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Old 11-25-2003, 10:00 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally posted by secretCow@Nov 24 2003, 07:46 AM
anyone who thinks Norton is a comprehensive AV (antivirus) program is a noob.

no offense but norton catches "virus" only. norton is AV which means it doesn't pick up "trojans" softwares like keyloggers etc.

Bullguard is good but it doesn't pick up all the trojans either.

i am currently running
- norton (to pick up the "big" or famous viruses) its an ad hoc approach
- Bullguard ( for pickup 30% of trojans) and some firewall
- Sygate firewall (firewall only).


If you're using Broadband then you have to run a firewall 24/7. with broadband it takes 2 second to download a big-Ass 2mb virus/trojan/keylogger all in one. while on 56k at least you get some warning by the slow connection.

and a good idea is to format your PC once every 3 month too. because some trojans/virus will change your registery and disable/bypass your AV and FW softwares.


Hope that helps
SCow
Just out of curiosity, how does being on 56k give you 'some warning'?
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