Good antivirus software

RG · Post by RG » Fri May 26, 2006 10:39 pm

McAfee + Spybot + Ad-Aware + Zone Labs

Barrabob · Post by **Barrabob** » Fri May 26, 2006 11:21 pm

i dont use anything atm well old nortons but couldnt be bothered updating it, my isp has email antivirus scanning and a good junk filter for free as a service as does msn so i supose all thats left to scan is whatever I download off the warez sites

and i dont do them anymore anyway.

A freind of mine uses bigpond and she used to get up to 100 junk emails a day wouldnt you think a big isp like telstra would have free scanning and junk filters on their email servers.....no but you can have it for a fee.

Ohh microsoft antispyware and a occaisonal blast with spybot s&d

chameleon · Post by **chameleon** » Sat May 27, 2006 2:59 pm

go to the TOOLS/ INTERNET OPTIONS/ SECURITY dialog box from the menus at the top of your browser and change the "internet" security setting from medium to High with the Custom Level button. This filters out all popups and applets and spyware because it won't allow executable code to come through. When you have a site where you want java, etc to work you copy it's address out of the address bar above, double click the little "internet" designator at the bottom RH side of your window and add the address to your "Trusted Sites " list.

But cut out all the ancillary address info before you "add" it,

Hence http://www.ksrc-au.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=9
Becomes http://www.ksrc-au.com/

You only have to do this once for every trusted site and thereafter you can surf in peace

mrmina · Post by **mrmina** » Sat May 27, 2006 4:22 pm

i use sophos, i got it free from a mag. its the full working program and it works good (i guess)

Smitty · Post by **Smitty** » Sat May 27, 2006 6:11 pm

Barrabob wrote: A freind of mine uses bigpond and she used to get up to 100 junk emails a day wouldnt you think a big isp like telstra would have free scanning and junk filters on their email servers.....no but you can have it for a fee.

Ohh microsoft antispyware and a occaisonal blast with spybot s&d

ISPs dont wanna know about junk or spam.....

so I use Mailwasher to catch all the junk before it gets downloaded

mike-s · Post by **mike-s** » Mon May 29, 2006 2:07 pm

Smitty: agreed, you also get the mailwasher monthly mailout? if so you read the snippet about bluefrog security going under due to a spammer going a but, shall we say, berko?

my spamlevel is nearly on 3:1, for every normal email i get 3 spam mails

. It sucks, and unfortunately most spammers are interstate, if i knew of one that lived in my city im sure i'd have trouble restraining myself from not dialing before i dig.

Smitty · Post by **Smitty** » Mon May 29, 2006 5:42 pm

mike-s wrote:Smitty: agreed, you also get the mailwasher monthly mailout? if so you read the snippet about bluefrog security going under due to a spammer going a but, shall we say, berko?

my spamlevel is nearly on 3:1, for every normal email i get 3 spam mails . It sucks, and unfortunately most spammers are interstate, if i knew of one that lived in my city im sure i'd have trouble restraining myself from not dialing before i dig.

yeah..I did it (Mailwasher news)
that Russian spammer Pharmamaster is a spooky dude
able to get that much junk thru he brought them down
and how about bribing ISP techos?
scary I reckon......

I have to say though....
Mailwasher has worked for me. I was getting over 100 spam emails
a day before I got it. I use the catch and bounce method with Mailwasher.
Now? I get 2 or 2 spam messages a day (and I still get my normal
10-12 messages too)

cheers

mike-s · Post by **mike-s** » Mon May 29, 2006 6:18 pm

Mate i was told dont bother with the bounce method, it clogs up the system too much, i.e. some other poor bastard is getting your bounces from the dodgy spam pricks (what i mean is that i've only ever had nigerian scam emails that came from a valid address)