The WSN Security Baseline
~BD~
"A minimum of three products are necessary to give your PC comprehensive
protection against hackers. These are (1) a hardware firewall, (2) a
software security suite, and (3) a patch-management solution to stay current
with patches. We don't operate a test lab and don't rate products. Instead,
we summarize the top ratings of trusted reviewers"
That is how the article at Windows Secrets starts.
http://windowssecrets.com/reviews/security-baseline/
Just about everyone proffering 'advice' here on the Microsoft groups advises
*against* the use of Norton products. As far as I'm aware Windows Secrets is
a well thought of organisation (Home page http://windowssecrets.com/ ) and
now has over 400,000 subscribers. If the advice being given to these
subscribers is wrong, is anyone here able to help rectify matters?
Your views welcomed.
Dave
Peter Foldes
Yes it is
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Peter
Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
~BD~
You know full well that I am only interested in the truth.The truth, though,
is something you just do not seem to understand.
If you believe 'Windows Secrets' to be SPAM, then say so. My message here is
definitely NOT - I was asking what others thought of the advice given
therein. Surely, is that not what these groups are designed for?
Dave
"Peter Foldes" <ok...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Leonard Grey
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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est
R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008 (PC Magazine)
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2326848,00.asp
AlmostBob
Break the links in your questions, http:/ /www.something.com
still human readable but a little less likeliehood of over reaction from
anyone.
Reviewers dont use the products they write about,
use them for a long time,
or suffer from having to remove them when the uninstallers dont work.
Test driving the car doesnt prove its fuel economy or maintainence costs
Norton products do what they promise, but they dont tell you how slowly,
intrusively, they do it in the reviews or marketing.
Average user responses of the software being a hog, are more reliable, on
any scale, 1 reviewer, or 1000 users, go with the users.
Reviewers just restore the drive image of the day before they put on any
crapware, and its gone.
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Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de
spybot http://www.safer-networking.org
AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com
Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/ActiveScan/
Catalog of removal tools (1)
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Catalog of removal tools (2)
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/newsinfo/collateral.aspx?CID=40387
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use
Grateful thanks to the authors and webmasters
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~BD~
You appear to be recommending that I do not post 'live' links in messages
here - is that correct?
Your own signature block has live links (as do those of many others posting
here). Perhaps that is acceptable.
Dave
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"AlmostBob" <anony...@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Dave
> Break the links in your questions, http:/ /www.something.com
> still human readable but a little less likeliehood of over reaction from
> anyone.
>
> Reviewers dont use the products they write about,
> use them for a long time,
> or suffer from having to remove them when the uninstallers dont work.
> Test driving the car doesnt prove its fuel economy or maintainence costs
>
> Norton products do what they promise, but they dont tell you how slowly,
> intrusively, they do it in the reviews or marketing.
>
> Average user responses of the software being a hog, are more reliable, on
> any scale, 1 reviewer, or 1000 users, go with the users.
>
> Reviewers just restore the drive image of the day before they put on any
> crapware, and its gone.
>
<snip>
~BD~
high-tech e-mail newsletters: Brian's Buzz on Windows was edited by Brian
Livingston beginning February 2003, and Woody's Windows Watch was founded by
Woody Leonhard in 1998. The two publications merged on July 22, 2004, and
began using the domain name WindowsSecrets.com at that time. Brian's 50,000
subscribers joined Woody's 100,000-strong list to form a combined,
unduplicated subscriber base of about 140,000.
The LangaList, an e-mail newsletter edited since 1997 by Fred Langa (left),
merged with Windows Secrets on Nov. 16, 2006. Adding its 145,000 subscribers
resulted in a publication with a circulation of about 270,000. Prior to
starting the LangaList, Fred was editor of Byte Magazine (1987 to 1991) and
editorial director of CMP Media (1991 to 1996), overseeing Windows Magazine
and others. He was editor or editor-at-large of the Windows Secrets
Newsletter from November 2006 to May 2008, when he retired.
The Support Alert Newsletter, a publication edited by Ian "Gizmo" Richards
for most of its existance from 1998 to 2008, merged with Windows Secrets on
July 24, 2008. Combining Support Alert's 150,000 subscribers with Windows
Secrets pushed the total circulation over 400,000.
Today, Windows Secrets is also distributed via an RSS feed with tens of
thousands of recipients, and the site delivers more than 1 million page
views per month.
(Copied from the Windows Secrets web site - here:-
hxxp://windowssecrets.com/about/ )
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