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Trigger · 21 Jan 2006 at 11:33

Hi,

I have a friend who downloads a lot of free music. I went round to have a look at her machine the other week as it had some kind of virus and I ended up formatting the machine. I am going round to to have another look tommorow as it seems it has another virus

Is there any way of protecting the connection against these things? I can't stop her downloading music but there must be something?

She has XPSP2, avast! antivirus, Microsoft AntiSpyware and Spybot S&D. The internet connection is via a D-Link router which also has other machines connected to it. As they have quite a few machines, I think that either a client/server network or some NAS would help as the machines could be formatted every month or so as everything would be stored elsewhere as when I formatted the machine before, she lost over 11GB of music :eek:

I can't think of any other way...

Any ideas?

Thanks

Ben

derbyjake · 21 Jan 2006 at 11:34

get her to run symantec corporate 10 :d

Trigger · 21 Jan 2006 at 11:45

derbyjake said:
get her to run symantec corporate 10 :d

Don't touch Norton Software with a bargepole

To be honest, I'm thinking more on the hardware side of things...

Thanks for the suggestion BTW, much appreciated

Cheers

Ben

derbyjake · 21 Jan 2006 at 11:52

its better then avast lol

and a nas is ok but the virus's could easily infect that,

maybe just get some *** antivirus protection i download a lot and use the corporate on the network no problems detects virus's a treat

tolien · 21 Jan 2006 at 12:04

Hardware won't protect against viruses though, and shifting infected files to another machine's only going to result in it getting infected too...

If the AV isn't picking up viruses, then it's, er, evidently not good.

Edit: What derbyjake didn't point out is that Norton Corporate is considerably better than the version the home peons get - nowhere near as bloaty for one.

derbyjake · 21 Jan 2006 at 12:26

What i was trying to point out but tollien you have a better way with words

basmic · 21 Jan 2006 at 12:38

<insert NOD32 plug here

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tolien · 21 Jan 2006 at 12:40

Yeah, there's loads of "What AV" stuff in the Windows forum.

basmic · 21 Jan 2006 at 12:43

I used to swear by Norton and Sygate.

But I got sick of Norton becoming resource hungry, and changed to NOD32.

I still use Sygate, and swear by it - but I am looking for alternatives, due to it's discontinuation.