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Mp3pl4yer31
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my vista machine is 2 days old.
having been driven paranoid by trying to keep my xp machine 'clean' from nastys i was wondering what i need for this one.
i have avast anti-virus, vista seems to have come with windows defender witch from what i can tell is on access.
as for the firewall, is vista's firewall good enouph?
i was using ashampoo free firewall and loved it.
im waffling
basicly can anyone recomend a good list of vista security programs that are freeware.
thanks
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bobnemesis
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Im running Vista Premuim with Zone Alarm, AVG Anti Virus & Anti Spyware, and Spybot.
These do the job for me.
I dont know if Ashampoo is compatible with Vista!
Hope that helps
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Mp3pl4yer31
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thanks for that.
good to know that zone alarm works with vista.
im still unclear as to weather the vista firewall is good enouph. sort of why hog resorces if i dont have to.
i had spybot but was wondering if windows defender is also good enouph.
All this brings about the question . . why cant windows come with GOOD programs installed. Seems to me after a few days using vista, the main differance is eye candy. (very nice eye candy but i guess the novelty will soon go after my first crash)
thanks bobnemesis
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kevmacca
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2 days and your thinking of crashes? zone alarm is much much better than windows firewall, and i agree with bob on spybot s&d, its a must. if you want a deceent firewall that doesn't take up to much resources then try pc.tools firewall.
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FifeFlyer
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Quote:
was wondering if windows defender is also good enough.
Have to say i'm not a fan . 
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shirazee
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How can windows defender be deleted or disabled, can't see it in add/remove programs & couldn't see any options within the program itself?
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FifeFlyer
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shirazee , depends on your operating system. For XP try this....click start > run > and type in msiexec /uninstall windowsdefender.msi /quiet /log uninstall.log > OK.
The other option for both XP and Vista is to download and run the.... windows installer clean up utility..
Also........If you have Spybot or CCleaner , for example , then these apps have sections for uninstalling programmes , although i'm not sure if Windows Defender actually appears in their uninstall lists , you'd have to check it out.
Edited by FifeFlyer (Thu Sep 27 2007 10:37 PM)
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shirazee
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it's not listed on add/remove on any of those either & the uninstall command didn't work so I did a bit of Googling - seems the only way is to disable it, I removed the tick from automatic scanning, disabled the real time protection and removed it from startup. Thanks for your help 
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kevmacca
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i don't see why you would want to disable or uninstall defender its not doing any harm, and must be of some use!
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