Hello I have a computer and i am paranoided about hackers and viruses almost to paronoid. On my system I have Norton Antivirus, Norton Firewall, Ad aware se, spybot search and destroy, and window washer. With all the protection though recently i had a "trojan downloader File" in my "internet recent download folder" Norton notified me and said it was there, but also said access was retricted to the file. So i pulled up the folder, scanned it with nortan, nortan said it was there and quanteined it. a question i have with the firewall is why didn't it prevent that from happening. also with the programs i have on my computer now is it safe as far as security wise goes, Am i using to much software , the rong software or not enough software. Which anti virus and firewall are really good, also is my software good sofftware for eliminating spyware? What are the keys to a security safe system?
I think I would go with AVG 7 Free Edition instead of Norton. The resident shield doesn't bog down your system as much as the Norton one. AVG 7 Free Edition http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 Firewalls keep people from connecting to arbitrary ports on your system, but they don't prevent scumware from coming in through the browser. You have to periodically scan your system with a bunch of tools to know what's on it. Here's a few more links to freeware: Spybot Search & Destroy http://spybot.eon.net.au/ http://www.safer-networking.org/ http://spybot.safer-networking.de/ SpyBot S&D guide http://www.chem.wisc.edu/~network/spybot/ Ad-Aware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ http://www.lavasoft.nu/ Spyware Blaster http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html http://www.net-integration.net/tools/spywareblaster.html "46 best XP freewares" site: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm
ok so basicly get rid of nortan antivirus and install avg antivirus, but kepp windows firewall and download the othe links you listed?
