Re: ad aware and spybot - a waste of time???

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_nsattbi.com)
Date: 06/25/03 

Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 01:35:33 GMT

        To reduce the spyware you need to configure your browser to have
more secure settings. It is always a balance between convenience and
security. By hardening your privacy/cookie handling settings and web
content sites security levels you can drastically reduce your amount of
spyware, etc. I put my privacy setting at high and then configure my often
visited sites to be exempt from the default level. Then I set the security
level for the 'internet zone' to high and put my trusted sites into the
trusted site web content zone where I configure the security settings to be
a bit higher than default. That in conjunction with daily updated antivirus,
pop up stopper, and a firewall that also controls outbount access by port,
protocol, ip address AND application [Kerio - free for personal use], allows
me to browse internet fairly well and safely without picking up a ot of
junk. --- Steve

"eli" <eli_yardena@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:#mJ6nIpODHA.2096@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> the problem with ad aware and with spybot is
> they can only delete the spyware but they are unable to
> prevent the spyware from accessing the computer in the first palce...
> so after you have surfed the internet and all your surfing habits have
been
> recorded and transmitted without your knowledge or approaval
> what is the use of deleting them in the end?
> its like living in the desert and leaving all your widows open.
> you can clean the dust all day - but if you are unable to close the
windows
> shut
> the dust will always come in (not to mention the bugs and the mosquitoes!)
> Eli
>
>

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