trojan horses found ( Archived) (75)

as i said

i know about firewalls and stuff and why on earth
would i ever use IE?

thanks folks just tryin to be vigilant that our fave site remain safe

see ya later

me too

Im not gonna say what I use....

Pick axe???

I use both Avast and Firefox. So far I haven't had a problem here.
Quit using IE some time ago




Earl

Test your firewall:




I'm as close to invisible as possible using Kerio Firewall.

Malware enters through many ports. Often standard ones yes but, that is why we also use a firewall that compares a digital signature of a file to be sure that myfile.exe that we allowed to access the internet last month is the same file instead of malware with the same name that replaced it last night.

Malwarebytes is a great program but it does not catch everything and if you are running the free version it gives you no active protection. Even if you have to add RAM to support it it is a good idea to have active anti-virus and anti-spy running all of the time. Avira Free and Avast Free are fine as is AVG Free if your computer has enough power to run the bloated program it is now. Spybot Search and Destroy is a good anti-spyware with a blocking feature that will save you plenty of headaches if you update and immunize every week.

I do as well. The only time I have had any problems on here was when I was using the "IM". I just turned it off and started telling everybody to email me. It got on my nerves anyway.