On 01/11/2010 22:48, Michael Watterson wrote:
>    On 01/11/2010 20:41, Oli Glaser wrote:
>> On 01/11/2010 19:17, Michael Watterson wrote:
>>> I haved  use Eagle, JALedit, MPLAB, MS Office, Thunderbird, Firefox,
>>> Foxit (pdfs) a 1600x1200 screen, sometimes an external 1600x1200 at sam=
e
>>> time
>>> AADE, Spice and Scilab
>> Fair enough, probably a few other random and complex factors involved in
>> the differences.
>> One thing pops to mind though - maybe I should have mentioned I have
>> Norton 360 running too, which although good seems to eat a lot of
>> resources. Out of interest, what anti virus are you using?
>>
> Training....
> Separate Firewall and disable all MS network services that run on top of
> TCP/IP if not using  a firewall
> Up to date Foxit for PDF
> Up to date Firefox
> External HTML&  Images disabled by default in Thunderbird
> never open executable attachments or install toolbars on browsers
> Zero pirate software or videos etc
> Codecs only from official sites...
> Un-needed and dodgy MS services off
> file extensionson
> No autorun of any kind on any device, ever...
> Up to date MS patches.
> Never use IE except for Windows Update
> Never use Outlook
> No file, telnet, printer or other hosting service running on anything
> other than a server
> no uPnP/ SSD (Hello I'm here install your malware disguised as Driver on =
me)
> No adhoc wifi
>
> Occasionally I use a root kit detectors (gmer isn't bad) and
> silentrunners from www.silentrunners.org to verify cleanness.
>
> This approach has resulted in zero infections for nearly 20 years
> on my PC and all the others here and also for people I have trained and
> configured their windows...
> DOS 3.3, DRDOS, MSDOS 6.22, win3.1 WFW3.11, 95, 98, NT3.51, NT4.0,
> Win2K, XP, Vista, Win7
>
> All the many computers I've cleaned malware from had AV installed and
> running. Some up to date.
>
> AV causes problems, false positives, failure to boot, false sense of
> security and is doomed to fail if users are determined to click install
> when asked (eg offer to scan PC to speed up on web advert or offer to
> install codec automatically on random web site).
>
>
>

Thanks for the info/advice. Will see how I go as regards a seperate=20
firewall etc - follow quite a bit of the above already, but not all (I=20
do use uPnP).
All depends on how much time I have to do things "properly", never=20
enough time... :-)



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