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NicKnayme · Manager

My Personal Freeware Choices-What Are Your's?

barney · Administrator / Manager

Anti-Virus: Avast

Firewall: Window (Vista) Built-In Firewall.... it is much better than past Windows firewalls

Anti-Spyware: Spybot S&D, Lava Ad-Aware

Anti-Malware: Lava Ad-Aware

Anti-Rootkit: none

Rootkit scan: none

Browser: Firefox

File Cleaner: CCleaner

Defragger: Windows Defrag

** As a side note, I mostly use Linux Debian x64 bit on my system, so I have no need for any of this. I do use Firefox, but Linux requires no extra protection. It is inherently secure and free of malware attacks. It also requires no defragmenting of any kind. Although every OS has vulnerabilities, Linux gets patched usually within a day of any security issues being revealed.

-- Edited by barney at 11:13, 2009-01-09

Moh-Reza-rafat · Guru

1.Anti-Virus: AVG

2.Firewall: Zone Alarm Security suite

3.Anti-Spyware: Spybot S&D,

4.Anti-Malware: none

5.Anti-Rootkit: Do not know what it is

6.Rootkit scan: Do not know what it is

7.Browser: Firefox and IE 7 - but mostly FireFox

8.File Cleaner: CCleaner and Norton System Works and Tune Up utilities

9.Defragger: Smart Defrag and Windows Defrag

Need comments about items nos 4 , 5 and 6 : are those a MUST for a PC ?
Are other items enough for my PC(Laptop), if not , need some free programs for more protection.

Thanks in advance.
M.Rafat

Vindicated · Administrator / Manager

!0 Free Must-Have Security Tools

Sophos Anti-Rootkit detection & removal.

-- Edited by Vindicated at 17:06, 2009-02-27

NicKnayme · Manager

Ok Moh, I will give it a shot (try to explain)

Malware is an all inclusive word for spyware, trojans (disguised programs that run in the background on your PC), or adware. There are other bad things...to numerous to mention.

A Rootkit remover will (hopefully) find the process of a trojan by a signature or footprint and remove it. Unlike detecting a virus which is exact code present (hard to detect variants).

A Rootkit scanner finds...but does not remove.

Do you need to use these? It's all about how safe you want to be.

Hope this helps

Alan

Moh-Reza-rafat · Guru

Alan
Thanks for your explanation.
yes, please let me know the related (free) programs with easy to use running.

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Vindicated : thanks for the links .

best wishes

M.Rafat

NicKnayme · Manager

Moh, you will need to Google your choices, and with most freeware apps...you will need to manually update and manually run scans.

Alan