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Cheng Fan Soon Send message Joined: 3 Oct 05 Posts: 76 Credit: 4,581,394 RAC: 15 |
Just wondering how you guys handle the internet security issues (How to protect your computer from unwanted viruses, worm, Trojan, malicious-ware). No one want his/her computer being hijacked and become one member of the botnet unless it is for experiment/investigation. I know there are website talking about this topic, but a big question in my mind is: "Will a good Internet Security Suite able to give me 100% protection? That means after I install the Security Suite into my Windows, I can be sure that my Windows PC will never be hijack by the hacker to become a botnet machine? (assume i don't simply click those link that come into my email mailbox)" Although a firewall can provide some protection, but most of us home user will just use a basic firewall that come with the router - with default setting. Will an enterprise class firewall able to give me higher degree of protection? (assume i just use the default setting of the firewall....not everyone of us know how to configure a firewall) Often read in some website about "Why Windows so prone to virus attacks" http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_windows_so_prone_to_virus_attacks Although this question has nothing to do with running Seti@home. But because of the worrying of the viruses/malicious-ware/botnet infection, I don't connect my Windows laptop to internet and thus unable to run Seti@home. While for the other 6 PCs that installed with Solaris and Fedora, I have no worry to connect them to internet and run Seti@home. |
BilBg Send message Joined: 27 May 07 Posts: 3720 Credit: 9,385,827 RAC: 0 |
While there is no such thing as "100% protection" - I think NOD32 is very close to that: http://www.eset.com/home/whyeset/compare/ I use it on my (3) computers and my daughter's (2) laptops. I don't remember having an infection in the last 10 years. (I often use torrents, cracks, keygens - no problem with infections) (often children/students bring flash-sticks full of infected files but NOD32 blocks access to such files) And don't be so sure that Linux is some shield against viruses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Linuxvirus  - ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)  |
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