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offline nanotech from Sukavasti Amitaba Pureland (United States) on 2003-12-20 21:12 [#01000148]
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NAV 2k4, and NAV 2k4 pro; does anyone know the major
diffrences between the 2?

Also, What about Norton Personal firewall? I'm starting to
get pissed from my Zone Alarm app.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2003-12-20 21:17 [#01000154]
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The Pro version of NAV now includes shit to trash your hard
drive completely, meaning no longer do you have to worry
about the possibility of recovering data. It also slows
your system to a crawl faster than any previous version of
Norton.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2003-12-20 21:20 [#01000158]
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The Pro version of NAV includes a data recovery thingy that
lets you restore important stuff that you may have
accidently deleted.

And a data smasher that deletes all traces of files you
don't want the po po to find (eg. your masses of teen girl
porn stored in your My Documents folder at this very
minute).

Norton Personal Firewall is OK, one of the better software
firewalls on the market. Although I still have a problem
with the whole cost v. free issue.


 

offline nanotech from Sukavasti Amitaba Pureland (United States) on 2003-12-20 21:20 [#01000159]
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then what would you sugest i get? mcafee?


 

offline nanotech from Sukavasti Amitaba Pureland (United States) on 2003-12-20 21:24 [#01000169]
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"I still have a problem
with the whole cost v. free issue."

yeah, speaking of that....

I'm assuming that NAV phones home when it tires to update
virus definitions. Does it rat me out? How does retriving
current definitions work, w/ a warez copy?


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2003-12-20 21:29 [#01000176]
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hmm...the only two things I would never run a warez copy on
my computer of are

a) Firewall

b) Anti Virus Package

It's just asking for trouble. What's to say the programs
haven't been altered some way to make them look as though
they are working while giving someone else complete access
to your system?


 

offline x0hx from Lysdexia (United States) on 2003-12-23 00:33 [#01002725]
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Different context, but check NOD32. Heard alot of good about
it. Don't use it, personally; I have always used NAV
(cringe) myself. Currently using 2K3, and it's OK for me on
98SE. The console is way slow as fuck though.
Remember, firewalls (software *especially*) and AV's are not
the highest , best, whatever protection you can get for home
use. I'm glad people are catching on to spyware scanners.
There's also trojan scanners as well (those custom made
programs just for trojan scans). IDS (Intrusion Detection
Systems) might be going to far for home usage (too much time
spent deciphering logs, etc.) b/c nobody I know runs IDS or
trojan scanners @ home.


 


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