How to never get a virus, or become victim of drive-by spyware installs, and how to avoid a gagillion popups. For FREE.. no garbage 3rd party programs full of spyware masking themselves as an Adware remover
[#1] .. Use Mozilla. (Free)
Go to www.mozilla.org and d/l Mozilla FireFox. Make that your primary browser
Go to www.mozilla.org and d/l Thunderbird, use that instead of Outlook Express
In Thunderbird, turn off javascript for msgs, turn off 'image previewing'.
Now, 99.9% of any potential problems are fixed, since you won't fall victim to ActiveX spyware/viruses anymore.
[#2] .. Use AVG Anti-Virus (Free)
www.grisoft.com i do believe, get the free no BS version. Yay.
[#3] .. Either manually configure every port to be filtered or use Zone Alarm (Free)
google.com for Zone Alarm.. get the free version.. omgomg
[#4].. Use Spybot Search x Destroy(yes, FREE)
Use ad-aware by Lavasoft
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
The downside to this, is you still have to use IE to run Windows update, but who cares that's low risk. I use the above combo on a Windows 2003 server, and I have never, ever had a virus or a spyware problem. I also d/l programs off Kazaa ++ all the time, wareZ/videos off UseNET (high risk) and visit all sorts of hax0r wannabe 2600 sites yet mozilla does a great job of not allowing tons of popups and automatic d/ls.
Another bonus is somebody wrote a script for FireFox that will virtually block ALL ADS. (serious!) .. totally free. It's like surfing the internet circa 1994 ..
I load up a page and the ad simply isn't a vacant box, it takes it out all together and squished the html into a proper site. YAY
[#1] .. Use Mozilla. (Free)
Go to www.mozilla.org and d/l Mozilla FireFox. Make that your primary browser
Go to www.mozilla.org and d/l Thunderbird, use that instead of Outlook Express
In Thunderbird, turn off javascript for msgs, turn off 'image previewing'.
Now, 99.9% of any potential problems are fixed, since you won't fall victim to ActiveX spyware/viruses anymore.
[#2] .. Use AVG Anti-Virus (Free)
www.grisoft.com i do believe, get the free no BS version. Yay.
[#3] .. Either manually configure every port to be filtered or use Zone Alarm (Free)
google.com for Zone Alarm.. get the free version.. omgomg
[#4].. Use Spybot Search x Destroy(yes, FREE)
Use ad-aware by Lavasoft
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
The downside to this, is you still have to use IE to run Windows update, but who cares that's low risk. I use the above combo on a Windows 2003 server, and I have never, ever had a virus or a spyware problem. I also d/l programs off Kazaa ++ all the time, wareZ/videos off UseNET (high risk) and visit all sorts of hax0r wannabe 2600 sites yet mozilla does a great job of not allowing tons of popups and automatic d/ls.
Another bonus is somebody wrote a script for FireFox that will virtually block ALL ADS. (serious!) .. totally free. It's like surfing the internet circa 1994 ..
I load up a page and the ad simply isn't a vacant box, it takes it out all together and squished the html into a proper site. YAY