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Dorin Cheptea wrote:
> It was Piotr that suggested to have more tools to monitor web trafic. In 
> fact, I followed his advice and installed 3 of them: Process Explorer, 
> PeerGuardian, and NetLimiter 2 Monitor. But they are not anti-spyware. 
> The first one is a process monitor which offers more information. 
> However, note that my computer crashed once after installing it. I then 
> restarted the computer twice and since then everything was all right. 
> PeerGuardian blocks many websites from accessing your computer. You 
> would have nice options such as allowing those sites individually for 15 
> minutes, 1 hour, 24 hours or permanently. Just be aware that with it, if 
> you cannot access something, the cause might be this program. The last 
> program allows to access percentages of bandwidth to different 
> processes. I haven't find any practical used for it to me personally, 
> except maybe that some statistics it provides is slightly currious. I am 
> thinking of uninstalling the latter because my computer already runs slow.
>  
> For antivirus, I am using Avast now, and I am satisfied with it. 
> Previously I used Avira, but ithat was a little annoying because the 
> freeware came with permanent invitaions to buy the full product, and it 
> made my computer work slow. I chose it for two reasons: a 
> sysadmin recommended it as being the antivirus he uses on his home 
> computer, and also I installed it as a test on my parents' computer 
> which wasn't updated for quite some time, and it detected and cleaned 
> the computer of several viruses. However, be aware that you will need to 
> have patience with installing Avast, since it will recommend a general 
> scan of your computer at first restart, which takes about 2 hours. Also, 
> you might need to restart it twice, and after updating virus 
> definitions, you might want to do another scan. In short, time consuming 
> when you install it.
>  
> ...Now if you say you reinstalled Windows XP, your biggest worries would 
> be now to get Service Packs 2, 3, and 3.5. You will need to restart your 
> computer about a dosen times in total for them to take full effect. 
> Note, also, that after SP 3.5 your printer might not work. Make another 
> windows update, and you'll find there an update that fixes exactly this 
> problem.
>  
> I am also using another antivirus: ThreatFire. It claims to be based on 
> a totally different approach, such as monitoring current activity. I am 
> just using it to complement the other protections. But it slows your 
> computer visibly.
>  
> For anti-spyware I have Spybot - Search & Destroy and Ad-Aware. I have 
> used them for several years now. In the past they were detecting quite a 
> nummber of spywares, but recently they detect very few. Ad-Aware slows 
> the computer a lot, and I am thinking to uninstall it if I would find a 
> good replacement.
>  
> Good luck,
> Dorin
> 
> 
>  
> 2009/5/9 Miacek and his crime-fighting dog <miacek08@googlemail.com 
> <mailto:miacek08@googlemail.com>>
> 
>     Thanx, I'll try Avast (I have Adaware right now and have had AVG
>     previously). Neither of them was of very much use.
> 
>     M.
> 
>     On 09/05/2009, Alexia Death <alexiadeath@gmail.com
>     <mailto:alexiadeath@gmail.com>> wrote:
>      > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Miacek and his crime-fighting dog <
>      > miacek08@googlemail.com <mailto:miacek08@googlemail.com>> wrote:
>      >
>      >> In one of the previous threads, someone suggested some free
>     programs,
>      >> I think. Could you remind me? I re-installed Windows XP and
>     would like
>      >> to have some good anti-spyware / antivirus stuff.
>      >>
>      >> Miacek.
>      >
>      > AVG Free or Avast. Just don't install more than one.
>      >
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