Cool, thanks guys.

I've run one and it seems to be Ok at the moment. Any more trouble and I'll run another jsut to be sure. 8)
I guess that'll teach my housemate to go looking in places his mother would be ashamed of. :roll: Men eh! :wink:

With any luck though I'd have saved up enough to get my own laptop after Christmas - then nobody can screw my computer up apart from me. :P :oops:

I've been lost today without it though. It's a crippo's lifeline this thing. :?

If it's your computer, set up your windows login/password. If you don't set up any other logins or even a guest login, they can't use the machine.... ;)

It'll be somewhere in the control panel maybe? I'm sure the more techie bods can help you out with it if you're interested. I can't remember how I did mine but I set up the login when I realised the estate agents could possibly be in here using my computer if they wanted to since they have a key...

I'm not paranoid... I'm just... careful...

Ping, your new avatar is... problematic :)

Well it's all under control now and it makes me giggle everytime I see it. Can't be a bad thing :D

Check out my sig as well... :lol: It's inspired by the episode of south park on at the moment... :lol:

Edit: "Die Hippie, Die".... Don't get me wrong... I dress like a hippie, um.. and stuff... but I like metal. Er... YAY! Chef survived!

I dont get spyware. Dont install dodgy software and am careful about sites. Gotta love the ones that say you must install ActiveX components!

Not experienced it since i got Vista installed

So you're not supposed to? :? :oops:

So can someone help me set up ZoneAlarm pro or recommend me a different one. Because it is is far too restrictive. As I said it doesn't let me connect to MSN. Doesn't let me see postimage pictures on the forum or animated emoticons. Usually the first mod to a computer session is to turn it off. But it is worrying when it says 304,000 intrusions blocked, 7,000 of those have been high rated, firewall has blocked 34 attempts.

:?: Kidding right? :lol:

A lot can be trusted, but a lot are spy ware.

I'm with you Stu on this one - I was not aware of this either.. :smt102

Active X can be easily abused so best avoided unless you trust the site.

Zonealarm :thumbsup: (very very few apps ever need to act as servers & make sure your security is high)

Spybot :thumbsup: Ad-Aware :thumbsup: Sysinternals rootkit revealer :thumbsup:

No ones mentioned Windows Defender :thumbsup: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...e/default.mspx

& making sure you run Microsoft Baseline security Analyser (here).

Good advice is to keep you computer up to date with automatic windows critical updates & preferably make sure you disable all unnecessary services (services.msc).

Also make sure you have File & Printer Sharing disabled on your Lan/dial up properties, & when you browse the internet it's best from a user (restricted user) account, not an Administrator account.
Applying a strong group & local policy is best (gpedit.msc).

Run checks with things like Shields up on http://www.grc.com/default.htm

HTH! Any q's please just ask, if I can help I will.