Spyware

The main things are to make sure you have installed the XP SP2 service pack and Internet Explorer 7, which provide a dramatic increase in security, and that you are running a firewall. AVG also has a rootkit scanner; another good spyware tool with a realtime monitor, registry guardian, and browser immunization is SpyBot Search & Destroy; Secunia PSI is an excellent tool for monitoring the upgrade status of existing installed software and warning you when a newer release is available. It’s very easy to get hit by malware and you’d have to be so very careful using just SP2, IE7, updates and “a firewall” that it would hardly be worth connecting to the ‘net. Ok I may have been a bit tongue in cheek with that one but I use both Macs and windows xp on a daily basis and I’ve got to admit I’ve had less problems with OS X. The average person has no chance at all of understanding what a process manager is, let alone figuring out whether one slightly misspelled process that it shows (assuming the processes are not successfully hiding themselves) is legitimate, and if so what to do about it. If you do extensive online banking or trading, with a large percent of your net worth dependent on the net, start thinking very hard about buying a second machine, only using it for that one purpose to those particular sites. More Spyware News

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