21-01-2008, 07:17 PM | #101 | ||
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Hi Japofran! IE7 sandbox behavior is enabled by default on Vista (the only Windows where you can have this). You should see a message like "Protected Mode: Active" in the righthand corner of your IE window. If you see "off", then that means you are currently running some plugin which requires full access to your drive.
More about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_7 http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/...6676&SiteID=17 |
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21-01-2008, 08:13 PM | #102 | ||
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Ah OK I have IE7 but WinXP. Anyway that's not sandboxing, that's running the browser with limited rights. I already do everything including of course Internet browsing, except the necessary installations and such, from a limited user account, it's not the default setting in XP but I created it long ago (it's very easy, just go to Control Panel and click-click), everybody should do that in Vista as well as in XP, but most don't.
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22-01-2008, 12:58 AM | #103 | ||
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13-04-2009, 03:56 AM | #104 | ||
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Yes YEs yes , Russ I am necromancing this thread.....:tongue:
Well, I am doing this because AdAware Se is no longer supported with definitions since a couple of weeks and I would like some advice on a good antispyware for free that doesn't take too many resources Right now for proteccion I have Avira antivir 8 (not the las version which is 9), Comodo Bo clean, Comodo firewall, and windows xp's firewall, I run on windows xp sp2. For browser I use firefox sandboxed. I don't care very much if the antspyware is not a live resident, but a care more on the completness of the definitions, how accurate it is, and low resources demands. Any suggestion?
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13-04-2009, 06:35 AM | #105 | ||
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I only use Zonealarm Firewall and that's because my PC is for gaming and I don't want any resource eaters.
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13-04-2009, 10:31 AM | #106 | ||
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i believe he wanted an ad remover. i suggest spybot search and destroy. no crap, free, no million background processes, just spyware detection and browser protection, with worldwide mirrors on different universities and different organizations
by the way get rid of comodo firewall, comodo "bo" clean, and avira, now that you locked you're holes in different topic you're not under a thread
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14-04-2009, 01:32 AM | #107 | ||
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....I must admit that until now I have never found any thread on my computer, or detected any virus (only false positives)
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14-04-2009, 08:57 AM | #108 | ||
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if you have the security holes locked, you shouldn't need a firewall for daily threads
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05-05-2009, 07:42 AM | #109 | ||
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Antivir, Spybot S&D, and Spywareblaster. Occasionally, I'll run a-squared. I used to use AVG but didn't like the new version. And I used to use Ad-aware, but it stopped working for some reason so I uninstalled it since I never really used it anymore.
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05-05-2009, 12:48 PM | #110 | ||
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Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is getting good reviews, the free version only does manually activated scans and needs manually updating which is no big deal and you can pay for real-time malware protection and auto updates but if you also run AVG free version 8 that has a real-time resident shield which I find works well and it also has a link scanner that tells you if any of the sites returned by a google search have anything nasty waiting to attack you if you go there.
Be aware that AVG 8 needs windows SP3 installed on XP, it wouldn't install until I installed SP3. http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebyte...-10804572.html AVG Free anti virus. http://free.avg.com/download-avg-ant...s-free-edition |
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