Keeping your PC safe

[DO]

The virse guard wont work
When ever its on, the internet turns off.
So I cant Register. What should i do?

Do you mean firewall?


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[Board of Command]

Check for vulnerabilities of your computer system to remote attacks:

Trojan horse check:

Your system successfully defended itself from this attack!

Your computer is invisible to the others on the Internet!

Thank goodness for hardware firewall. For anyone who needs a software firewall and/or doesn't have a hardware firewall, I recommend NOD32. You'll have to find a pirated copy because it was bought out by Symantec and is now discontinued.

[Danad_corps]

I'd say to not get a software firewall at all. Hardware firewall >> software firewall.

For security's (and performance) sake, Opera>>Firefox

Kaspersky AV was rated among the best and its AOL version is free (its essentially AV lite).

Common sense is definitely key to remaining safe. Staying updated is part of common sense so log into a recognized compter-centric forum and look around every once in a while to make sure your PC is well equiped to defend against attacks.

[master_me]

I'll be entirely honest, I haven't had a firewall set up since I last reinstalled Windows XP in September. I've had this computer since mid 2005 and haven't once been the target of any harmful viruses. Of course, a lot of the time I am running Linux and not XP.

Still, with that said, I'll have the hackers all over me.

[itadakimasu]

if you for some reason dont have a good anti virus / spyware running on your system... do not recklessly surf shady sites. pr0n, warez, serials... i dl some keygens but only from certain places (i like the music ^^)

i was trying to find a serial for some program i dl'd this past year and i got some sort of nasty virus thing on my computer that would display this message saying i needed virus protection and it would link me to this kind of fake antivirus program... took me a good 2-3 hours of googling to finally find a fix.