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NitroNutter · 07-07-2005, 09:22

Norton used to be the best, since around 2002 it became the worst, Warning to all who use norton and macafee, while these run updaters they change file ownerships of the entire system, if the update fails at some points it is possible and has happened that ownerships and permisions were not restored and the end user is lockedout of the system. My father in law is still recovering from an instance of this that happened several months ago.

I use spybot S & D, M$ antispy as its free. Avast and avg combined seem to be quite good together. No need to let AVG run daily.

M$ xp firewall is ok for application blocking, best bet is put a slave system between you and the net, ie linux using the likes of shorewall for protection and routing. With a home setup you can just configure a linux system to drop everything and add above the few permitted rules you need

07-07-2005, 09:22	#35
NitroNutter Inactive Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: <-- Not All there ? Knock Knock Services: You cannot afford me!!! Posts: 1,139	Re: Microsoft Antispyware / Norton IS --- PAHH !!! Norton used to be the best, since around 2002 it became the worst, Warning to all who use norton and macafee, while these run updaters they change file ownerships of the entire system, if the update fails at some points it is possible and has happened that ownerships and permisions were not restored and the end user is lockedout of the system. My father in law is still recovering from an instance of this that happened several months ago. I use spybot S & D, M$ antispy as its free. Avast and avg combined seem to be quite good together. No need to let AVG run daily. M$ xp firewall is ok for application blocking, best bet is put a slave system between you and the net, ie linux using the likes of shorewall for protection and routing. With a home setup you can just configure a linux system to drop everything and add above the few permitted rules you need