The W2k forum has given me great leads to Adaware, AVG and Zonealarm. My ISP also runs a firewall. I ran Kapersky Online scan out of curiosity and it "found" 6 virus and 35 infections, although it was hard to decipher their report. I hadn't heard W2k was hard to protect now, where could I have left doors open? Is there a forum article I haven't found yet, explaining exact function and limitations of these protection softwares?

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Win2k is not hard to protect. Both Adaware and Zonealarm are very good apps, however, 
I have lost my faith with AVG.
Try the free Avast anti-virus. It will also protect against malware.
Let the Kapersky Online scan get rid of the infections before you install Avast.
I have worked on a few systems as of late in which AVG let some virus' get through
I installed Avast on them and it promptly got rid of them. 

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You probably don't practice safe Web surfing, and probably don't practice safe email handling is my guess. Security apps can only do so much. They really can't protect a User from themselves. I think the Security Apps can offer more a False Sense of Security, then Security.

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If one goes to Lost Wages and you stop in at one of the many RED Light houses it's 
good chance you will pickup something you don't want to take home with you..same 
thing is true for the WWW...

Email is about the same, if you don't know who sent the email item then you don't 
need it.. :( unless you like playing Russia Roulette)


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On Friday, February 22, 2008 at 2:41 pm, Steve wrote:

>You probably don't practice safe Web surfing, and probably don't practice safe email 

>handling is my guess. Security apps can only do so much. They really can't protect 

>a User from themselves. I think the Security Apps can offer more a False Sense of 

>Security,  then Security. 

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Yea Dex, a little commonsense.exe goes along way

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Just to follow up. The infections, Trojans, whatever, resulted from downloads of free utilities such as Afreeripper-----just in case you wondered? All were downloaded to desktop and scanned with both Adaware and AVG. Warned by Kapersky where to look,recently found Avast took them out. So Avast seems to score best------------?? Is this a common experience?


On Friday, February 22, 2008 at 10:29 am, Len wrote:
>The W2k forum has given me great leads to Adaware, AVG and Zonealarm.
>My ISP also runs a firewall. I ran Kapersky Online scan out of curiosity and it
>"found" 6 virus and 35 infections, although it was hard to decipher their report.
>I hadn't heard W2k was hard to protect now, where could I have left doors open? Is
>there a forum article I haven't found yet, explaining exact function and limitations
>of these protection softwares?

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You do have to watch out on Freeware these days. A lot of Freeware authors now get paid to Bundle Adware, and Spyware in their applications. The Virus, and Spyware writers are ahead of the Antivirus utitlities. It is always a catch up game. So you really can't trust your AV software to catch things you download, and install yourself. P2P downloads of all kinds are filled with a lot of Malware also.

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