Re: FN-FORUM: pc firewall software

date posted 7th January 2005 16:13

thanks for all the responses, have a few more questions though.
I ran the free version of spysweeper which found 65 bits of
spyware/adware! no virus or trojans, though. he's running w2k.

oPless wrote:

>My recommendation, get a (cheap) hardware nat firewall, use cash to
>buy/reg adaware or similar, and decent antivirus s/w.
>
are these hardware firewalls easy to set up? im trying to prod him into
dumping the aol and getting bb through zen and i know they sell hardware
firewalls when you sign up so im guessing they'll help him a bit.

Dom Latter wrote:

>On Tuesday 04 Jan 2005 2:10 pm, chris greenway wrote:
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>My recommended install is:
>ZoneAlarm (freebie, *not* the Pro or Suite products which try to be clever
> and fail, allegedly)
>SpybotSD
>Ad-Aware
>AVG anti-virus
>HijackThis
>
>The last is there for use by a techie when things go wrong, but should be
>downloaded and installed *before* the machine becomes unusable... all
>of them are pretty straightforward to install and run.
>
>Most problems can be avoided by installing Firefox as the default browser
>and just about anything in preference to Outlook / OE.
>
>
>
will send him all of these except hijack this.

what is the correct order to run these, im guessing

disconnect computer from net
remove adware
install firewall
pray


any other instructions/recommendations? (other than get a mac and turn
firewall on)

tia, chris