computer help

Oh dear, so much mis-information coming out!  I would suggest you all search the propper IT forums!

Kaspersky always has and always will let through more than it stops, it's only a simple generic antivirus prog.   As indeed are all other cheap or free so called antivirus solutions.  and the only thing they are any use for is detecting such things as the old MS Word viruses.  
Norton is no longer the same reliable company that saved Microsoft's DOS 5 many years ago, the suite they hardsell now takes over your computer and slows it down.  More important is that it is so very easily hacked by Trojans, which is why this guy at the top of this thread can no longer run a full scan without a high proportion of his files being ignored!  (Well they will be won't they!  And any other poor quality scanner will get confused because these files are being held by Norton as 'suspicious' but with no conclusion as to whether they've already been tagged as malicious or not - to the corrupt Norton they've been taken out of the eqation, probably held in cyberspace somewhere?).

Good computer protection costs a lot of money per year.  There are many components of mallware protection and they require a balance of probably three sets of software installed to provide even a minimum level of detection.

BTW.  In this context, there's no diference between a USB modem and any other type of modem.  This USB is purely the connection between the modem and the computer.  Whatever the connection you still need firewall (and not just  IP address translation) software on your computer.  Sadly, this in itself these days is useless - they only close off the ports traditionally  used for infiltration into your computer.  These days all mallware comes into your computer via port 80, and guess what - everything you view on "t'interweb" comes in via port 80!

Oh I do wish that I didn't work in IT Technical Support -  it donarf get tedious !!

Spuggy wrote: Oh dear, so much mis-information coming out!  I would suggest you all search the propper IT forums! Kaspersky always has and always will let through more than it stops, it's only a simple generic antivirus prog.   As indeed are all other cheap or free so called antivirus solutions.  and the only thing they are any use for is detecting such things as the old MS Word viruses.

http://www.consumersearch.com/antivirus-software

http://internet-security-suite-review.toptenreviews.com

I have Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 installed, and it catches a lot more than Word viruses.

Has there ever been a murder of a hacker by the owner of the corrupted pc? 

Time for the hacked to do some hacking I say.Hack for hack.

Spuggy wrote: I accept that Kaspersky has improved, yet from what I see on BB's it still has a very long way to go.

I also notice from the stats, ZoneAlarm Internet Security is rated above Kaspersky by some people.

Zonealarm was the best firewall software for a long time, but now it has Kaspersky AV technology, it seems well 'ard.

Problem is, I now understand every bit of config in Kaspersky, and even though my current PC is just  a dual core 3.0 ghz Pentium 530 Prescott HT, with 2gb ram +XPSP3, even with Kaspersky running, I can still play games, whilst in the background, Outlook, Firefox3, IE, MSN Messenger are still running.

nickyburnell wrote: Keep it Lev.

OK, if you insist..

Favourite bits about Kas is when alarm box pops up when Utorrent or Limewire has "just" finished downloading s/w or music, and Kas says its dody, or when MSN Messenger periodically tries to connect somewhere or phone home without my permission.

Also being able to config which Apps are allowed to even run, never mind access the net is invaluable.