caffeinator
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Re: is there spyware software worth bucking up for?
IMO, all that is fine, even overkill.
I have on all my windows boxes:
•NOD32 - all setting maxed, including "unsafe applications"
•Winpatrol
•Spybot (no teatimer..winpatrol is far better)
•Spywareblaster with added blocking rules.
•8signs SPI/Rules based firewall (just for local control and logging, and as a 2nd layer..lots easier to add a quicky rule there than in Linux)
•Hardware firewall/router
And perhaps most importantly, no IE.
Me, I like Opera, but FF is fine too.
It'll cut way down on those pesky drive-by malwares.
I also don't use client-side email at all, only text/no .JS webmail on my own servers, or other web-based email.
That cuts out that vector.
If it's not on my computer, it can't infect me eh?
I get 'bored' too sometimes because it seems like nothing ever happens..but isn't that the point?
Oh well, back to using the Internet... 
-CaFF
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tmaertin
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North Tonawanda, NY | thanks CAFF - i am a fellow Opera user myself.
i will give winpatrol a shot and see whats its like! |
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caffeinator
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1 edit | Winpatrol isn't really a registry monitor, not in the free version anyways..but it does watch for changes to startup, services, HOSTS file, etc.
what it does in free version:
»www.winpatrol.com/whyplus.html?version
I don't imagine using it along with Teatimer would hurt, I just found Teatimer to be a pain sometimes.
I forgot to mention..another BIG part of my defences is the use of the MVPS Hosts file and HostsMan to manage it.
Currently blocking over 18,000 tracking/malware/ads/bad places.
Once again, if it doesn't get on my computer in the first place then I don't have to worry about it. 
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tmaertin
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| thanks caffeinator,
i really like winpatrol so far...uses on 2-3mb RAM which is very nice. i installed the MVPS hostsfile and Hostsman and am trying those as well.
Do you bother running hostsman resident and in start up, or do you just access it on demand? sorry if thats a dumb question.
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caffeinator
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2 edits | Not dumb 
I'll bet you surf faster now without the ads and crap.
It's browser-agnostic too because it'a at a lower level.
It's a on-demand app unless you wanted to run the server part..some do to show an image locally instead of blank where the ads, etc used to be, I never saw the need myself.
It just simply will help update, manage, and edit your HOSTS file for you.
It can be kept on, and also auto-update if so told in options, but I just launch it, check for updates, and close it.
Yes, Winpatrol will wonder what's going on with the HOSTS when you do that..its supposed to.
I dont auto-update anything except my AV, I figure it takes 5 mins out of my day to update spybot, spywareblaster, and the HOSTS file when I wake up and while I'm making coffee.
If something goes awry, I'm there.
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tmaertin
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| thanks for the help everyone...so far winpatrol and mvps hosts are working quite nicely together. leaving windows defender is like going from dads station wagon to a sports car!
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