I have a HP Computer. It came with Windows Live One Care witch I find fantastic. I would like some help with some of the best program protection possible to help keep my computer away from risk. Such as:
Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Extra Protection, Virus Vault, Scanning ECT.
I suppose you can never have too much protection, but I would be interested to know if what I have is good enough or not enough
I have got Avast (could not go with AVG as its such a chore to shut the processes down) SpywareBlaster Spybot Search and Destroy Windows Defender (although I am not sure if this is any good, read somewhere that this was the program responsible for Nvidia Card users getting the famous "....... driver has stopped responding" error, its currently enabled on my system, but I am yet to have a long playing session, so I can't say if this error still comes up with or without Windows Defender.
Come to that, the driver error may not have anything to do with the Windows Defender.......I tend to believe everything I read so maybe someone more wise to this can say whether this is true or not. But my main question is, do I have enough to protect my Computer?
I get a small alert window pop into the middle of the screen called "ENTER NETWORK PASSWORD" then text saying "type your username and password" Then there is three boxes with the details of my username etc and my password ****'d out. I can click "OK" or "CANCEL" or "CLOSE" but the box comes back. I am running Symantec virus protector and it finds nothing and Spybot and it shows there is a couple of items it can't correct unless I have admin profile.
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Code: Scan saved at 17:17:35, on 09/06/2008
Platform: Unknown Windows (WinNT 6.00.1904)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16643)
Running processes:
C:Windowssystem32 askeng.exe
C:Windowssystem32Dwm.exe
C:windowsSMINSTscheduler.exe
C:Program FilesWindows DefenderMSASCui.exe
C:Program FilesPDF Completepdfsty.exe
C:Program FilesBrotherBrmfcmonBrMfcWnd.exe
C:Program FilesWinZip E-Mail Companionloadwzco.exe
C:windowsSystem32igfxtray.exe
C:windowsSystem32hkcmd.exe
C:windowsSystem32igfxpers.exe
C:Program FilesCommon FilesSymantec SharedccApp.exe
C:Windowssystem32igfxsrvc.exe
C:Program FilesSymantec AntiVirusVPTray.exe
C:Program FilesJavajre1.6.0_05injusched.exe...................
I use a dvd-rw as a backup, using the 'live file formatting' option. No problems. How can I password protect the disc ?
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