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 Nov 10 2009, 04:20 AM
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I am urgently looking for a software that will help me detect bad/spyware/virus filled websites before i enter the website and that will block said websites. It would be good if the software is free and is not too heavy on my computer. Any advice given will be much appreciated. Thank you, Aaron M -------------------- Aaron M is here.
"I am always ready to learn, although i do not always like being taught" - Winston Churchill Who ever said that paper beats rock is a moron.Next time i see some one i am going to throw a rock at them while they hold up a piece of paper for a shield. - Anonymous Million: 1,000,000 Billion: 1,000,000,000 Trillion: 1,000,000,000,000 Quintillion: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 Sextillion: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Nonillion: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Centillion: 1 followed by 303 zeros |
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Nov 10 2009, 11:01 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 16 Joined: 9-November 09 Member No.: 400,513 |
The way Microsoft Security Essentials has been described is that it would do this, I'm not 100% sure.
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Nov 10 2009, 11:33 AM
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Forum Addict Group: Members Posts: 1,234 Joined: 20-May 07 Member No.: 131,989 |
The problem is that a lot of the infections come from malicious ads on legit websites. There's no real way to avoid that.
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Nov 11 2009, 02:24 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 51 Joined: 14-May 08 From: My house, PJ, Malaysia Member No.: 208,860 |
QUOTE(jerger @ Nov 11 2009, 12:01 AM)  The way Microsoft Security Essentials has been described is that it would do this, I'm not 100% sure. I see. However I am not looking for a whole new anti virus program. Merely one that will do as I have stated above. On another note, after some reading, I have found one such program called Crawler Toolbar. How good is it and is it worth downloading? Thank you, Aaron M -------------------- Aaron M is here.
"I am always ready to learn, although i do not always like being taught" - Winston Churchill Who ever said that paper beats rock is a moron.Next time i see some one i am going to throw a rock at them while they hold up a piece of paper for a shield. - Anonymous Million: 1,000,000 Billion: 1,000,000,000 Trillion: 1,000,000,000,000 Quintillion: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 Sextillion: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Nonillion: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Centillion: 1 followed by 303 zeros |
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Nov 11 2009, 08:15 AM
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QUOTE(Arrow92 @ Nov 11 2009, 02:24 AM) On another note, after some reading, I have found one such program called Crawler Toolbar. How good is it and is it worth downloading? Thank you, Aaron M You may want to read here. IMO. I am not a fan of any site advisor programs. No two agree on good\questionable\bad sites. Many will also show sites as bad because they may contain links to questionable sites or sites with questionable content while the directly linked site is really quit safe. There is no set standard to site advisor programs. They are all based on the program writers opinion. -------------------- Practicing safe hex.
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Nov 11 2009, 09:39 AM
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 New Member Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 22-January 09 From: Phoenix AZ Member No.: 285,980 |
Well, let's take a guess that you're using IE or Firefox. It usually helps if you mention that kinda stuff.
 Both of them already offer Web filtering if you have those enabled in their respective options but either is based on the latest databases which are, fortunately, updated automatically in either browser. Finjan offers their free Secure Browsing for both IE and Firefox: http://securebrowsing.finjan.com/ Dr. Web offers a free add-on for Firefox that will let you right click a link and pre-scan the site for bad stuff: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/938 Cheers! -------------------- "Machines making machines... How perverse!" -C3PO
WinXPproSP3; GData Internet Security 2010; Zemana; Prevx; ZyWALL router; DNS Advantage. |
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Nov 11 2009, 07:39 PM
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BleepIN--BleepOUT Group: Members Posts: 1,231 Joined: 21-October 04 Member No.: 3,911 |
Checkout OPERA browser http://www.opera.com/ as well (no add-ons needed, defaul is SAFE). If in doubt, block everything (specifically javascripts, activeX) except on the sites you totally trust. OPERA does a sitecheck as you click on a link and does block if something nefarious is seen on that site.
In IE you can create Trusted sites list, all others can be blocked/filtered by the restrictive settings for the Internet zone. Also in the firewall you can use blocklists, such as http://www.bluetack.co.uk/forums/index.php or one from OnLineArmor and others. And/Or use PeerGuardian which blocks over a gig of terrible IPs: http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/. This post has been edited by tos226: Nov 11 2009, 07:41 PM |
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