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Time to lock down Windows

In the days of Windows XP, the need for an active virus scanner was a no brainer. With Vista, a user can now easily lock down the system by using a limited user account and turning on DEP for all programs. Then all a user has to do is practice safe surfing habits to stop the vast majority of malware from infecting their system. In fact, UAC has been proven to be very effective at preventing rootkit infections.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146256/vistas_despised_uac_nails_rootkits_tests_find.html

There is just no need to have all that horse power from your CPU and memory being wasted with bloated anti-virus and anti-malware tools. I finally quit running AV software and turned off Defender and now this computer runs really fast. If I feel the need to do a virus scan, there are some good online scans that can detect infections as well as the stand alone apps, without the wasting of resources.

I dumped AVG 8 within a few hours after installing it because it gave me over a dozen false positives related to active x and IE7. I have never used IE on this machine so there was no way I had all these active x controls installed. (I downloaded FF before I installed Vista.) I opened IE7 and double checked and sure enough, not a single one of these was installed.

Posted by: soonerproud   Posted on: 07/08/08  (Edited: 07/08/2008 @ 03:59) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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