[ale] Seeking ways to getting around spyware on Windows

[Christopher R. Curzio]

> i have never had a good experience with any Norton product.

I have. Norton Commander and Norton Utilities for DOS were both excellent.


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Thus Spake joh6nn <joh6nn at hotpop.com>:
Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:27:19 +0200


> Spybot and AdAware have both been mentioned, as has the Norton Suite. 
> i'm an advocate for Spybot and AdAware, but against all things Norton; i
> have never had a good experience with any Norton product.  There are
> plenty of free anti-virus offerings that are not only comparable, but
> arguably better. i install AntiVir (www.free-av.com) on the machines of
> those i help, but that's just personal preference.
> 
> i also strongly recommend Kerio Personal Firewall 2.14; there are newer
> versions available, but i don't think they're as good as 2.14.  i'll let
> you make your own call on that (though if you can't find it elsewhere, i
> have a copy of 2.14).
> 
> you'll also want JavaCool's SpywareBlaster, which blocks known activex
> problems.
> 
> a good hosts file, complete with windows installer, is available here:
> http://www.everythingisnt.com/hosts.html, and is updated fairly
> regularly.
> 
> it's also good to keep in mind that using the regedt32 tool (not
> regedit, the other one), you can make registry keys read-only, which can
> be a great preventative measure.
> 
> Spoofstick (http://www.spoofstick.com/) anti-phishing extension for
> Firefox, and also a bayesian Firefox porn filter (not really
> anti-spyware, but a good idea regardless):
> http://singlepointnetworks.com/ffext/blockxxx/
> 
> i'm not sure if Yahoo's talk feature is available from 3rd party
> clients, but i feel it's definitely worth investigating, as both
> Trillian and Gaim have a much better history than Aol's clients; i don't
> know if Yahoo's clients have been as bad.
> 
> i can't think of anything else at the moment, but those are at least
> most of the steps i usually go through for windows users
> 
> -joh6nn
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