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eg6sir · 01-27-2009, 03:12 PM

its been running so damn slow lately, so i'm gonna have my friend bring by his external harddrive and i'm gonna reset windows basically... while im at it i'm going to redo the security on my computer and thats where i have questions

now i'm not looking to spend any money on programs so i'm looking for whatever is free and good.. even if its not free, i can get it via torrents

-i need a new Virus program, ditching the McAfee i have
-need a firewall program (ZoneAlarm any good?)
-spyware/adware program

any info regarding this would be appreciated, i'm not real computer savy... so i need whatever help i can get

TurboMirage · 01-27-2009, 03:16 PM

i only have AVG and windows defender installed... i've only caught one virus ever in the last year and it was only about an hours' worth of work to remove.

eg6sir · 01-27-2009, 03:19 PM

eg6sir · 01-27-2009, 03:21 PM

nevermind.. i looked it up..

i'll remember that one when the time comes... anymore options?

eg6sir · 01-27-2009, 03:23 PM

i think i have Windows Defender already.. doesnt matter though.. its all gonna dissappear ..

George777 · 01-27-2009, 03:48 PM

Spybot & Adaware--I've used them for a while now and never had a problem with them.

eg6sir · 01-27-2009, 03:55 PM

have had both of those.. AdAware has recently given me problems, so thats gone..

another question

I'm thinking my friend doesnt have an ex-HD .. so i may need to buy one, but its gotta be cheap and i dont need one with huge capacity, just for my music and pictures.. i'm thinking a 40gig would be suffice.. not sure what one to go with.. i'll most likely get it from eBay, and i'm not sure which ones are junk and which ones are good..

info please

eg6sir · 01-27-2009, 03:57 PM

how about this one?

40GB USB 2.0 External Portable 2.5" Seagate Hard Drive - eBay (item 200298918015 end time Feb-13-09 10:47:58 PST)

George777 · 01-27-2009, 05:20 PM

80 gig external drive that's never been used too big?

TurboMirage · 01-27-2009, 05:21 PM

you can get a 750GB external at staples for less than $100.

eg6sir · 01-27-2009, 05:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by George777

80 gig external drive that's never been used too big?

depends on how big the price is?

Quote:

Originally Posted by TurboMirage

you can get a 750GB external at staples for less than $100.

yea, but i dont need that much memory

TurboMirage · 01-27-2009, 05:24 PM

but you're going to pay 1/2 that for less than 100GB.

old people, you never get it :P

George777 · 01-27-2009, 05:27 PM

I lied...It's a 250 gig HD...

eg6sir · 01-27-2009, 05:30 PM

your pm has been replied to.. quite an offer, cant pass that up

George777 · 01-27-2009, 05:31 PM

Balls in your court, sir.

eg6sir · 01-27-2009, 05:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TurboMirage

you can get a 750GB external at staples for less than $100.

Quote:

Originally Posted by TurboMirage

but you're going to pay 1/2 that for less than 100GB.

old people, you never get it :P

survey says.. ERRRR!

Staples®- Office Supplies, Electronics, Furniture, Ink, Toner, Copy Paper

endlesszeal · 01-27-2009, 07:06 PM

Antivirus:

Free - AntiVir or Avast!. Both are better than AVG. I prefer AntiVir but it has a little nag to upgrade to pro, but rarely. Uses less resources than Avast.

Paid - NOD32 or Symantec 2009 (not 360). Symantec has refreshed and revamped their 2009 and its good. Very fast scanner and footprint is very small around 30mb or so. NOD32 has been consistancy good for me.

Firewall:

Free - Comodo Firewall. Best free firewall period. Never had any problems and tells you whats coming in and out. Has many levels of user setting from novice to pro.

Paid - Symantec 2009 that comes with antivirus. Also very good and works quitely.

Spyware/Adware:

Free - SuperAntiSpyware. Ive used spybot with adaware but dumped in favor of SAS because both couldnt get rid of something that SAS did.
Free - HiJackTHis. Run with SAS and you should be spyware free.

Lastly get CCcleaner and run it weekly to clear cookies, temp files nad various junk.

Now in terms of external harddrives, theyre pretty much all the same. LaCies seem to have a sturdier chassis but Ive used Simpletech and WD Books and they run just fine. However, Id be wary of the newer Seagates that run 7200.11 drives. Theyve been crashing and bricking left and right. Price wise a 500Gb should be around 60-70 and 1Tb should be 110. If you look around staples and office depot theyve been clearancing out 320gb for around 40-50. Or you can buy a 250gb for around 40 and a case for around 10 ish and just put it together. Very easy.

eg6sir · 01-27-2009, 07:33 PM

thanks a lot.. exactly what i was wanting

TurboMirage · 01-27-2009, 07:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eg6sir

survey says.. ERRRR!

Staples®- Office Supplies, Electronics, Furniture, Ink, Toner, Copy Paper

i walked in and bought it. you cant buy everything online, ya know

eg6sir · 01-27-2009, 07:37 PM

im not even sure if there is a Staples in my town.. anyways.. George is kind enough to lend me his that he never used..

YBLEGAL · 01-27-2009, 07:48 PM

Firewall software is no good, you should have a hardware firewall (router) because it prevents unwanted traffic from even touching your computer and causing it to process data. Also a router is harder to get past than software. You can get a wired one from TrendNET on newegg for 15 bucks.

AVG is fine in my opinion. For spyware I would go with SpyBot. SpyBot also has the temporary files cleaner.

For an external you can't go wrong with a Western Digital Black 1TB and a cheap external enclosure but it would be a little more than 130 bucks. The WD 1TB HD is 120 at newegg but out of stock right now.

eg6sir · 01-27-2009, 07:52 PM

i have a wired Linksys router already and i dont need the HD anymore.. George is hookin me up.. lol

YBLEGAL · 01-27-2009, 08:00 PM

Sweet. Well if you have a linksys router, it does what's called NAT, Network Address Translation, and PAT, Port Address Translation. When you request a webpage, the router knows the internal network requested the data so it lets the response pass back in. If traffic that wasn't requested by the internal network comes to the router on the outside, the router will deny it from going further and passing into the internal network, unless a rule is set in the router.

Summery: You don't need a software firewall.

eg6sir · 01-27-2009, 08:02 PM

sweet.. one less thing to clutter up the computer

endlesszeal · 01-27-2009, 10:02 PM

i think a software firewall is good for redundancy to catch stuff that hardware doesnt see, especially when torrenting. example, i was dling some anime and some butt fu*k from china tried sending a packet sniffer with the torrents and norton caught it and blocked it from getting in.

as for having a linksys, the stock firmware sucks. if you have some of the older versions v1-v4 you can run alot of 3rd party firmware. the new ones might be able to run dd-wrt micro depending on version. they have a lot more features and more stable epsecially with heavy usage.

01-27-2009, 03:16 PM	#2
TurboMirage Running on two cylinders Join Date: May 2003 Location: Southbridge, MA Age: 25 Posts: 18,155 iTrader: 1 / 100% Ride: 2000 Mitsubishi Lancer RPW E5 Coupe Rep Power: 338	i only have AVG and windows defender installed... i've only caught one virus ever in the last year and it was only about an hours' worth of work to remove. __________________ Home of the RPW built 2000 Lancer CC Coupe. See what is done to the little Evo5. "If you don't like what I've done with my car, I will gladly refund all the money you put into it."

01-27-2009, 05:21 PM	#10
TurboMirage Running on two cylinders Join Date: May 2003 Location: Southbridge, MA Age: 25 Posts: 18,155 iTrader: 1 / 100% Ride: 2000 Mitsubishi Lancer RPW E5 Coupe Rep Power: 338	you can get a 750GB external at staples for less than $100. __________________ Home of the RPW built 2000 Lancer CC Coupe. See what is done to the little Evo5. "If you don't like what I've done with my car, I will gladly refund all the money you put into it."

01-27-2009, 05:24 PM	#12
TurboMirage Running on two cylinders Join Date: May 2003 Location: Southbridge, MA Age: 25 Posts: 18,155 iTrader: 1 / 100% Ride: 2000 Mitsubishi Lancer RPW E5 Coupe Rep Power: 338	but you're going to pay 1/2 that for less than 100GB. old people, you never get it :P __________________ Home of the RPW built 2000 Lancer CC Coupe. See what is done to the little Evo5. "If you don't like what I've done with my car, I will gladly refund all the money you put into it."

01-27-2009, 07:48 PM	#21
YBLEGAL Regular Member w/ Cheese Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: NW Indiana Posts: 2,746 iTrader: 0 / 0% Ride: 2000 EJ8 w/ SiR-II Rep Power: 72	Firewall software is no good, you should have a hardware firewall (router) because it prevents unwanted traffic from even touching your computer and causing it to process data. Also a router is harder to get past than software. You can get a wired one from TrendNET on newegg for 15 bucks. AVG is fine in my opinion. For spyware I would go with SpyBot. SpyBot also has the temporary files cleaner. For an external you can't go wrong with a Western Digital Black 1TB and a cheap external enclosure but it would be a little more than 130 bucks. The WD 1TB HD is 120 at newegg but out of stock right now. __________________ YBLEGAL.NET → Profile • Projects • Parts For Sale → Steel Braided Brake Lines • Front Camber Kit (Price Drop) • Manual Brake Pedal

01-27-2009, 08:00 PM	#23
YBLEGAL Regular Member w/ Cheese Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: NW Indiana Posts: 2,746 iTrader: 0 / 0% Ride: 2000 EJ8 w/ SiR-II Rep Power: 72	Sweet. Well if you have a linksys router, it does what's called NAT, Network Address Translation, and PAT, Port Address Translation. When you request a webpage, the router knows the internal network requested the data so it lets the response pass back in. If traffic that wasn't requested by the internal network comes to the router on the outside, the router will deny it from going further and passing into the internal network, unless a rule is set in the router. Summery: You don't need a software firewall. __________________ YBLEGAL.NET → Profile • Projects • Parts For Sale → Steel Braided Brake Lines • Front Camber Kit (Price Drop) • Manual Brake Pedal


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01-27-2009, 07:06 PM	#17
endlesszeal Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 2,068 iTrader: 0 / 0% Rep Power: 68	Antivirus: Free - AntiVir or Avast!. Both are better than AVG. I prefer AntiVir but it has a little nag to upgrade to pro, but rarely. Uses less resources than Avast. Paid - NOD32 or Symantec 2009 (not 360). Symantec has refreshed and revamped their 2009 and its good. Very fast scanner and footprint is very small around 30mb or so. NOD32 has been consistancy good for me. Firewall: Free - Comodo Firewall. Best free firewall period. Never had any problems and tells you whats coming in and out. Has many levels of user setting from novice to pro. Paid - Symantec 2009 that comes with antivirus. Also very good and works quitely. Spyware/Adware: Free - SuperAntiSpyware. Ive used spybot with adaware but dumped in favor of SAS because both couldnt get rid of something that SAS did. Free - HiJackTHis. Run with SAS and you should be spyware free. Lastly get CCcleaner and run it weekly to clear cookies, temp files nad various junk. Now in terms of external harddrives, theyre pretty much all the same. LaCies seem to have a sturdier chassis but Ive used Simpletech and WD Books and they run just fine. However, Id be wary of the newer Seagates that run 7200.11 drives. Theyve been crashing and bricking left and right. Price wise a 500Gb should be around 60-70 and 1Tb should be 110. If you look around staples and office depot theyve been clearancing out 320gb for around 40-50. Or you can buy a 250gb for around 40 and a case for around 10 ish and just put it together. Very easy.

01-27-2009, 10:02 PM	#25
endlesszeal Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 2,068 iTrader: 0 / 0% Rep Power: 68	i think a software firewall is good for redundancy to catch stuff that hardware doesnt see, especially when torrenting. example, i was dling some anime and some butt fu*k from china tried sending a packet sniffer with the torrents and norton caught it and blocked it from getting in. as for having a linksys, the stock firmware sucks. if you have some of the older versions v1-v4 you can run alot of 3rd party firmware. the new ones might be able to run dd-wrt micro depending on version. they have a lot more features and more stable epsecially with heavy usage.

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