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Computer Security
Topic Started: Mar 20 2008, 08:09:50 PM (262 Views)
jacob	Mar 20 2008, 08:09:50 PM Post #1
Barracks Owner Posts: 116 Group: Members Member #1,933 Joined: December 24, 2007	Some talk in World 2 forums has had me worried, so I put together a quick list for you windows users. If you use a Windows computer you need to protect it from the internet. The following is by no means intended to be an end-all be all list. Nor is it one that will last forever. See the date of this post? If it has been longer than a year (today is 20March2008), I'd do some research to make sure these are still good solutions. Computer technologies don't stop. Firefox: (mozilla.com) Web Browser. The best thing you can do for your computer is not use Internet Explorer. Most viruses/ad/spyware comes in to your machine using exploits through IE. This is _not_ to say that Firefox is immune to this, or that this is the only way to be infected. This is a simple first step at protecting your machine. AVG (Grisoft.com) Anti-virus. High quality, it will scan your system, scan incomming email and help clean and quarrentine infected files. Adaware (lavasoftusa.com) Free. This removes ad/spyware from your computer. You know that random pop-up window that appears when you aren't even in Internet Explorer? this will help with that. Spybot Seek and Destroy (safer-networking.org) Search and Destroy () Free, use with adaware. Where Adaware shines with adware, spybot shines with spyware. Spyware is used to collect information from your computer and send it to another computer. This is usually bad. Backup, backup, for the love of all that is holy, backup! caveat emptor! Becareful of what you download! Where did you find it? Is the site reliable? Has the software been reviewed on other sites? Check these things out. A bad software download can cripple your machine. Seriously. Back up. Get an external hard drive. Get a thumb drive. Burn CD's or DVD's. Print them out! Imagine this, if i came in and took a hammer to your hard drive, what would you lose? what would you need? Now take those things and back them up. I am a Mac user. The luxury of that at this time is I don't need any of these things. Linux too provides more security than a Windows machine. The trade-off? You would need to learn a new operating system. Not all your software can be found (and most would need to be repurchased). edit: Another one that was sent to me http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/20/lo...t-sysinspector/
	IYAOYAS


egg	Mar 20 2008, 08:49:50 PM Post #2
[Mafia] Don Posts: 1,155 Group: Global Moderators Member #1,206 Joined: May 28, 2007 Gender Other	Best advice: Be paranoid.
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Gothmog	Mar 20 2008, 08:55:49 PM Post #3
Mighty Overlord of all the World™ Posts: 422 Group: Members Member #88 Joined: October 31, 2006 Gender Orc	Meh. Anyone that can get a virus with User Account Control on is some kind of God. Gothmog is sure Gruumsh could achieve such a feat. Mighty Gothmog, of course, can't cope with the annoyance of something that pops up whenever you open Computer Management, so has turned it off, but still.
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rikin	Mar 21 2008, 08:17:54 PM Post #4
Head Administrator / Owner of Inselkampf.com Forums Posts: 1,150 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: October 17, 2006 Gender Male Alliance [reddit]	I think that this an important issue so im gonna pin this topic.



Cosgrave	Mar 24 2008, 04:53:04 AM Post #5
Smarter in Digg Posts: 739 Group: Members Member #1,185 Joined: May 20, 2007 Gender Male Alliance ______	I would defionally reccomend AVG and nortan uses should switch...
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Cthulhu	Mar 24 2008, 05:45:56 PM Post #6
Orc Admin Posts: 170 Group: Members Member #193 Joined: November 14, 2006	Gothmog Mar 20 2008, 02:55 PM Meh. Anyone that can get a virus with User Account Control on is some kind of God. Gothmog is sure Gruumsh could achieve such a feat. Mighty Gothmog, of course, can't cope with the annoyance of something that pops up whenever you open Computer Management, so has turned it off, but still. Pfft, I clean viruses (mostly spyware) off Vista machines more than I do XP machines now! Vista is a steaming pile of Orc poo...
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rikin	Mar 24 2008, 06:46:56 PM Post #7
Head Administrator / Owner of Inselkampf.com Forums Posts: 1,150 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: October 17, 2006 Gender Male Alliance [reddit]	I would recommend not to go on any bad sites! Basically, go on safe porn!



conquer987	Mar 24 2008, 11:16:19 PM Post #8
BeBopBop Posts: 198 Group: Members Member #1,876 Joined: November 25, 2007	rikin Mar 24 2008, 01:46 PM I would recommend not to go on any bad sites! Basically, go on safe porn! Or better yet, don't go on porn at all. Abstinence is the best protection
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