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[newintown]

being a technophobe, i stupidly had my lshiney new laptop up & running for first few weeks without firewall had AVG, but this did not prevent the inevitable enslaught of pop-ups & having my hompage reset to protection.warning.com against my will.
have now installed spybot & windows defender & have got 2 evil trojans locked safely in my vault. am running regular updates & have immunized myself.
i'm not sure this is entirely sufficient & fear i could still be vulnerable.
can anyone advise what additional steps i should take?

[corroonb]

Wrong forum.

Get a-squared free, its another spyware scanner like spybot.

http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/

http://www.hijackfree.com/en/

Adaware is also good.

Avg is not so great I think so mabye change the anti-virus software. Don't get Norton or McAffee. Nod32 and Kaspersky are good.

http://www.kaspersky.com/

http://www.eset.com/

[newintown]

thanks.
sorry. wrong forum. just noticed technology forum
did i mention i was a technophobe?!

[ChuckECheese]

I thought you were talking about ballons. Then it would have been the right forum.

[TiGrBaLm]

i'd recommend spysweeper and zonealarm as your firewall

been using both for 3 years now and have had nothing take me down

i find anti-viruses to be resource hogs and tend to screw things up more often that fixing them

[djsmnc]

I thought this would be a thread about condoms

[plutodog18]

Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite is by far the best overall product. It is not expensive, sets up automatically without any technology knowledge needed and is anti-virus, anti spyware and the top rated firewall all in one.

I run it and NEVER have any problems.

Google it and buy it online, no problem.

[Sincinnatislink]

Use an OS related to the one hackers use and you don't have to worry about this shit.

They're getting easier to use.
http://www.ubuntu.com/

Or if you feel like dropping the dough, get something more expensive, commercial, but prettier:
http://www.apple.com

Windows will eventually stop mattering.