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MSE for antivirus, windows' built-in firewall, and nothing else (well, AdBlockPlus or AdMuncher - but those aren't really part of "internet security" per se). Stop wasting time, money and CPU + RAM on useless crap.I'm not disagreeing, but can we discuss this a little bit? I want to explore this in a little more detail. i'd like to avoid saying, this is the best and that's it. I'm sure others will have different opinions, no?-f0dder (January 12, 2011, 10:37 AM)
Maybe they changed that recently. There's an opt-out in the settings.Can you confirm for me? because I tried it less than a month ago.-timns (January 12, 2011, 10:46 AM)
Just out of curiosity, where would you go to study to become an actuary?I almost went into this. I don't know if a specific actuary degree is offered in most universities. In my opinion, I'd get a Statistics degree and mix in some finance/accounting courses. Wouldn't that be just as good if not better? What else do you need to know to be an actuary? I always thought if you were good with statistics, you can do actuarial work fairly easily.-40hz (January 12, 2011, 09:41 AM)
I tried MSE. They have that part where they say they will send your results back to microsoft. And you can't disable it at all. I'd even pay for it if I could get rid of it. But I can't.Maybe I'll go try F-Secure.MSE, man... MSE.-superboyac (January 12, 2011, 09:24 AM)-f0dder (January 12, 2011, 10:05 AM)
It would only be a GUI around several SDKs.huh? I don't get what you said. If you are saying that we are going to CREATE our own software suite, that's not what I meant. I just meant let's create a dc-approved list of software that as a whole would accomplish the same thing as the "official" internet security suites. All we're doing is recommending existing programs.
If anyone has a few 10K to throw at initial licenses, then a few 100k to throw at the project, then it might be a maybe.
Sorry -- I might be a bit jaded from being through this before.-Renegade (January 12, 2011, 10:19 AM)
| PROTECTION TYPE | APPLICATION | PRICE | COMMENTS |
| Real-time Anti-Virus | Microsoft Security Essentials | FREE | Unanimous DonationCoder approval. |
| Anti-Malware | Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware | FREE | Don't use for real-time protection, just as an on-demand scanner. |
| Anti-Malware | SUPERAntiSpyware | FREE | Don't use for real-time protection, just as an on-demand scanner. |
| Software Firewall | Comodo Firewall | FREE | Seems to be the DC choice |
| Hardware Firewall | Your router | varies | |
| Emergency Rootkit Cleaner | ComboFix | FREE | Use with caution. Recommended only for advanced users. |
| Ad Blocker | Ad Muncher (Premium) | ~$30/year | Easily the best. Pricing is difficult to figure out. |
| Anti-Spam | AntispamSniper | $20 (lifetime) |
Well here's a guy who really loves progress bars.Ok, that deserves a level 2 LOL:-Eóin (January 11, 2011, 05:50 PM)
Oh, and I've been guilty of inserting delay timers in two installers I've made, because installation was too damn fast... even on the old machines those several years back when I did the softwareThat's actually nice! It makes me a little uncomfortable when it goes by instantly, i always think something went wrong. (that's what she said)
-f0dder (January 11, 2011, 12:00 PM)
Ok, let me move up to top priority adding code that responds when drives are plugged in or removed. That's been mentioned before in a slightly different context -- a cool idea to have certain buttons or bars show when a drive is inserted.yeah, that would be even better. I just thought it would be harder for you do implement.-mouser (January 11, 2011, 12:00 PM)
One of the saddest things that has happened in modern times is that almost everything you ask your computer to do is done instantly.That's true! I totally miss my lab research days. That free schedule was kind of unique and cool. Now, I have to just work set hours. It was fun going to lab in the morning, letting something run, go do something else for a few hours, come back at night. It was a fun lifestyle. Now, everything is so ordinary and rote.
Now most people will tell you that's a great thing, but I'm here to tell you that I remember the days when I would start a program compiling and go off to have dinner while it worked. Those were the days.
There is nothing quite like knowing your computer friend is hard as work on something while you go take a nap or grab a bite to eat.
That's always been one of the appeals of doing scientific work on the computer -- I once ran a program on my pc that took 2 months to run and it was an unadulterated pleasure.
Progress bars are just the icing on the cake-mouser (January 11, 2011, 10:55 AM)
Hmmm...that's a dangerous offer to throw my way, you realize that?thank you for saying that
any little special feature requests that would make for a better twinkle?-mouser (January 11, 2011, 10:31 AM)
Haha...i remember learning SI units in high school. I got all passionate about it, and wondered why the hell everyone doesn't just use the SI units? They play so nicely together! No...we have to go and convert this and that.So, instead of saying I'm 6' tall, I'd say I'm 1829 mm tall. So I'm going to do that now...it's such an asshole thing to do. Because now it's up to the other person to figure out what that exactly means. Nobody knows what 1829 mm looks like,...except for the assholes living in the rest of the world, who have no concept whatsoever of the ass-backwards weird non-standardized thing means, but have a good grokking of SI units-superboyac (January 10, 2011, 05:51 PM)-f0dder (January 10, 2011, 05:55 PM)