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Choosing anti spyware software is no easy task
A MAN FROM PC TOOLS has given his advice on how to choose software that prevents nasty people from using your machine as a bot or nicking your banking details on the interwibble.
Michael Greene, VP in charge of product strategy at PC Tools software, said that quite a few products available use regularly updated signatures which mean that it's done "after the fact".
Faced with the choice of countless anti-malware software, Greene said that people should check out reviews, see if the software offers free trials, whether it's easy to use, whether it provides auto-updates and also offers real time protection.
Naturally, a man from a software vendor has something of an axe to grind, and he claims that the firm's "Threatfire" software is based on behavioural analysis of a threat, rather than just relying on signatures.
And yeah, there's a free trial of the software,
here. µ
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Guide to Free Anti-Spyware
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Just whitelist what can be run - anything else is forbidden.
Also, any OS-critical point (registry anyone ?) needs authorization to modify.
Oh, darn it. There goes the installation procedure of 99.9% of all the crap you can download.
There's a lot of anti-spyware software that claims to fight effectively various kinds of spy programs, but very few are really. A friend of mine is very careful about security, he's constantly googling in search of some protecting tools, he does not recommend anything new and unknown, as ussually install an anti-virus, a firewall and some anti-spyware, but he says it's preferable to have a specialized anti-keylogging program as keyloggers are often difficult to deal with and they may cause a lot of trouble. He tests different programs and also agrees that programs using heuristic principles are more efective than those signature-based and adds that he managed to find a program, PrivacyKeyboard, which in his tests was not yet surpassed by some other anti-keylogger, I saw some of his experiments, decided to install it, seems to do well. I believe people who deal with sensitive information should really carefully choose protective means.
What I need is an adblock extension that blocks ad-articles.. apparently..

Perhaps a new word is in order too 'adticles'
Since so many sites now do them.
Who needs it except noobs?
http://symantec-sucks.blogspot.com/
Is there really someone stupid enough to say that only noobs need anti spyware. I suppose that statement is true if only noobs actually use their computer.