Sygate + HIPS ??? + ???

Discussion in 'other firewalls' started by trdr, Mar 16, 2008.

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  1. Woody777

    Woody777 Registered Member

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    I am about to dump the ProSecurity Hips. It is plainly driveing me nuts with all the pop ups to do anything at all. I suspect that the combination of SuperAntiSpyware & NOD 32 should handle any malware any way. You might consider using Winpatorl at least its a great system monitor & now says it has keylogger protection. It will also wipe out cookies as a well as show you all tyopes of info about your system. Reg mon is very light & almost enough HIPs by itself.
     
  2. trdr

    trdr Registered Member

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    than gawd for Safe Mode
    spent an hour last night trying to get past a fooked install, went to bed
    after another 1/2hr this morning finally remembered Safe Mode and was able
    to uninstall the program
    I rebooted and for some reason FreeRam came up at 280+, hit AutoFreeNow
    and it topped 300, settled just below. online typing this it's stable at 290 and
    using about 50mbs less than it did prior to the above uninstall; can't figure
    that but will do a hd format this weekend. I'm glad things happened as they
    did as I thought it was the PCTools av that was responsible for the extra ram
    being used

    ok: I use a killdisk floppy in order to format the hd, I only run it a few mins to
    mess the files, then do the 4 floppy BootDisk install, then W2K install - -
    http://www.killdisk.com/
    elsewhere someone recommended using ' HDD Low Level Format Tool ' - -
    http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2006.04.12-HDD-Low-Level-Format-Tool/

    ellison, Woody, anyone else have opinions about either of the above programs
    or other sw recommendation or other format methods ?
     
  3. ellison64

    ellison64 Registered Member

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    Whenever ive reinstalled w2000 ive used dbans autonuke
    http://dban.sourceforge.net/
    Its always worked fine for me.I haven't tried the progs you mention so cant comment on them.I really wouldn't mess with freeing up ram in w2000.It just isn't necessary.If you want just a visual ram aid tray icon then try rampage
    http://www.jfitz.com/software/RAMpage/
    And leave the default to auto free when it reaches 4 meg 9which i doubt will happen unless you have a badly coded programe).Ram is meant to be used ,and freeing up ram for the sake of it is counter productive
    ellison
     
  4. trdr

    trdr Registered Member

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    ellison: used the dban and thought it the same as killdisk, again only ran it a
    few minutes to mess the files and left it to the W2K installation to format the
    drive I have the idea tho when I was using W98 I could do a hd format and it only took, seconds ?

    is there a faster method to format the W2K hd than using dban or killdisk ?

    installed Rampage which I think's the same as Freeram and now understand
    the difference between ram and resource, I've stopped 'freeing'
    one thing was having to change the ISP's modem, this one doesn't indicate
    when data is transferring so I keep an eye on the Sygate icon. the ram is
    staying up as high as 300 and comes back up as soon as I'm offline
     
  5. Yoda1953

    Yoda1953 Registered Member

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    OK, my "backup" for Sygate at the moment is:
    advanced rules, dll authentication

    Sandboxie (with restricted rules)
    Threatfire 3.5 free
    Avast 4.8 free
    Peerguardian
    Winpatrol 2008
    Processguard free

    I don't LUA anymore, got too much trouble running things with Surun.
     
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