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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Martin_1962 on 27 April 2008, 23:27:07
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Mine are Adaware and Spybot S&D, with HijackThis as an extremely useful tool.
Been playing with ccleaner as well.
Found two usefull built into windows are services.msc and regedit.exe, IF you know what you are doing.
Managed to wipe out the last little bit of a Norton infestation this weekend.
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Mine are Adaware and Spybot S&D, with HijackThis as an extremely useful tool.
Been playing with ccleaner as well.
Found two usefull built into windows are services.msc and regedit.exe, IF you know what you are doing.
Managed to wipe out the last little bit of a Norton infestation this weekend.
And extremely dangerous if you you don't. Sometimes a little information is worse than none.
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Mine are Adaware and Spybot S&D, with HijackThis as an extremely useful tool.
Been playing with ccleaner as well.
Found two usefull built into windows are services.msc and regedit.exe, IF you know what you are doing.
Managed to wipe out the last little bit of a Norton infestation this weekend.
And extremely dangerous if you you don't. Sometimes a little information is worse than none.
Agreed.....im behind a firewall.........never had a prob with virus's/spyware/etc......... :y
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Tweak UI & Image-Resizer Powertools (Microsoft Download).
FreeRamXP.....PC Wizard 2008 & ScreenshotCaptor (all freeware: "Filehippo" Download)
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Shud add altho.......my firewall on router isnt prob the best........my AV hasnt found a virus since i come remember (and it updates every day)
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ones for me will be...
portage...
and thats all other than the usual apps (firefox, pidgin, oo, monodevelop, g++)
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My favourites have to be, Hammer, How Far Can You Throw and Size 9
;D
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Sammy Sledge used to sort all my PC problems.... ....need to buy the upgrade to V2 ;D
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Mine are Adaware and Spybot S&D, with HijackThis as an extremely useful tool.
Been playing with ccleaner as well.
Found two usefull built into windows are services.msc and regedit.exe, IF you know what you are doing.
Managed to wipe out the last little bit of a Norton infestation this weekend.
And extremely dangerous if you you don't. Sometimes a little information is worse than none.
Agreed.....im behind a firewall.........never had a prob with virus's/spyware/etc......... :y
6yrs running internet facing machines at home (with RIPE addresses, not NAT'd), only ever had 2 hacks - one was a VNC vulnerability on the media center (was happily watching a film when a DOS window popped up and someone tried FTP'd some files (failed, as FTP blocked to that machine at firewall)), the other was a SQL injection vulnerability in one of my own coded websites :-[ (only vulnerable once a password was cracked).
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Mine are Adaware and Spybot S&D, with HijackThis as an extremely useful tool.
Been playing with ccleaner as well.
Found two usefull built into windows are services.msc and regedit.exe, IF you know what you are doing.
Managed to wipe out the last little bit of a Norton infestation this weekend.
Norton do make damned good antivirus software IME.
Kevin
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Mine are Adaware and Spybot S&D, with HijackThis as an extremely useful tool.
Been playing with ccleaner as well.
Found two usefull built into windows are services.msc and regedit.exe, IF you know what you are doing.
Managed to wipe out the last little bit of a Norton infestation this weekend.
Norton do make damned good antivirus software IME.
Kevin
;D ;D ;D
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Mine are Adaware and Spybot S&D, with HijackThis as an extremely useful tool.
Been playing with ccleaner as well.
Found two usefull built into windows are services.msc and regedit.exe, IF you know what you are doing.
Managed to wipe out the last little bit of a Norton infestation this weekend.
Norton do make damned good antivirus software IME.
Kevin
All in all I think I removed over 4 or more sessions around 400 registry entries just for NAV.
Go to BT message boards NAV support - say AVG!
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Quite fun looking up every service and seeing what it does, some get deleted and some get put to manual.
One thing I use 4OD/BBC I player occasionally (4 or 5 times), time to blag free 4OD of BT Vision I think, all the Kontiki rubbish is stopped and manual.
I examine all startups as carefully as well.
Saves reinstalling Windows
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im running adaware se pro, spybot, sbyware blaster, avg antivirus and zone alarm security suite. i have been using this set up for a couple of yrs now, never had any probs with it
also have clean up and system wiper to clean pc up
try this site
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
richie
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Like my mailwasher for helping me get rid of up to 1000 spam emails a day and Synctoy from Microsoft for a backup program.
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Quite fun looking up every service and seeing what it does, some get deleted and some get put to manual.
One thing I use 4OD/BBC I player occasionally (4 or 5 times), time to blag free 4OD of BT Vision I think, all the Kontiki rubbish is stopped and manual.
I examine all startups as carefully as well.
Saves reinstalling Windows
surprised its taken you this long to delve into services, esp in XP, being old fashioned MS ebable everything.
Group Policy is often a more robust way to kill services (an app running under a user who logs on with admin rights (a big no-no, but every dimwit does it >:() can restart anything it likes...
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Quite fun looking up every service and seeing what it does, some get deleted and some get put to manual.
One thing I use 4OD/BBC I player occasionally (4 or 5 times), time to blag free 4OD of BT Vision I think, all the Kontiki rubbish is stopped and manual.
I examine all startups as carefully as well.
Saves reinstalling Windows
surprised its taken you this long to delve into services, esp in XP, being old fashioned MS ebable everything.
Group Policy is often a more robust way to kill services (an app running under a user who logs on with admin rights (a big no-no, but every dimwit does it >:() can restart anything it likes...
Played around before but not needed to go so mad. At work as long as my PC does what it is told I am OK
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Quite fun looking up every service and seeing what it does, some get deleted and some get put to manual.
One thing I use 4OD/BBC I player occasionally (4 or 5 times), time to blag free 4OD of BT Vision I think, all the Kontiki rubbish is stopped and manual.
I examine all startups as carefully as well.
Saves reinstalling Windows
surprised its taken you this long to delve into services, esp in XP, being old fashioned MS ebable everything.
Group Policy is often a more robust way to kill services (an app running under a user who logs on with admin rights (a big no-no, but every dimwit does it >:() can restart anything it likes...
Played around before but not needed to go so mad. At work as long as my PC does what it is told I am OK
Thats not goo dfor security ;)
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I always seem to make a hash of group policy! :-[
Wireshark is a useful little app for me.
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i tend to be running lots of memory intensive graphics and audio authoring applications for work (and occassionally play!) and have found this little blighter is pretty handy, maxmem
basically you can use it to flush your pc's memory to free up space as you're working. alternatively it can be set to automatically detect when you're down on space and it can flush out the memory for you.
nifty. and free.
AnalogX MaxMem is a realtime physical memory management program that automatically ensures that you always have as much physical memory available as possible. It does this by allowing you to set minimum amounts of memory to be made available under certain circumstance, and then passively monitoring how much system resources are being used. It runs in the system tray, and also shows you exactly how much memory you have available, plus graphs how you've been using memory over the last 60 seconds!
http://www.analogx.com/CONTENTS/download/system/maxmem.htm
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using (and happy with) ad-aware, avast, regcleaner, hijack-this and top favorite powerquest partition magic pro. less pleased with pc tools spyware doctor (still using though), avg antivirus and zone alarm.
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My favorite (and nastiest) utility, is a little Java prog called Spamfryer, it lets you get a little retribution on malicious phishing sites who try to get bank details etc. ;)
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Quite fun looking up every service and seeing what it does, some get deleted and some get put to manual.
One thing I use 4OD/BBC I player occasionally (4 or 5 times), time to blag free 4OD of BT Vision I think, all the Kontiki rubbish is stopped and manual.
I examine all startups as carefully as well.
Saves reinstalling Windows
surprised its taken you this long to delve into services, esp in XP, being old fashioned MS ebable everything.
Group Policy is often a more robust way to kill services (an app running under a user who logs on with admin rights (a big no-no, but every dimwit does it >:() can restart anything it likes...
Played around before but not needed to go so mad. At work as long as my PC does what it is told I am OK
Thats not goo dfor security ;)
My work PC is pretty secure I don't care that it is open as only I use it, secure on hte internet side too.
Home is quite secure with AV and firewall