad as someone who has a commerce site.

Thank you.

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Stealthmode3091 reads


... and let you worry about more important things such as which shoes to wear with which outfit…;-)

These guys have done their research and I always appreciate comments from users of the products too!

http://reviews.cnet.com/Trend_Micro_PC_cillin_Internet_Security_2005/4505-3667_7-31162897-2.html?tag=top

I too am tired of hackers being able do disable the features of my security software! Trend Micro's PC-cillin doesn’t offer auto scanning but this feature was disabled by hackers as soon as I installed Norton any way. Moving on to Trend Micro myself…

If you would like to see a comparison of products this might help
http://reviews.cnet.com/Antivirus/4502-3681_7-0.html?tag=dir.av

BTW…we could talk about your software and my hardware all day long, but can we please leave out the virus talk??? I’m all for safe play but it makes my hardware go soft :(

Hope this helps…

Tweet tweet.


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Related Link: Trend Micro PCcillion Review

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Felicia FoXX3013 reads

Thank you.  

Actually had a discussion tonight with a male who was adamant  about Kaspersky after having also supposedly read some reviews.  I mentioned Trend Micro and he gave me the attitude. (Of course I am a dumb blonde who only thinks about shoes.  But so what it's fun.  You do your monster trucks, I'll do my stilettos.)







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Felicia FoXX3311 reads

B = Babe
I = In
T = Total
C = Control Of
H = Herself or is it Him (and therein lies the dilemma, and we aren't even talking transgender here, which makes it even more multidimensional.)

Anyway, Snowblind, you Mr. Thang, you, you are telling all, so just shut up and quit chewing on my spikes, lol. I need my penises. Even though they have no where to go at this hour, lol.  

I'm in a bad girl mood 2night.  

xoxo



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WebTerrorist2585 reads

Trend Micro is a good antivirus, personally I prefer Panda Antivirus:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/home/default.asp

you might want to give it a look as well, either way they are both better than Norton's in my opinion.

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Felicia FoXX4470 reads

Thank you. I saw their name come up on the reviews.  I just wondered, everyone's needs are different...good to know that these programs actually work.  I get so much spam in the mail, I'm never sure if anything is actually legit, so I just say NO.  Lol.  That is until I hear actual testimony.  Guess I know a bit how you guys feel when you read reviews and ask anyway....  

Thank you.  I will check into Panda.

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lseek4373 reads

Trend is signficantly better than Norton. Norton is notorious for both missing things and silently not updating definition files.

There's an alternative from Trend as well, called housecall, that's a free web-based scan (so it's not preventative, but it's still a great tool.)

Other advice: use Firefox for your web browser and Thunderbird for email if you don't use web-based email. (Both free from www.mozilla.org) Getting Internet Explorer and Outlook/Outlook Express out of the picture greatly reduces your chances of getting a virus, worm, or trojan online.

Related Link: http://housecall.trendmicro.com

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Felicia FoXX3898 reads

but wasn't quite prepared... I am significantly more savvy now, but like I said, I was told that firefox is a really great option.  Will check into both, thanks.  

oh, and I have been using trend micro housecalls for about 2 years,  which is why I'm considering their antivirus/antispam, etc protection...

thank you  :-))

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WebTerrorist2231 reads

Firefox:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Thunderbird:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

Once you get used to tabbed browsing, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.  :)

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lseek3301 reads

Taking the open source approach one better here --

I use firefox and thunderbird on a linux PC and never worry about viruses.

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sgtdong3272 reads

Though Trend Micro does not get the publicity that Norton and McAfee has, TM has consistently made a reliable product and also uses less 'resources' on your computer.  Get the bundled product if you'd like.  It also comes with a pretty good Anti-Virus for e-mail as well.  Firewall, anti-phishing, spam, stops hackers, and more.  Best buy for the money out there.

Personally, I am not an Internet Explorer user anymore, but have gone back to Netscape.  Too many people gunning for Internet Explorer's numerous exploits to make it a 'safe' browser anymore.  

With the advent of Service Pack 2 from Microsoft, Outlook Express has gotten 'safer', but not by much.  To free yourself from viruses and spyware and malware, start with a newly formatted system, patch it upto date with the latest security fixes from Microsoft, and don't download anything with an "Active X" control.  If an e-mail have an attachment, write back to the person or call the fella up and ask, "Did you send this piece of e-mail with the attachment."  If not, delete it.  

These are simple rules to live by.  

1.  Use a different browser other than IE.
2.  Keep your system up to date with all of the latest patches.
3.  Don't install "Active X" controls when visiting ANY site.
4.  Get a decent router.  It would do wonders towards securing your computer.
5.  Uncheck the "Remote" Options in the System menu.
6.  Unplug your modem when not in use.
7.  Turn the power off to your Cable / DSL modem when not online or gone for more than 5 minutes.  
8.  Create a password of at the minimum of 8 characters, with UPPER case and lower cased letters and one or more of the characters on top of the 'numbers'.  Please don't make it so easy that it can be found in "ANY" dictionary.  


Those are the words to live by when thinking security.

NOTE:  I did not mention anything about anti-virus in my checklist.

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Related Link: http://www.trendmicro.com/en/products/desktop/pc-cillin/evaluate/overview.htm

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sgtdong2026 reads

my post has been edited twice already.

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followme2723 reads

I have been told by some that it is best too have at least two anti-virus programs.... they tell me that one will get what the other does not.....
I have been told by others that if you have more than one that they will most likely conflict with each other....

Now I an so confused it makes my hair hurt.....

any thoughts, advice, suggestions on this.

Thank You

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sgtdong2173 reads

Good question, but having two sometimes DOES conflict with one another, but if you must get two programs, get McAfee and Norton.  They are the main stream virus programs out there and would be less likely to have issues with one another.  

Better yet, do what I wrote above and you WON'T need to have a virus program.  

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Lex Luethor2317 reads

Every six months or so, ol' dad installs Norton on top of McAffee or vice versa, f's-up his boot partition, and forces me to make the trek up to his place to reinstall XP. Sometimes his data can be saved, sometimes not. In fact, he just did it again last week. His PC now reboots infinitely.

It's OK to have an anti-virus program from one vendor and a firewall program from another, but if you try to install two of either type of program, you're asking for trouble.

Dad? Is that you? I thought we talked about you staying off the provider boards.

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sgtdong3003 reads

I never said it was a "GOOD IDEA".  However, two virus programs "CAN EXIST", IF One of them is a web based virus program such as Trend Micro's Housecall or McAfee's online scan.  Sadly ? but Norton does not support an online scan.  

two anti-virus programs on the same computer running contiguously is just asking for trouble.  

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Lex Luethor2276 reads

...you Neutro, just responding to followme's post directly. As soon as I read the question about two scanners I jumped right in. I hadn't even seen your post yet. :)

Now that I think about it, you could very well be right correct. When the ingredients are:

McAffee + Norton + Dad

...it doesn't take an Evil Genius to figure out where the problem probably lies.

Does anyone know if there's a Support Group out there for People with Parents who have PCs? It's already reached the point where I don't want to pick up the phone when they call. No, it's worse than that: just the sound of the phone ringing triggers a Pavlovian-type response...to hide!

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someguynamedp2983 reads

The last time I was out to visit her, I cleaned off her machine.. which had over 1200 viruses, spywares, worms, etc. on it.  It took AdAware, TrendMicro Housecall, and serious time in the registry JUST to get it so that I could save her data and reinstall Windows!

I gave her AdAware to keep running all the time and suggested she buy an Antivirus package.. and gave her some removal tools..

And two weeks later I had to do the whole damn thing over again!  Ack!

Well, anyway.

I've tried having two antiviruses before; having one that is on continuous scan, and the second one I only use for weekly scans on Friday nights, but I found that to be too much of a hassle, when it's easier to just take some simple security precautions, like reading email in plain text so that spams don't load pictures, and turning off ActiveX on my computer since I almost never use it anyway (except for www.homestarrunner.com :)

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sgtdong3548 reads

Just get her a MAC. Less of  a headache.  and much much less viruses and spyware.

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sgtdong1891 reads

Lex, hope Superman finds you before your Dad.

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sgandolfs3559 reads

I use McAfee Virus Scan personally, also available is free and seperate program "Stinger" which can
be used if you already have a virus... link below goes to website, make up your own mind.

Related Link: Stinger

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sgtdong2654 reads

What is the catch to the Free virus programs?  

Is it the same as Microsoft's Internet Explorer, a never ending headache?

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sgandolfs3798 reads

No catch with stinger, just a free program McAfee
provides probably in hopes you will use their full
Virus Scan program.
As for Internet Explorer, have not used it in years because of bugs... use Mozilla Firefox.

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sgtdong2802 reads

Housecall is basically the same 'engine' as PC-Cillin, but relies on the web to do the scan.  No Internet CNXN, no housecall.

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