Protecting the environment in which PSCS is installed

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deebs
Feb 15, 2005
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Hi – my Win XP machine is approaching 12 months of age (aw – bless?) and it is nearing renewal time.

I’d like to protect the environment in which my licensed version of Photoshop resides.

I guess that’s just a long way to say: what are the recommended software firewall/internet security/anti-virus programs that you think I should go for?

Ta

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LenHewitt
Feb 15, 2005
If you use a NAT router, use Firebird and Thunderbird rather than IE or OE, and stay away from dubious web sites, there’s very little else you need to be concerned about. A weekly run of spybot is also worth considering.
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Daryl_Pritchard
Feb 15, 2005
My vote?

I’d go with Zonealarm Security Suite 5.5, as it avoids all the activation and subscription crap of Norton’s otherwise excellent products (ignoring SystemWorks) and addresses all categories you identified while also including Mail Frontier’s anti-spam functionality. I’ve been very pleased with the latter in comparison to Norton Anti-Spam. I don’t know much about the Computer Associates anti-virus application in the suite other than that it reportedly has been independently certified for virus detection and removal. I’m still using Norton AntiVirus 2003 and find it seems very effective at catching and blocking potential threats; whether or not it is better than the Computer Associate anti-virus application, I don’t know for sure.

Daryl
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John Joslin
Feb 15, 2005
12 months; renewal?

Renew the computer (I think you say pooter) or renew the protection?
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John Joslin
Feb 16, 2005
The standard protection these days seems to be:

Windows Firewall

Zone Alarm

AdAware

Spybot Search and Destroy

Mailwasher Pro or similar

Norton AV (or any of the rated rivals). I got Symantec corporate AV bundled with my new poo.. sorry computer

…and of course keep right away from Internet Exploder and Direct X!
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Phosphor
Feb 16, 2005
"The standard protection these days seems to be…"

Heh. I’ll stop there and shut up.
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xbytor
Feb 16, 2005
Here’s how I do it:
Linksys Router – $45
Zone Alarm (Free)
AdAware (Free)
Thunderbird (Free)
Firefox (Free)
Not running random exe files from the internet (Free)
Backups (Cost of media)

Other than a couple of spybots that AdAware nailed and I’ve _never_ been infected even though I don’t use any antivirus software. I am _very_ strict with my Zone Alarm and router configurations. I’ll probably pick up a free AV package to do an occasional scan, but you may want to go with the Zone or NAV suites.

ciao,
-X
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deebs
Feb 16, 2005
Thanks – I like the Zonealarm feature of automatically reported intrusion events to a central monitored source.

Apparently there is IE7 on the cards for summer (may be limited to SP2 & IE6x users) plus multiple engine antivirus from MS at the end of this year.

It looks like Zonealarms for sure – BTW demo’ed recent version and the advanced features such as octet blocking on declared data looks (IMHO) that they are really beginning to excel in their field of expertise.

My previous ‘pooter was infected badly once and the hassle is worth avoiding. I didn’t realise how important my data was until I couldn’t access it.

And the rudeness of those coders Tsk! Shameful! The language used in the bugged code was as naughty as the functionality it followed through.

Ah! Another BTW – I learned that MS Antispyware is gonna be free to registered windows users

Thanks again – your views are important to me
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dave_milbut
Feb 16, 2005
Apparently there is IE7 on the cards for summer (may be limited to SP2 & IE6x users) plus multiple engine antivirus from MS at the end of this year.

run as fast as you can from both. i also noted that ms spyware beta (giant software) was disabling my norton nav2002 on boot up!!! after a restart i found that i needed to go an ENable NAV! holey moley! needless to say that’s gone now.

zonealarm standard (free)
NAV2002 (updated automatically)
spybot & adaware
firefox browser
thunderbird for mail and news
apply all xp service pack and security fixes asap.

I hesitate to say it, but for those of you who MUST run IE, check out the free avant browser shell. It runs the IE browser object (so it is 100% IE compatable) in a much more secure enviornment with all kinds of things that make mozilla great like tabbed browsing, popup, ad, image, server blocking, script and active x disabling etc.

I first read about it in an extremetech.com article comparing different browsers and as my work won’t let us use mozilla (blocked at the firewall) this is the next best thing. i’ve been using it at work for about a month. quite nice, but still slower than mozilla.

<http://www.avantbrowser.com/>
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deebs
Feb 16, 2005
Thanks Dave

I will bear all of this in mind and with 20 or so days to go I think I will switch brand loyalty to ZoneAlarms

Using Reg Monitor shows that my present anti-virus/firewall arrangement is making a lot of use of the CPU. I suppose it keeps it busy though

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