Jim's Comments about Windows Vista and Antivirus software

re: Jim's Comments about Windows Vista and Antivirus software

James — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:17:06 GMT

I agree, anti-virus is more overrated than anything you have 100 alarms to your firewall and a pop up for each one to click on. its like 99.9999999999999999% of all firewall alarms are just you trying to do normal stuff and not someone actually hacking your computer.

re: Jim's Comments about Windows Vista and Antivirus software

nksingh — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 07:44:18 GMT

I don't really see how antivirus can do anything against the real threats I'm worried about: worms and attacks against exposed services. If it's a trojan, then I'm not likely to be affected by it since I use my computer for work with the few programs I have and not for screwing around with trifles from the internet. This seems to be the only kind of attack that antivirus programs can prevent.

I'd rather rely on safe computing and in-built security than install more exploitable and usually nasty code in security-sensitive paths.

re: Jim's Comments about Windows Vista and Antivirus software

Michael Howard — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:06:17 GMT

>>So, your wife gets to be the brave person cruising the web without protection, eh?

So there's the issue - my wife doesn't "Cruise the Web" she goes to about a dozen sites. That's it.

>>Not brave enough to try it yourself (or just prevented from doing so by corporate policy?)

you hit it on the head - domain policy!!

re: Jim's Comments about Windows Vista and Antivirus software

Rodger — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:11:42 GMT

So, your wife gets to be the brave person cruising the web without protection, eh? Not brave enough to try it yourself (or just prevented from doing so by corporate policy?)

re: Jim's Comments about Windows Vista and Antivirus software

Karla Eisele — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 04:26:55 GMT

Help!! My browser seems to be hijacked by something called iesecure--it has decided it is going to be my homepage and blocks most webpages from loading. This thing keeps telling me that my computer is infected with spyware. It even has a popup window that announces that "W32.Myzor.FK@yf is a virus that attempts to infect *.exe files. It attempts to steal passwords and private information from the infected computer."

It doesn't say that my computer is infected, though. There are many links on the page to other sites that want me to buy the product, such as "Spy Heal", at http://spyheal.com/?aid=561, and others with similar addresses.

Do you know what this is? Can you help me get rid of it?