While absent from the pages of Briskoda, I have been battling with some spyware left on the Pc by Kazaa. Finally got it off with the help of a special anti-spyware forum. Made me wonder. What security software do you run.

I have F-secure firewall, antivirus, anti spam etc, Spybot, Adaware SE, Microsoft anti-Spyware Beta.

Did have Norton AV, but F-secure was recently rated best anti-virus package by Computer Shoper, beating both free and commercial packages.

Sygate personal firewall, Nod32 av, Process Guard, Regprotector and Wormguard all running real-time, TDS3, Spybot SnD, and AdawareSE for on-demand trojan and spy stuff scanning, and for cleaning Tracks Eraser Pro and MRU Buster.

I think that makes my pc secure and spy stuff/cookie etc free.

ps..welcome back

McAfee internet securitysuite, adaware and some hardware firewalls.

I iontend getting a new broad band thingy with built in hardware fire wall.

router has firewall and use micro$oft anit-wotsit beta.

I use the built-in firewall in my ADSL modem/router. The two PCs behind it run Linux, with all non-essential services shut down, and all the essential ones strictly controlled. I don't use Microsoft {anything}.

I think my security is just about acceptable. I still keep an eye on things, though...

I run both hardware and software firewalls. The software firewall hardly picks up anything these days since the hardware firewall came along. Of course behind that I have AV and spyware removal tools also. I can still see risks, although I don't necessarily share the doom and gloom outlook where Microsoft products are concerned.

I have nothing. But common sense sees me through.

Use HiJackThis. Also, use Firefox instead of Internet Explorer. Ive realised that since I used Firefox, viruses, spyware, crappy adverts have stopped. When I use Internet Explorer on the rare occasion, 70% of the time I get some crappy .exe download itself.

I am using Firefox 1.0, and Thunderbird for email. So far less crap indeed.

Hello again William

I'm currently using norton internet security 2004. Only went to it because I was having problems getting to the AVG sites for updates (around the time of nasty floods in europe, which someone reckoned had taken out their update server).

Unfortunately it's the same norton as before - slow, not very helpful and I think I'm going to dump it soon! I'll probably go back to AVG soon.

Apart from that, I use firefox, adaware and spybot. ADSL modem/router has a firewall on it as well. Could maybe beef that up (will have to install microsoft's scanner, for e.g.) but so far not had any problems... (where's the fingers-crossed smile?)

I'm currently using norton internet security 2004. Only went to it because I was having problems getting to the AVG sites for updates (around the time of nasty floods in europe' date=' which someone reckoned had taken out their update server).

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Yep, one of the Grisoft update servers is in Czech, which got hit by major floods a few years back.

AVG updates are fine now though

Yep updated my AVG this morning.

I've tried Thunderbird, and other email clients, but I keep coming back to Outlook because I need a calendar, and I haven't found another worthwhile combination.

Outlook 2k and norton were s*** for me... took ages to scan mail - usually just timed out. Known issue apparently. Thunderbird works fine with it, thankfully.

My only prob with thunderbird is the name - first time I got drunk was on thunderbird. Ewwwww!

I spose my mail delivery is fairly slow - all mail is going through both Spampal and AVG, but since I have it set to deliver every 5 minutes, I don't really notice...

Use HiJackThis. Also, use Firefox instead of Internet Explorer. Ive realised that since I used Firefox, viruses, spyware, crappy adverts have stopped. When I use Internet Explorer on the rare occasion, 70% of the time I get some crappy .exe download itself.

Only if you let it... do you blindly click "Yes" when it asks to install "cumguzzlingsluts.exe"?

"cumguzzlingsluts.exe"?

Very subtle

Nod32, Prevx (Intrusion prevention) and the IOS firewall in my router.

Adaware and Spybot too.