What makes a computer 'safe'?

[djr]

[NSR Mick]

I also get paid to play with them, but Ialso like playing with them at home.
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[stinkwheel]

[NSR Mick]

there is that approach too stinkwheel.

a well know fact is that to keep a pc safe from viruses etc is not to allow it to connect to the internet in any way shape or form.
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[djr]

[The View Askew]

Zone alarm pro, AVG real time pro. Microsoft Antispyware.

Not one infected file ever.
Zone alarm never fails to rat out every tiny little thing and ask you whether you wish to allow it to run, if not, it is THE ONLY program i've used that is actually capable of killing a program without "Access to file denied" or other such faeces.
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[numark1]

I see that cunt derbi was getting pissed off.

[NSR Mick]

[numark1]

He deserves it after saying i and others were bullshitting when he didn't know what he was talking about.

[veeeffarr]

ZoneAlarm is complete and utter pish when you realise you don't want to use it anymore you will have your internet access blocked as it installs 3rd party drivers to handle network traffic, that conviently lock up the machine when the truvector engine (or whatever the fuck it's called) isn't detected.

[numark1]

I am using AVG Anti-Virus, SP2 firewall and ad aware for spyware.

Using on all our pc/laptops at home and server and 8 clients in the office and not a single problem.

[AcIdBuRnZ]

[Psychofly]

I use AVG Antivirus, Kerio Personal Firewall (think it's called Sunbelt now) and Spybot.

Never have any problems and they're all free.

[chrisw]

In an office environment, locking a machine down via Reg entries and GPOs can be a complete pain if you need to remote admin it.

The route I've taken with a couple of machines is that all the emphases is put on the user.

They have to login with their own name (no generic accounts) and web activity is recorded. Warnings are given that they are being monitored and that they must log off/restart the machine when they are finished with it.

That way, if something unsavoury is left on the machine or there is cause for concern (there is a 'reasonable use' clause in all contracts), the logs can be looked at and tied to the user on the machine. If they claim it was someone using their account, they are still responsible as it is down to them to keep their account details secure.

However, the people that use these 'open' machines do kill the OS on a regular bases by simply browsing crap (Spyware normally), so the machines are ghosted in a clean state and a rebuild CD is left with a named person, that way when they do break, they can be rebuilt in less than 30mins.

For home use, well, I use Firefox and common sense. There is a simple firewall in out router which just blocks all incoming ports (bar one or two I've opened) just to stop anything someone else may try on, but thats about it.

[m99dws]

[Liam_]

[djr]

[Liam_]

nah, i'll just keep it the way it is. everything runs fine and i haven't seen any performance hit since installing it

used to format my PC all the time, but it soon bored the tits out of me and i found it tedious having to re-install everything and all that cack.
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[chrisw]

[m99dws]

NT4 domains don't have to be upgraded for that, there are plenty of ADM's you can integrate to your existing NT policy to assist you.

[Craggles]

Will come back and read all of this - but for now:

Myself and a friend were wiping his pc and going through the windows install process. For a laugh, we connected an out-of-the box windows xp install to the net and left it. We litrally booted it up, logged on and walked away.

The machine lasted 15 minutes... (i think it was blaster that killed it - it got stuck into a reboot cycle).

Craig
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[NSR Mick]

15 minutes, thats quite a while.

I've seen it done within seconds, bastard virus writers.
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[tribal_tiger]

[Liam_]