: Anti-Virus / Anti-Spyware / Firewall : When To Use or Not to Use

Just as for any cardinal rule of Using Security Applications
- Be sure you have enough or ample MB RAM for its usage.
- Be sure it comes from a respectable company.
- Be sure the product comes with a healthy support from your location.
- Be sure to read the manual before using one.

One Anti-Virus & Firewall per one system only! and Anti-spyware well at least use 2-3 just make sure its not service powered ( uses real time monitoring ). You don't want to be like Fort Knox!, system crawling like a turtle with a 60lbs bakcpack and most of all be sure it is user friendly one.


Most of the Security Applications today specific to Anti-Viruses they come in subscription, some of them are just jumping to the merging their products with a lot of perks. ( anti-spam / pop up blockers / phishing filters / website advisor and a lot more ). Just remember that their efficiency comes from the research behind them Viruses, spyware, malware, rootkits and etc etc. can change and mutate to something else in split seconds.


" No Security Application can say they are 100% Efficient"



Drop by this site for you to compare and research before buying one click me

Vundo Infection - Evolution

Mcafee... Norton.... AVG.... etc etc
not one of the Leading Antivirus in the world can remove this
notorious worm and trojan. Recently it was retrofitted to be a rootkit to deploy Ad markets for multiple companies ( in particular WinAnti-virus Pro 2007, Winfixer and WinAnti-spyware ).

Fall of 2003 when I first saw this infection as a real trojan and with 2 months to the date it became the real carrier of Ads. How did one stay to be the best? almost all spyware and malware or adware get to resolved by Security Software - but not this guy.

Just my thoughts ( make it 10 cents ), I would highly commend such adversary as the creator of vundo. I would add that - you just joined the rank of one of my challenging codes to break.

MSN Messenger Infected w/ Scripting Worm!

Sample of this rising concern in MSN Messenger User Community
this is from one of the Anti-Virus Product Forum Site...

http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsOneCare/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1687267&SiteID=2

Get it fixed using this

Go to Normal Mode
Goto SpyBot advanced mode (download SpyBot if you havn't already) and then goto tools and system startup. Untick everything.
Reboot into normal mode once. (important, do not skip step out)
Reboot into safe mode and scan your computer with SpyBot (I know it works with SpyBot so I reccomend it but you might be able to use others) and then remove any viruses detected
Go back to the system startup menu of SpyBot and delete everything that has re-ticked itself, as this will be part of the virus.
Open up my computer and C drive. Click: Tools -> folder options -> View -> Tick the box marked "Show hidden files" and untick the box marked "Hide system files" press yes on the message that appears and then press apply
From the C drive open Windows -> System32 and arrange icons into the order they have been modified. Towards the bottom of the list of folders should be a folder with a random list of letters, this folder should be a hidden folder. Open the folder, if lsass.exe is stored inside then you have the right one and you must delete this folder, if not then try other folders with random names until you find the right one. (name varies depending on computer)
Now that you have deleted the folder with the random name, reboot into normal mode and log on. Some error messages should pop up saying that lsass.exe was not found. That is good because you just deleted it.
It isn't the genuine version of lsass but the virus! Now press Start -> Run -> Type: "regedit" and press enter -> Press Edit -> Find -> and type Lsass
Whenever the registry editor finds a file with lsass in it, hover your mouse cursor over it, if it is a file stored in the folder you deleted, then delete it from the registry, if not don't. Keep pressing F3 to go through every entry of lsass in the registry, deleting all the ones that link to the folder you deleted. Congratulations, your computer is clean.

Computing Today, Are we really secured

Do you have an Anti-Virus? Anti-spyware perhaps?
Do you have the latest updates?
Do you have a Firewall?
How did you know if your computer is virus & spyware free?
Are you using the best computer security ever known?

How did you know? Who told you so?
......a friend, your neighbor or was it a stranger over the web.

Is you computer slowing down?
......I takes twice the amount of time to login?

Are there advertising pop-ups?
......What are they? happen to click one of them? toobad!

Or is it just that the product you know that will and would
protect you is just not working?

Worst:
Is your credit card bills just right?
......having a problem signing in to one of those banking site
that you use to punch in your credit card number to pay online?

Or is it just weird programs you dont know you have is...
Asking you to purchase it?... youre about to be scammed

Or are you already a victim? of our own demise....
Are we really secured with our computing way life? What do you think?

If you would like to know more give me a buzz jfcoel@hotmail.com