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| Opium Deactivated User 300 Posts 3/12 |  Posted - Mar 28 2012 : 11:38PMi currently use a router with my PC, but since the 2nd PC in my home is now gone i don't really need it any more. then i read on a website that a router firewall is better/more secure than a windows/PC router (don't know what to call it). is this true, and as long as i have a good antivirus with a firewall does it matter whether or not i still use a router with the new PC i plan on getting? Edited by - Opium on Mar 28 2012  [Link] |
Hardware  All-Star Member Your other left 14594 Posts 3/02 | Posted - Mar 29 2012 : 3:21AM On the other hand, if your first concern when you are thinking of downloading a file off of the internet is to make sure that it is not going to mess up your computer, then you are probably the type that can use a PC based security solution effectively.  [Link] |
| Redish Poetic Moderator Long and Cursive road to the Ivory Pagoda in the province of Loraine 4076 Posts 12/03 | Posted - Mar 29 2012 : 5:57PM [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Mar 29 2012 : 10:01PM Besides my PC's, I currently have 3 DVR's, 2 Blu-ray players, an XM Internet Radio, a WDTV media player and my cell phone that all access my network either through ethernet or via Wifi. I need a router in order for any of these components to access the network. [Link] |
| jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04 | Posted - Mar 30 2012 : 1:44AM [Link] |
| cubesnake Senior Member 3858 Posts 10/02 | Posted - Mar 30 2012 : 5:42AM on occasions you may turn of the firewall of your os and maybe forget to turn it on again. If you don´t have a router than you are unprotected. I don´t know if this is still true but years ago it took about 10 minutes to catch a virus if your pc was idle on a modem double condom sounds good to me ... and it doesn´t stop there. Having a pop-up-blocker and scriptblocker is very important too ... besides a good antivirus soft of course Maybe people should only surf via "virtual machines" or use "LINUX Live CDs" The internet becomes more and more dangerous to those who are not "geeks" or professors Cube Edited by - cubesnake on 3/30/2012 5:46:45 AM [Link] |
| Opium Deactivated User 300 Posts 3/12 | Posted - Mar 30 2012 : 6:47AM Edited by - Opium on 3/30/2012 6:48:49 AM [Link] |
| BYOB_Kenobi Senior Member “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” - Kierkegaard 2684 Posts 8/09 | Posted - Apr 11 2012 : 4:50AM Edited by - BYOB_Kenobi on 4/11/2012 4:51:32 AM [Link] |
| Hardware All-Star Member Your other left 14594 Posts 3/02 | Posted - Apr 11 2012 : 2:25PM [Link] |
| Goldstein All-Star Member "You have sacrificed nothing and no one." 3689 Posts 8/10 | Posted - Apr 11 2012 : 2:48PM I also strongly advise a good software firewall. A software firewall is typically in addition to your active anti-virus/anti-malware real-time software you are using (although some of your better suites come with an integrated firewall). Windows firewall is just about useless. VIPRE Internet Security 2012 is an exceptionally good software with an integrated firewall. VIPRE® Internet Security combines next-generation antivirus and antispyware technologies with a bi-directional firewall and spam and web filtering for all-in-one protection against malware. [Link] |
| cubesnake Senior Member 3858 Posts 10/02 | Posted - Apr 11 2012 : 2:58PM Cube [Link] |
| Goldstein All-Star Member "You have sacrificed nothing and no one." 3689 Posts 8/10 | Posted - Apr 11 2012 : 3:02PM If it relates to my post, I'd like to know. Otherwise, I don't really care  [Link] |
| cubesnake Senior Member 3858 Posts 10/02 | Posted - Apr 11 2012 : 7:42PM Cube [Link] |
| jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04 | Posted - Apr 11 2012 : 7:49PM At least that's been my experience. [Link] |
| Goldstein All-Star Member "You have sacrificed nothing and no one." 3689 Posts 8/10 | Posted - Apr 11 2012 : 8:24PM The average person merely has to install it, let it update itself and let it run its scans -- updating and scanning defaults will occur if the user just leaves it alone to do its thing. Sad truth may be that, the average person is too stupid to do even this. Personally, I've relaxed the software, in that, I have over-ridden the automatic default updating and scanning settings, choosing instead to update and scan when I choose to. Since I work with a great deal of video, I find it inconvenient to have these processes launch and run while I'm working. With the firewall, specifically, I use the standard settings to this day. I could go into a learning mode (where I would teach the program which sites to block and allow, etc.), but this becomes annoying -- and completely not necessary. I can also set sites to allow ahead of time. However, I choose not to. Visiting porn-related sites as we are like to do, meets up with sites that VIPRE flags as "malicious" (AEBN for example), and I have chosen to defer to VIPRE's judgement in these matters. FYI, I'd say a good 10-to-20 percent of free pics and video sites, like you would encounter on Freeones, get flagged as "malicious." VIPRE is a great product -- the absolute best I've ever used. FYI, about four years ago I was so fed up with my paid version of AVG that, I uninstalled it with eight-months still remaining on my license, and switched to VIPRE. (Yes, AVG was that bad.) Best decision I ever made in this regard. [Link] |
| cubesnake Senior Member 3858 Posts 10/02 | Posted - Apr 11 2012 : 11:56PM Cube [Link] |
| Opium Deactivated User 300 Posts 3/12 | Posted - Apr 12 2012 : 1:48AM as far as AVG paid version IMO it's fine and is much better than norton, which is what i used prior and got several viruses and trojans. [Link] |
| Goldstein All-Star Member "You have sacrificed nothing and no one." 3689 Posts 8/10 | Posted - Apr 12 2012 : 6:21AM [Link] |
| Goldstein All-Star Member "You have sacrificed nothing and no one." 3689 Posts 8/10 | Posted - Apr 12 2012 : 6:31AM |
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