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this is way OT but ever tried calling mcafee support? they pronounce it MACafee. Is that how it's suppost to be? I always figured it was like mcdonalds, given it's mc and not mac. wow, way to turn a forum terrorist related thread into OT. It's like bush talking about his birdie on the 18th hole while talking about the 9/11 attacks.

I'm home now, and I unblocked myself from my own security. (easy to do from my house) so now I'm going to check out any new developments on the other forum (if it's still up ) and take required screen shots then get into the legal stuff. They finally caught on to my auto block script so we might see some come on more. But I have another plan in mind that is very similar to that auto block script, but it will catch a few more. Problem is, anyone from here might also get caught in the trap, so I may avoid using that security tracker.

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Mr. Smith
When you get tired of paying for what you are using, try AVG anti-virus and ZoneAlarm Firewall. Both free and in my opinion, better.

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Yep i use AVG at home.

Wow, quite OT, well we're still talking about security.

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And when you get tired of how crappy AVG is...

Try Avast antivirus.

Best free AV out there, thank you and goodnight.

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The Gheyness wrote: And when you get tired of how crappy AVG is...

Try Avast antivirus.

Best free AV out there, thank you and goodnight.

AVG...crappy?
I've tried avast. Good anti-virus but the update downloads are huge compared to AVG. Sucks for dial-up. Very respectable AV.

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I find AVG fine, use it on both machines here. I was actually going to recomend it for 900 PCs at a school board, but it turned out F-secure was better and cheaper. Fsecure is another good product if you want to pay. But I would go with a free solution for home use.

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F-secure. =X

AVG is pretty decent, I just don't think it picks up as much as a few other AV's out there.

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The Gheyness wrote: F-secure.  =X

AVG is pretty decent, I just don't think it picks up as much as a few other AV's out there.

Everything I've seen has it equal to or better than Norton. But I don't vist risky sites or open very many attachments. I also changed my security settings in OE(outlook express). You can do that you know. Make OE secure.

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It's better than it used to be, but I still think NAV and Avast are better, unless you buy the paid, full version of AVG.

The only thing I don't like about Avast's free version is the lack of script blocking.

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I don't use IE so I don't really need any type of script blocking or anything.

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i think were safe now...*crawls out of box* i havent seen anything unusual...

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Yeah it's pretty much over, or they're just waiting for when we least expect it.

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*enters box again, and closes lid*

i'll wait it out.



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0 wrote:

Mr Smith wrote: Spybot and mc affe.

Mcafee antivirus or firewall? I personally feel that Mcafee is a virus.

Abit late on the reply here... But i totally agree. I had it for one day and my CPU usage hit the roof! It took like 5 minutes to open Firefox...

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Wow, you must have a slow PC. I had McAfee VirusScan 8.0 running on 4 VMs at the same time on a Dell machine. win98, win2k and XP and windows server 2000 all at once.

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My PC's 1GHz. Kinda lame, but to say i've had it 5 years, kinda good. My internet connection is 2MB.

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Mine is 3Ghz Well the one at work was 1.x like 1.7 or something.

My net is only like 500k though. it's advertized as 5Mb. yeah... sure... lol

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Red Squirrel wrote:
My net is only like 500k though.  it's advertized as 5Mb.  yeah... sure... lol

What do you use to test your speed?


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Various things. Basically any download, or speed test, I never get above that. I'd have to do some testing now though, have not in a while.

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Or... Ask your ISP

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Like most ISP's, they'll just tell me it's my firewall. I don't know where people get the idea that a firewall will slow down a connection. It may prevent it, or let it through, but it won't slow it down. Unless you got some intense packet level analysis going on, but that should be done by a security appliance anyway.

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Go into your router settings and it should say there.

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What type of service is it? DSL or Cable or, God forbid, satellite?

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It's DSL, but what they did is went and offered 5mbps instead of 1, without getting a pipeline 5 times as big as the curent one, so if you do the math, it's slow. You can have 10 people caped at 10mbps on a 100mbps link and it goes fine, but if you let those people use 100mbps without making the main link 1000, then you've got problems, and that's basically what they did.

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Ah. Sounds like they got a little ahead of themselves as they've tried to remain competitive.

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