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Martin_1962

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Favourite PC utilities
« on: 27 April 2008, 23:27:07 »
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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Re: Favourite PC utilities
« Reply #1 on: 27 April 2008, 23:29:28 »
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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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« Reply #2 on: 27 April 2008, 23:33:02 »
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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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Debs.

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Re: Favourite PC utilities
« Reply #3 on: 27 April 2008, 23:34:25 »
Tweak UI & Image-Resizer Powertools (Microsoft Download).

FreeRamXP.....PC Wizard 2008 & ScreenshotCaptor (all freeware: "Filehippo" Download)
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Taxi_Driver

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Re: Favourite PC utilities
« Reply #4 on: 27 April 2008, 23:36:18 »
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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Re: Favourite PC utilities
« Reply #5 on: 27 April 2008, 23:53:24 »
ones for me will be...

portage...

and thats all other than the usual apps (firefox, pidgin, oo, monodevelop, g++)
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Re: Favourite PC utilities
« Reply #6 on: 28 April 2008, 08:31:49 »
My favourites have to be, Hammer, How Far Can You Throw and Size 9

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Re: Favourite PC utilities
« Reply #7 on: 28 April 2008, 08:41:00 »
Sammy Sledge used to sort all my PC problems....   ....need to buy the upgrade to V2 ;D
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Re: Favourite PC utilities
« Reply #8 on: 28 April 2008, 08:45:45 »
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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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Re: Favourite PC utilities
« Reply #9 on: 28 April 2008, 09:17:07 »
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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.

Norton do make damned good antivirus software IME.

Kevin

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Re: Favourite PC utilities
« Reply #10 on: 28 April 2008, 09:18:38 »
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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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Martin_1962

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Re: Favourite PC utilities
« Reply #11 on: 28 April 2008, 10:24:33 »
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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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Martin_1962

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Re: Favourite PC utilities
« Reply #12 on: 28 April 2008, 10:27:43 »
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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Re: Favourite PC utilities
« Reply #13 on: 28 April 2008, 10:30:25 »
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

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Re: Favourite PC utilities
« Reply #14 on: 28 April 2008, 11:09:07 »
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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