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poison
August 20th, 2007, 12:34 AM
First of all I would just like to say hi to all you great forumers! you are a wealth of information! I've been Lurking some time... :p

Now for my question:

I am running on WinXP SP2 and have 3 security apps that offer realtime spyware protection which are:

NOD32 (Blackspear's Extra Settings)
Outpost Firewall Pro with real time enabled
and
SuperAntiSpyware with real-time anabled

Do you think this could cause a conflict and damage my system?

Would I be better of disabling real time on outpost and SAS and just trusting NOD32 or would you also use SAS for real-time or all 3 as I am?

I use Internet Explorer and do download quite a lot of Bit Torrent.

Any advice would be welcome :)

Thanks

disinter1
August 20th, 2007, 03:10 AM
You could disable the antispyware protection in outpost, and after that your perfect, unless you want hips to the lot.

Tarq57
August 20th, 2007, 07:40 AM
I'd also recommend a bit of immunizing for IE. Set the permissions pretty high (Eg: prompt for all scripting) in the untrusted/internet zone), and get, install and update Javacool's SpywareBlaster. This uses no resources, is free (and trouble free) updates available (based on a blacklist of dodgy sites) every week or two. Just enable all protection after updating, and exit the program.
Consider using Firefox with the Noscript and maybe Adblock add-ons, if you want to notch it up another level, but you look pretty good.
Have a look at the other thread Here (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?p=1060904#post1060904)
where a recommendation has been posted at #8 to lock the shared folder down for file sharing...I don't use those applications so it's a bit past my head, but looks very worth delving into.

poison
August 20th, 2007, 06:14 PM
Thanks a lot for the replies guys! All your recommendations have been taken on board and I am now running everything you suggest apart from the HIPS as I don't really understand how this works :o

Thanks again!