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10-17-2006
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| | PC Security Which is more secure, a computer running Windows XP Professional with SP2 and ZoneAlarm Security Suite, or a computer running Windows Vista, and why? William |
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10-17-2006
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| | Re: PC Security "William" <woogles@charter.net> wrote in message news:1D66CBE9-C965-41C4-BCB2-AA1942E25A6F@microsoft.com... Which is more secure, a computer running Windows XP Professional with SP2 and ZoneAlarm Security Suite, or a computer running Windows Vista, and why? William Haven't heard of too many people running Vista with why ,so you should probably stick to what you know or ask questions in a friendlier tone or wait for the Vista version of Zone Alarm, or keep using your Mac Kevan |
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10-17-2006
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| | Re: PC Security See: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist.../security.mspx "William" <woogles@charter.net> wrote in message news:1D66CBE9-C965-41C4-BCB2-AA1942E25A6F@microsoft.com... Which is more secure, a computer running Windows XP Professional with SP2 and ZoneAlarm Security Suite, or a computer running Windows Vista, and why? William |
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| | Re: PC Security "William" <woogles@charter.net> wrote in message news:1D66CBE9-C965-41C4-BCB2-AA1942E25A6F@microsoft.com... > Which is more secure, a computer running Windows XP Professional with SP2 > and ZoneAlarm Security > Suite, or a computer running Windows Vista, and > why? I'd say Windows Vista. Primarily because even if a rogue application got on the box and was executed (Vista has no built in anti-virus) it would be unable to run with administrative rights without prompting the user for them. It's got an inbound and outbound Firewall built in and turned on by default, anti-malware built in and turned on by default, IE7 runs in a protected mode which prevents malware installing via IE, it's got phishing filters built in, users don't run as administrators by default. The only thing I'd install would be an anti-virus program, Avast or AVG I'd highly recommend (both have free versions). -- Paul Smith, Yeovil, UK. Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User. http://www.windowsresource.net/ *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail* |
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10-17-2006
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| | Re: PC Security ..Yeah i like that fact too, (about the User Protection Mode) it notifys me of all stuff opening, but it can get annoying, they need to make a taskbar icon about it, and when you click on something oh say Device Manager it should remember who opened it and should allow the prior response. Only notifying you in the taskbar that it was allowed. Does anyone know what 64-Bit Anti-Virus software there is? I had CA but it was 32-Bit Downloaded the 64-Bit but it was 32, dont know why, so i said screw CA, and went Trend-Micro but i only have until Dec 31st. Which Sucks. Is One Care Coming Vista and 64-Bit soon? It better.... -- Im pretty Smart with computers but I even need help sometimes. Thats why im here. "Paul Smith" wrote: > "William" <woogles@charter.net> wrote in message > news:1D66CBE9-C965-41C4-BCB2-AA1942E25A6F@microsoft.com... > > > Which is more secure, a computer running Windows XP Professional with SP2 > > and ZoneAlarm Security > Suite, or a computer running Windows Vista, and > > why? > > I'd say Windows Vista. Primarily because even if a rogue application got on > the box and was executed (Vista has no built in anti-virus) it would be > unable to run with administrative rights without prompting the user for > them. > > It's got an inbound and outbound Firewall built in and turned on by default, > anti-malware built in and turned on by default, IE7 runs in a protected mode > which prevents malware installing via IE, it's got phishing filters built > in, users don't run as administrators by default. > > The only thing I'd install would be an anti-virus program, Avast or AVG I'd > highly recommend (both have free versions). > > -- > Paul Smith, > Yeovil, UK. > Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User. > http://www.windowsresource.net/ > > *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail* > > > |
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