PC probs..Knoppix Time...cheapest Windows 7??

[Undercover Elsa]

Re: PC probs..Knoppix Time...cheapest Windows 7??

Anyone have any preferences for cloud backup services?

(Need to backup my clouds now the sun's here.. )

[Undercover Elsa]

Re: PC probs..Knoppix Time...cheapest Windows 7??






No need to crow about it!!!

[Undercover Elsa]

Re: PC probs..Knoppix Time...cheapest Windows 7??

I confess I go onto a Poultry Forum occasionally...

[vossy]

Re: PC probs..Knoppix Time...cheapest Windows 7??

Pocket GPS world aint that bad once you hang in for a bit honest....

Sounds a bit like Steam Train World

[philnicandamy]

Re: PC probs..Knoppix Time...cheapest Windows 7??

Pocket GPS world aint that bad once you hang in for a bit honest....

[philnicandamy]

Re: PC probs..Knoppix Time...cheapest Windows 7??

I guess it has a lot to do where you visit and common sense plays a big part too in your armour.

You'd be suprised....i've had the "green" place flag up script virus errors in the past

and for some time in my younger days used to examine & pull apart viruses to see how they ticked...and visiting "special" sites ? I did it once...NEVER again

[vossy]

Re: PC probs..Knoppix Time...cheapest Windows 7??

Ah, I didn't realise it was the same product on steroids! In that case, I should give it a try when this license expires. I've found NOD32 very useful and haven't used bloatware like Norton etc. since 2001!

I also visit some 'high risk' websites been doing so for 15 years and have had very few viral attacks. The worst one was by a disgruntled client who was an IT security specialist!

tut tut tut - shame on you!!

[vossy]

Re: PC probs..Knoppix Time...cheapest Windows 7??

I guess it has a lot to do where you visit and common sense plays a big part too in your armour.

As I said earlier

I have MSE on an XP machine also that Mrs Vossy uses, but she is much more sensible than me

[pompeyfaith]

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must just be me then....I used MSE for a little while and it missed the odd bit of stuff..one VERY nasty infection a few months ago didnt see any of it

used webroot now for a few months & very very happy with it

I guess it has a lot to do where you visit and common sense plays a big part too in your armour.

[philnicandamy]

Re: PC probs..Knoppix Time...cheapest Windows 7??

must just be me then....I used MSE for a little while and it missed the odd bit of stuff..one VERY nasty infection a few months ago didnt see any of it

used webroot now for a few months & very very happy with it

[pompeyfaith]

Re: PC probs..Knoppix Time...cheapest Windows 7??

MSE works well with Win 7 as it was made with win 7 in mind, I have been using MSE ever since I went over to Win 7 from Vista and never had any issues.

[vossy]

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I think we all seem to agree the bloat ware from McAfee Norton etc is pain in the **** and products like Vipre, Nod32, Webroot are the way to go. I guess it's down to personal experience when all is said and done.

FlowerPower, Smart Security is the next step up from ESET's AV package, it has a firewall and a few other extras.

I have always treated Norton as a virus anyway, on many occasions I have removed Norton from someones system that was virtually unusable only for that system to become good again, it burrows into everything and hides away just like a virus.

McAfee I found was always too heavy and now if anyone want's a pretty safe free one I install Microsoft Security Essentials with the warning that if you go where no sensible person would then you will pay the price! For normal use I have found it quite light and although not as good as paid for software it does the job adequately.

[mauijim]

Re: PC probs..Knoppix Time...cheapest Windows 7??

I think we all seem to agree the bloat ware from McAfee Norton etc is pain in the **** and products like Vipre, Nod32, Webroot are the way to go. I guess it's down to personal experience when all is said and done.

FlowerPower, Smart Security is the next step up from ESET's AV package, it has a firewall and a few other extras.

[vossy]

Re: PC probs..Knoppix Time...cheapest Windows 7??

I also use NOD32, have used it most of the time since 2001 although I used Kasperski for a while just because Barclays was offering it for free. I started using NOD32 when one of the big ones let through a couple of nasties that nearly killed my system. I think I was using another AV when I got the SCVHOST infection. Personally I would recommend NOD32, I've never used Smart Security.

I have used Vipre for about three years without problems and I do visit some terrible, nasty and horrible sites , I really must stop myself sometime
Webroot would be my next favourite but I am paid up with Vipre for another 18 months, both are very light on system resources.

[SXGuy]

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How can you say that with 100% certainty? I was assuming that Shepherdess had scanned her external HDD with Avast?

The symptoms she described indicated an intermittent data issue, HDD failure, SATA port issue etc.

Only because the other symptons that were described lead me to believe it was a system virus, not a hardware issue, but it dont matter, all is fixed now.