help!

I recently installed spybot S&D and zonealarm but my mum says that they're not needed 'cos we have ad-aware and norton anti-virusrolleyes and uninstalled them. So now I need your help to convince her that they are needed

 

Tell her it's not your fault if the computer goes down because she's not taking adequate precautions.

- H.

 

i already told her 'don't blame me if the computer blows up'

 

ad aware finds ad programs, spybot finds spy ware, norton anti virus cleans viruses and zonealarm is a firewall

4 diff proggies doing 4 diff things tbh

 

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but norton 2004 finds spyware aswell as viruses, it says so on the box, <inocent voice>I swear it</inocent voice>

 

Just stick em back on and change her user settings.

- H.

 

somhow I get the feeling the my mum, or me for that matter, wouldn't be very happy bout that

 

Actually I run both. I find that neither program will find all of the crap floating around in there. Whichever I run first, the second always finds 1 or 2 items left behind - guaranteed.

 

explain why, when i ran adaware then spybot, spybot found 100 programs that adaware didnt?

 

Probably something to do with the way they're put together.
hundred things...


*gets spybot*

- H.

 

Tell your mum to get back in the kitchen and to stop using your PC.

ad-aware and spyboy do seem to find things the other has missed.

 

well that's spybot taken care of. now, do you guy have any ideas about zonealarm

 

It's a firewall. You NEED a firewall.
Going online without a firewall is like removing most of your skin with a sander and jumping into a tank of raw sewage - a nasty and slow way to go.

inference - the internet is a sewer. (apart from Bit, of course.)

- H.