Spyware

Frankly... Firewalls are for girls, Real men just secures their Windows System without using any resources..

I have been working on a super tutorial, Ill try see if I can finish it up tonight and post the link to it, It is almost complete, I just need to fine polish it.

Myself I have never ever used a Firewalll, never been hacked either, atleast not that i know of so no harm has been done.

Viruses and Trojans has never been an issue either.

99% of all Spyware is prevented by 1 simple MSIE cookie setting.

Aslong as you keep that setting on, and thinks twice before you download files from suspecious sites (eg download m5sum.exe from http://some_jibberish_host.ru/~files/md5sum.exe instead of getting it from the author at http://www.etree.org/md5com.html) and you NEVER EVER clicks "Yes" to trust ActiveX popups unless its signed by sites like http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and http://www.macromedia.com then you dont have to worry about Spyware, Viruses and Trojans. A Trusty AV tool that runs in the background (And I dont mean Norton AV!) and Adaware once a month.

The tut i wrote has all these neat little tweaks to make your system as secure as it is possible to secure WindowsXP while still having access to the Express Highway (The Internet).

Click

I have some tips and tricks on a hard copy somewhere, Ill dig that up aswell in the near future.

Seems i have fixed the problem eith your help....I deactivated the warning system/pop ups...havent seen one so far. I ran Bitdefender too,...nice little program! found dirty little files that adaware and spybot didint...

Cheers.

Cap,

Where did you find "bitdefender"??

Shigoto

exactly.