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| Victim | FredRedHog |
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   Registered Member #987 Joined: Sat Apr 26 08, 11:02PMYour Location: Liverpool Posts: 12 | Some good info their thanks. Protect ones-self can be akey to success.  But ive just bought Norton which has some good software, so that fullfills 4) some common sense  Fmhogan | ||
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burn all N0obS  Registered Member #445 Joined: Tue Oct 16 07, 05:54PMYour Location: Acworth, Georgia!! Posts: 2724 |   | ||
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| Teamjobby || Andy |
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TeamJobby FTW   Registered Member #439 Joined: Sat Oct 13 07, 11:08PMYour Location: Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland Posts: 508 | Victim | FredRedHog wrote ... Some good info their thanks. Protect ones-self can be akey to success. But ive just bought Norton which has some good software, so that fullfills 4) some common sense Nooooooooooooo not norton :s u'll have problems wen it runs out lol    | ||
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Antonkn3  Registered Member #1020 Joined: Thu May 08 08, 09:36PMYour Location: Horby Posts: 22 | thx jim its healpful to see waht cind of portection others use and that way get a beter sens of what is rubbish and what is good..... i use . and its free as well havent hade any probles at all whit it .....antivir_workstation_win7u_en_h. And the statisk pages are realy somthing . i am inresst ..y am going to truy to geht allot beter . becuasxe it dosent look good. About blondie whit here "g 32"..its abit confiusing to me the fackt that she is so jumpi on the topic off breasts. and tittis its liek she likes to show them of..orsomthing.. but thosent mater to me i am not her hosband so..from my point of vieu..she can do what ever she likes..and i am happy for muttsnuts..about having suck a well equipt whife...well y well get on playing again se you al in game;-))) ohh befor y forget "get my sealf in to team chat "??? how do i do it??..thx jim Hi all as you al know i am a noob  | ||
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| |UKMD| Auth3ntic |
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no make up! Registered Member #1538 Joined: Mon Dec 01 08, 10:22PMPosts: 524 | CCleaner rocks you definately need that in your life.  In fact the makers of CCleaner (Piriform) have another 2 handy little free apps that i fully recommend: Defraggler - A great free defragging app. and: Recuva - A quality free file recovery tool. Get them now everybody  | ||
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| |UKMD|MegaLolz |
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MegaN00b Registered Member #1416 Joined: Tue Sep 30 08, 08:20PMPosts: 109 | MOGGIEX FTW!!!! saved my but cheeks  It Doesn't Work... | ||
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| |UKMD| Joe xD |
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tmp nubcake Registered Member #1127 Joined: Sun Jun 22 08, 11:05AMYour Location: Glasgow Posts: 679 | Fourteen.  come to the TMP, only it can save you. | ||
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| UKMD :.MajoR.: |
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I will eat your soul  Registered Member #143 Joined: Wed Apr 25 07, 09:24PMYour Location: Serbia - Belgrade Posts: 10611 | |UKMD| Joe xD wrote ... Fourteen. I hunt your counting   | ||
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 Registered Member #1397 Joined: Thu Sep 25 08, 08:06PMPosts: 77 | I paid out for Bitdefender Total Security 2009, has everything. | ||
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| |UKMD| Intimidation |
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  Registered Member #1765 Joined: Sat Feb 28 09, 12:36PMYour Location: London, UK Posts: 313 | I've got AVG and heard it filters out search results that are potenially danagerous meaning you can't get to certain websites (this is coming from computer scientists who crack games for hobbies) Anyone else know about this?   | ||
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| |UKMD| DaWhiskers |
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  Registered Member #1775 Joined: Tue Mar 03 09, 02:28PMYour Location: UK Posts: 1367 | A little Gem I stumbled upon recently MalwareBytes Anti Malware http://www.malwarebytes.org Has actually helped clean up some machines that Spybot, AVG, AdAware, failed to. [ Edited Mon Mar 30 09, 08:08AM ] POKE A PENGUIN NO, its not a CHOICE, you WILL Headbutt one of my Arrows!!!  | ||
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| |UKMD| Pixael |
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Mike Registered Member #1730 Joined: Thu Feb 19 09, 08:38PMPosts: 180 | Today I came across a fantastic video tutorial on using an Ubuntu Linux Live CD and Clam AV to disinfect Windows boxes and purge them of nasty critters. Its handy to be able to do these sorts of offline virus scans because a lot of modern malware is capable of ripping windows antivirus software a new one if you get my drift. What makes the tutorial doubly good is that it is presented by a fellow Faery called Nixie Pixel Without further formality I present the link: http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2009/04/21/nixie%E2%80%99s-linux-haxor-quickie-how-to-cure-a-windows-virus-with-linux/ How to cure a windows virus with Ubuntu Linux Hope it comes in Handy!  
sudo apt-get install n00b-faery-i386
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Forget headshots, I aim for the nuts Registered Member #1223 Joined: Tue Jul 29 08, 09:54PMYour Location: Sleaford Posts: 1471 | we use Avast Home its free so thats a plus   | ||
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Ducky Stalker Registered Member #1850 Joined: Mon Apr 06 09, 03:56PMYour Location: Derby U.K Posts: 92 | Avast Anti Virus .. free and had no probs and it updates daily .. Zonealarm .. again free and updates regular enough had norton for a few years and as above thought it was the best. saldy at my old computers expense it wasnt .. never again .. but live and learn  Angelina may be gorgeous but Ducky is awesomesauce itself.!! | ||
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| |UKMD| DaWhiskers |
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Registered Member #1775 Joined: Tue Mar 03 09, 02:28PMYour Location: UK Posts: 1367 | |Victim| Pixael wrote ... Today I came across a fantastic video tutorial on using an Ubuntu Linux Live CD and Clam AV to disinfect Windows boxes and purge them of nasty critters. I've been using a PXE of Winxp (BartPE ftw) along with Clam AV for a year or so now, just for that very reason POKE A PENGUIN NO, its not a CHOICE, you WILL Headbutt one of my Arrows!!! | ||
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| |UKMD| Pixael |
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| Mike Registered Member #1730 Joined: Thu Feb 19 09, 08:38PMPosts: 180 | Aye avast and avg are great choices especially on a fresh install, its a shame Norton/Symantec has become a bloated failure in recent times. It just too bloated, makes it easy to sneak something into memory while the AV is tying its shoelaces so to speak. @DaWhiskers ooh yeah PartPE definately FTW, I dunno what I would do without Bart+Clam AV or Ubu/knoppix+Clam AV in a lot of situations ive had to sort out. Oddly enough most of them involved a dying machine that was using Norton for protection eheheh
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| |UKMD|Doc Oc |
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doc_oc Registered Member #1814 Joined: Thu Mar 19 09, 09:52PMYour Location: The Netherlands Posts: 130 | The site www.cleansoftware.org hosts a useful catalogue of general utilities that are free and don't install advertisements and other junk. [ Edited Tue May 19 09, 05:19PM ]  | ||
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| UKMD desktop_doodles |
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desktop_doodles Registered Member #2334 Joined: Thu Jul 16 09, 11:15PMYour Location: Liverpool, UK Posts: 859 | I know its been mentioned before - but as i'm new here, I felt complelled to add my two cents. As a PC tech (have been building, upgrading etc PC's wince I was 15) I would thoroughly recommend : Avira (www.free-av.com) over AVG, as in my experience it seems to fidn things that AVG doesnt ...and likewise AVG will find the odd thing that Avira wont find - Spybot S&D (www.safer-networking.org) Free spyware remover, although has been playing up a lil recently And CCleaner (www.ccleaner.com) A handy util for removing temporary/internet files and also registry cleaning etc. I find Windows Firewall is ample protection with a decent antivirus etc (however, ZoneAlarm is good, but uneccesary -in my experience) If you have ANY Norton or Symantec programs - I HIGHLY ADVISE removing it, its pretty much useless, not to mention the fact that it is a VERY resource hungry set of applications! Many people who I've done tech jobs for in the past recognise the name, but are painfully unaware that Norton write virii (Americanism: plual of virus) and after removing the software will find that their PC will run about 15-30% faster overall after removing all norton/symantec programs. ...there is, however, a catch - they don't make it easy to do so (as eehy try to force customers to stay with them by making the programs hard to remove) they issue removal tools on their site ...so you need to download an app to remove the software (swines!) Anyways -thats my contribution! M.x    | ||
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| |UKMD| gamer76 |
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gamer76 Registered Member #685 Joined: Wed Jan 16 08, 09:27PMPosts: 89 | please note to what moggie said in the first post Common Sense, its the most important thing for internet browsing... =] For anti-virus i use Avast! which i call "reg-ware", its freeware but required you to register before use. I went off AVG when it started filtering websites - as i see that as a firewalls job not anti-virues. Avast: For general cleaning stuff (files not registery) CCleaner as many people have mentioned. Personally i don't really clean my registry because i know it causes problems sometimes, so i just relax and don't do it. For a firewall, if you have common sense and use it while browsing the internet, windows firewall is fine, but if you don't, then get a third party app. As i don't use one, i cant recommend one, apart from windows firewall =]. To be honest though, most of the cleaning programs use some windows stuff anyway same goes for the defragging applications. | ||
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