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Aye, NoScript, combined with the AdAware plug-in = pretty awesome browsing Kind regards as always. Ryan Carson - Director Refresh Creations Ltd --------------------- Web: http://www.refreshcreations.co.uk/ Tel: 0845 09 42 987 Fax: 0870 80 30 989 -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Terry Hill Sent: 07 September 2007 14:34 To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [LUG] OT: McAfee If you're going for firefox, theres a good extension called noscript which I swear by. Basically stops scripts running unless you allow them. Bit like a firewall for web browsing, in a sense. On 06/09/2007, Simon Avery <flash@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Simon Williams wrote: > > > McAfee? *shiver*. Don't. It's horrible. It's the buggiest, slowest, most > > bloated, self-inflating piece of "software" I have ever had the > > misfortune to use. > > Steer clear of Norton then, it's even worse. > > > For your antivirus- get avast (also called AVG), > > No. > > Avast is Avast (www.avast.com) > AVG is AVG (free.grisoft.com) > > You don't need to register for AVG. I use it with reasonable success on > several windows machines, and clamav with sanesecurities sigs on the > email gateway (with sa-exim, exim4, procmail, spamasassin and fuzzyocr) > which keeps out pretty much all non user-requested viruses and the > majority of the spam (including the pdf stuff). > > Switching your Win users away from Outlook and IE onto Thunderbird and > Firefox *significantly* reduces the chances of infection too. IME they > really don't notice anyway. > > > -- > Simon Avery > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.485 / Virus Database: 269.13.8/993 - Release Date: 06/09/2007 15:18 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.485 / Virus Database: 269.13.8/993 - Release Date: 06/09/2007 15:18 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html