Comments on: How to protect your PC from spyware http://robwhitehouse.com/windows/how-to-protect-your-pc-from-spyware/ A bunch of random notes from working in IT Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:54:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Rob http://robwhitehouse.com/windows/how-to-protect-your-pc-from-spyware/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Rob Sun, 07 Jan 2007 04:27:29 +0000 http://robwhitehouse.com/software/how-to-protect-your-pc-from-spyware/#comment-16 Spybot's Scan And Defend has always been a decent "after the event" application - it's very good at identifying problems once they've already occurred. I agree that it's a top program - but as a rule I don't want the malware to get anywhere near my system! I want it to be blocked at the source, not to be repaired and fixed once I've been infected to the hills. It's like why you wear a condom - yes, syphilis can be cured but let's be fair, you don't want it in the first place! Now I'm a realist - I know that total protection is a pipe dream. But I still believe that real-time protection is essential; and that the biggest barrier to this is the bottleneck caused by disk I/O in 99.9% of computers... Spybot’s Scan And Defend has always been a decent “after the event” application – it’s very good at identifying problems once they’ve already occurred. I agree that it’s a top program – but as a rule I don’t want the malware to get anywhere near my system! I want it to be blocked at the source, not to be repaired and fixed once I’ve been infected to the hills. It’s like why you wear a condom – yes, syphilis can be cured but let’s be fair, you don’t want it in the first place!

Now I’m a realist – I know that total protection is a pipe dream. But I still believe that real-time protection is essential; and that the biggest barrier to this is the bottleneck caused by disk I/O in 99.9% of computers…

]]> By: Evilpandas http://robwhitehouse.com/windows/how-to-protect-your-pc-from-spyware/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Evilpandas Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:04:45 +0000 http://robwhitehouse.com/software/how-to-protect-your-pc-from-spyware/#comment-15 Having got my first bit of spyware in about 2 years I have recomend the old war horse Spybot. It did the job removing the nasty bit of spyware. I mean however good the half naked ladies are on the spyware asking you pay £4 a go they do get annoying. Having got my first bit of spyware in about 2 years I have recomend the old war horse Spybot. It did the job removing the nasty bit of spyware. I mean however good the half naked ladies are on the spyware asking you pay £4 a go they do get annoying.

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