Secure my comp for me.

[Jason]

My current comp has nothing for protection.

No firewall, no AV, no pop-up blockers, no spybot, nothing.

Can you recommend everything I should get (Kazaa hehe) for my new comp when it gets setup?

I need the best of a:

Firewall
Anti-Virus
Popup blocker
Anti-spyware
Anti-adware

 

[Zeroth]

FIREWALL: ZoneAlarm
ANTI_VIRUS: Norton Anti Virus
POPUP BLOCKER: Norton Internet Security (second firewall as well)
ANTI-SPYWARE: SpyBot
ANTI-ADWARE: Adaware 6

 

[Sicloan]

you dont need anything besides a popup blocker.

if you have a router your set.

 

[Dopple_Of_Stalin]

On one the PC mags I got it had a bunch of apps. Zone alarm, Norton 2004 trial, Adware and a few others. But yeah, get those.

 

[x42bn6]

I'm sorry, I just find that hard to believe.....

For anti-virus, there's something free online, Avant-something, free and free unlimited virus updates and not a CPU resource hogger.

 

[Dopple_Of_Stalin]

Was that at me? The apps where all demo's of course, but they are stupid at that. No registry files, re-install. Brand new

 

[Jason]

Zone Alarm caused all animations online to not be animated, but still images, so I got rid of that. As for the others, just as I expected. Thanks guys

 

[jd-inflames]

Originally posted by Jason
My current comp has nothing for protection.

No firewall, no AV, no pop-up blockers, no spybot, nothing.

Can you recommend everything I should get (Kazaa hehe) for my new comp when it gets setup?

I need the best of a:

Firewall
Anti-Virus
Popup blocker
Anti-spyware
Anti-adware

Firewall: Not important. Unless you really start to feel threatened, Windows XP's integrated firewall should be enough...I mean, its 128-bit isn't it?

Anti-Virus: Norton Anti-Virus 2002-3 (Stay away from 2004...gay)

Popup Blocker: I use Avant Browser, so I don't worry about it

Anti-spyware: I don't download anything stupid, so I don't have that problem

Anti-adware: Ad-aware

 

[Jason]

Is there an easy to turn off firewall I can get?

I mean, turning on/off the firewall in XP is bothersome, since I am constantly needing it to turn off for Direct Connect and File Sharing through AIM..

 

[jd-inflames]

I've never had to =/ But if you use Zonealarm or Norton's Firewall, the CP is in the bottom right hand side of your display, so it is very simple do disable.

 

[CuStOm-OwNaGe]

pop up blocker = Mozilla... (www.mozilla.org) best browser out there... but get firefox

firewall = No need...

AV = Norton

ASpyware = Spybot Search and Destroy ( http://download.com.com/3000-8022-10194058.html?tag=lst-0-2 )

AAdware = Adaware