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Originally Posted by SteveA Sorry, eeyore, I disagree with you there - I've lost count of the number of machines I've worked on that have had the A/V, firewall, security disabled by malware/trojan applications such as the type at the heart of this thread. |
Yeah you're right steve - I didnt read the original post properly and had assumed that Tomarg had the system doctor software installed intentionally. On re reading I can see that it is an outside attack.
In this case I'd definitely say reinstall the antivirus and firewall, and a decent spyware sweeper/blocker - the MS one is remarkably good and the beta version is still available free.
On your IE vs firefox vs opera debate - I have Firefox installed at home, and agree that it is an excellent peice of code. However I am running IE on this computer (as I have no choice as it is a work rig) and its security is fine on account of our robust virus/firewall/spyware blocker set up.
Ive used opera a couple of times on rigs I've built and I've never been that impressed, its okay but why use it when the firefox is better, and for the average user IE is going to be fine so long as they take other security precautions too.