Comments on: Windows trojan holds your files for ransom http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/05/30/windows-trojan-holds-your-files-for-ransom/ Protect yourself from government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: kyte http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/05/30/windows-trojan-holds-your-files-for-ransom/#comment-1017 kyte Tue, 31 May 2005 07:39:35 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/?p=130#comment-1017 addit: for email you cannot go past beckymail (http://www.rimarts.co.jp) : AFIAC it beats the hell out of most other offerings. addit: for email you cannot go past beckymail (http://www.rimarts.co.jp) : AFIAC it beats the hell out of most other offerings.

]]> By: kyte http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/05/30/windows-trojan-holds-your-files-for-ransom/#comment-1016 kyte Tue, 31 May 2005 07:37:53 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/?p=130#comment-1016 Glad to see someone else banging on about these issues. I personally would NEVER recommend anything Symantec, for two reasons: a) it doesnt play nice with all other software... mysterious conflicts and failures can often be fixed by uninstalling Symantec software and b) the word "bloatware" always springs to mind. I remember what they did with WRQ's @Guard which was 1.3mb before the purchase and 15mb within a couple of months after, with no significant changes except to the interface which had become, for those of us who wanted to control our firewalls, totally unuseable. My recommendations for stitching up against the psychopaths almost always involve: Spybot Search and Destroy, Javacool Software's Spywareguard and Spywareblaster, Diamondcs's TDS3 and Wormguard, and a firewall of your choosing. I used to like Kerio PF after @guard went down the tubes, but its changed a lot and I am no longer a Windows user. For Antivirus: AVG7 is just fine, in spite of commercial claims to the contrary. I havent included links, too many: Google will see you right :) Glad to see someone else banging on about these issues.

I personally would NEVER recommend anything Symantec, for two reasons: a) it doesnt play nice with all other software… mysterious conflicts and failures can often be fixed by uninstalling Symantec software and b) the word “bloatware” always springs to mind. I remember what they did with WRQ’s @Guard which was 1.3mb before the purchase and 15mb within a couple of months after, with no significant changes except to the interface which had become, for those of us who wanted to control our firewalls, totally unuseable.

My recommendations for stitching up against the psychopaths almost always involve: Spybot Search and Destroy, Javacool Software’s Spywareguard and Spywareblaster, Diamondcs’s TDS3 and Wormguard, and a firewall of your choosing. I used to like Kerio PF after @guard went down the tubes, but its changed a lot and I am no longer a Windows user. For Antivirus: AVG7 is just fine, in spite of commercial claims to the contrary.

I havent included links, too many: Google will see you right :)

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