PPL that run windows and think they are protected by Windows Default Firewall are sorely mistaken. Slam a firewall to head your Internet connection and that will pretty much stop everything dead in its tracks. I Use untangle at home and a few businesses in Nashvile i have contracts with and they have 0 problems
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Chris McQuistion <cmcquist...@watkins.edu> wrote: > I like to install Windows Defender on every Windows machine, first of all. > It is actually pretty good and is self-updating and runs tests > automatically on a regular schedule. Next, I usually install Spyware > Blaster which performs spyware immunization of the machine and various > browsers installed (it doesn't do spyware cleaning, it does spyware > immunization.) Next, I put on Spybot Search and Destroy to look for any > problems (if I have reason to think there might be some.) If I have a > really sick machine, I'll get Malwarebytes, which is free and also very > good. > All of those programs are free and I've encountered very few machines that > cannot be cleaned up with that combination, unless they have some large > amount of viruses, in which case, you'll know that something is very wrong > with them. > Chris > > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Timothy Ball <timb...@tux.org> wrote: >> >> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:37:13AM -0500, Drew wrote: >> > Yeah, it's off topic. However, in my experience the amount of knowledge >> > readily available on this list is huge, and I have a lot of respect for >> > most >> > of the opinions expressed in matters technical here. But lets suppose, >> > that >> > even though we've taken reasonable steps to ensure that windows machines >> > on >> > our network are not compromised, the powers that be still "want to make >> > sure" that nothing has happened to any of them. Short of reinstalling >> > machines just because, or getting rid of them and having everyone use >> > linux, >> > what's the best way to make certain a windows machine is not >> > compromised? To >> > rephrase, what is the best (free or otherwise) software package to use >> > to >> > check for spyware, malware, viruses, keyloggers, and other nefarious >> > schemes >> > to take over the world that may be brewing on a windows computer? Thanks >> > for >> > the feedback. >> > >> >> "nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure" -- hudson [0] >> >> --timball >> >> [0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q >> >> -- >> GPG key available on pgpkeys.mit.edu >> pub 1024D/511FBD54 2001-07-23 Timothy Lu Hu Ball <timb...@tux.org> >> Key fingerprint = B579 29B0 F6C8 C7AA 3840 E053 FE02 BB97 511F BD54 >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
