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[Guide] Securing your PC - Page 2
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JohnColtrane
Australia4813 Posts
whoa john is a siege tank now | ||
Hyde
Australia14568 Posts
Thanks for those tips though, they're really helpful and are great reminders for those who are always thinking about securing their PC. I didn't know about that DEP thing either. | ||
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prOxi.swAMi
Australia3091 Posts
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Plexa
Aotearoa39261 Posts
But now I feel safer =] Thanks R1CH! | ||
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7Strife
United States104 Posts
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R1CH
Netherlands10340 Posts
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R1CH
Netherlands10340 Posts
On January 11 2010 13:22 7Strife wrote: I'm an idiot Congratulations, you probably have a rootkit. | ||
alffla
Hong Kong20321 Posts
and my norton antirvirus kept spammign me for subscription or whatever so i guess it was time i removed it lawl D: | ||
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da_head
Canada3350 Posts
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Saturnize
United States2473 Posts
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alffla
Hong Kong20321 Posts
 lol well i dont even know what they did with my computer but they're gone now bwahawha | ||
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
On January 11 2010 15:57 Saturnize wrote: All i need is Microsoft Security Essentials. My computer hasn't had any problems for the longest time now. Yea, it's actually very good. I'm surprised so many people don't have it installed. | ||
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proberecall
United States104 Posts
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CaptainPlatypus
United States852 Posts
In particular, the point about "if you're running software you don't trust, you've already lost" is an important one that a lot of people overlook. | ||
zatic
Zurich15328 Posts
It's amazing how people still refuse to enable Auto Update 12 years after that Windows 98 incident. It's by far the easiest and most effective measure you can take to secure your PC. Windows update, NAT, common sense and you are 99.9% safe. Actually the points about Adobe products are very good, especially about the browser plugins. I can recommend Noscript for Firefox as well which disables all Flash / Reader / etc plugins by default. | ||
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madnessman
United States1581 Posts
On January 09 2010 18:00 Disregard wrote: NOD32 had almost 100% detection rate on the boards, but that was awhile ago. It wasn't NOD32. I tried using NOD32 for a while but I didn't cleanly uninstall AVG so I kept on getting BSODs. Being too lazy to go through the registry and shit, I just uninstalled NOD32 and went back to AVG. | ||
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writer22816
United States5775 Posts
I know it may seem like common sense to a lot of people including me, but apparently it must not be that common if people can have antivirus + firewall and still get viruses while others may not have anything and still never get infected. | ||
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Itachii
Poland12466 Posts
and it does work,online scans don't show anything and when something trys to infect, it does get blocked. should i seriously turn window's one on? | ||
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SchOOl_VicTIm
Greece2394 Posts
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Mystlord
United States10264 Posts
On January 09 2010 17:34 R1CH wrote: Adobe software in particular seems to have a very poor history - Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, Adobe Air have all had exploits that could allow your system to be compromised by visiting a webpage. Worse still, many of these products don't auto update so you have to rely on 3rd party assistance (Secunia PSI) or do it manually. On January 09 2010 17:34 R1CH wrote: Adobe software in particular seems to have a very poor history - Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, Adobe Air On January 09 2010 17:34 R1CH wrote: Adobe software in particular seems to have a very poor history On January 09 2010 17:34 R1CH wrote: Adobe Makes me rage so hard. Aside from that, R1CH is absolutely right in that it's better and easier to prevent anything from getting onto your computer than trying to get it off. I'd bold literally everything R1CH said because it's all vital. Besides from the anti-virus, you can get away with disabling DEP, but only if you have compatibility issues. There's no real reason to turn it off. NoScript is GOD. Everyone get it. I've pretty much stopped using any sort of anti-spyware programs now because I have literally everything that's untrusted blocked. | ||
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