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Junki3
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Posted: 18 May 2005 at 12:50pm \| IP Logged

OK not sure wot ive done but I have f**ked up my new PC so ive gone out and bought a new 120gb hdd now I want to partition it 20gb for O/S 40gb Games etc 60gb storage vids music etc..

ive installed hdd put on xp proff. wot is the advise on wot protection to go with it!!

I have a copy of norton internet security 2005 with anti virus, on disk adaware spy ware detector, system utilities (thingy that comes with mother board).

Anything else i'll need.... and does this all go on same partition as o/s?????

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Posted: 18 May 2005 at 1:34pm \| IP Logged

norton internet security is bollox. only install the av part unless you dont have a hardware firewall on our modem/router? yes you can install on same partition as os. adaware is also v good, try to run it at least once a month on your machine to clear out nasties...

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Junki3
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Posted: 18 May 2005 at 1:55pm \| IP Logged

wot firewall & AV software do you recommend????? and is it cheap

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Posted: 18 May 2005 at 2:30pm \| IP Logged

I use bitdefender. Free virus checker. And v nice. www.bitdefender.com

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Posted: 18 May 2005 at 4:00pm \| IP Logged

I only use norton antivirus, I have the others too, but I disabled them.. I use lavsoft's adaware and zonealarm pro as a firewall, I think you can get a free zonealarm too..

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Posted: 18 May 2005 at 4:18pm \| IP Logged

kerio personal firewall

AVG anti virus

both free and doing the job fine

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Posted: 18 May 2005 at 4:30pm \| IP Logged

norton anti- v , ad-aware AND spybot search and destroy for the spyware removal and firewall i use is sygate free jobbie which surfices.

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Posted: 18 May 2005 at 4:57pm \| IP Logged

if you have a hardware router for your inet connection then it has a firewall built in. norton is fine for AV.

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Posted: 18 May 2005 at 5:21pm \| IP Logged

norton is good for AV so is AVG 6,

as for fire walls hardware router ones are best, and I would avoid ZoneAlarm like the plage.

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Posted: 18 May 2005 at 7:30pm \| IP Logged

why would you want to avoid zonealarm? I used it for a very long time, and I think its good

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Junki3
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Posted: 19 May 2005 at 12:36pm \| IP Logged

is it worth me installing my system utilities [thing that tells u CPU temp etc]

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Posted: 19 May 2005 at 1:25pm \| IP Logged

no harm in it mate. Will allow you to set alarms for over heating etc - but not absolutely essential. Word on the street is that harv has a spanking new PC as well.

Junki3
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Posted: 19 May 2005 at 1:34pm \| IP Logged

ive installed :

XP proffesional, AVG 7.0, Zonealarm, adaware and a system utilities thing. hope that should be enough to protect my system now maybe i'll install vent and CS

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Posted: 19 May 2005 at 5:29pm \| IP Logged

I had nothing but troubles with zone alarm when I was working for telewest, plus I have not heard of many happy users.

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greg
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Posted: 19 May 2005 at 6:03pm \| IP Logged

i use microsoft antispyware which i quite like for its realtime scanning

im sure everyone else is about to slate it to pieces tho!

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Posted: 20 May 2005 at 12:05am \| IP Logged

whats the spec on harvs machine then?

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