Aid -Keep your computer Safe-

[JellyWerker]

Well he can learn from this thread, there are lots of tips here.

[DepthBlade]

There should be a stickied thread for these kind of things a big list of free protection programs and p2p and can be constantly updated.

[Moogie]

There is. All over the Internet, my friend. There\'s no need for us to go posting threads about every single thing people should know as common sense already.

[JellyWerker]

Why p2p, how often is it used for legal things? It isn\'t being used for ps distribution, well they use bittorrent, but that is a different form of p2p, and it isn\'t used for hosting the website, so what would be the point?

[Harkin]

cant delete IE if it wasnt there to begin with... i think the world should all go linux... be a safer place you know

[theRealGorbulas]

Safe P2P program lists is actually a great way to prevent spyware. Some of them come bloated full of spyware and backdoors. Only download BitTorrent and BitTornado for BitTorrent. If there is a lite version of some P2P app, only use the lite one.

[JellyWerker]

like ares, which has a lite version

[swift]

What the RealGorbulas said about Bittorrent is certainly not strictly true - most clients are spyware free, not just the feature-limited BitTornado and the offical client.  Another free/spyware free program is Azureus.  If you don\'t agree, read the source of it.  

Other non -lite p2p apps that are safe include Emule, as well as many Kad clients and DC++ clients.  There is no reason to break the law and use a hacked lite version when the open source community offers you the same thing, minus the jail time.

[Efflixi Aduro]

Could anyone tell me how to rmove IE? Or completely disable it? I use that Gmail notifyer that was posted here a while back and that still opens up with IE......

[theRealGorbulas]

Get ZoneAlarm or something and don\'t allow iexplore or explorer to access the internet. This might cause some problems though... Maybe just set all the security options in IE to their highest and then avoid using it.

[Efflixi Aduro]

Perfect. Thanks for your help. all you can do with IE on my comp now is double click my little Gmail notifyer on the bottem right and veiw my mail.
When I find out how to set Firefox for the default Ill just completely disable everything in IE.

EDIT change Firefor to the gmail default
If IE was a back door, mine would be made of titanium and have 349348 locks on it. And no hinges

[JellyWerker]

actually, there is a free program called ieradicator, but I wouldn\'t use it, because you have to have ie for windows update.

[mikewsnc]

safe p2p
the best one i know of is shareaza spelled something like that.
it contains no spyware but a little slow

[Efflixi Aduro]

Bearshare beats eveything for sure. It come with Sav! and Weahercast which ar spyware but you can easyly reomve them. I usually get about 100-300 kbs from bearshear too. None of the thing are fake eighther. I remember back in the Kazaa days you could download somthing only for it to turn out being a music file that doesnt work etc.

[verideon]

This is nooo bull but I\'m am not joking someone has really hacked my computer. I found it yesterday And it has tonnes of things that have been deleted and stuff. Soo with one of you ases hacked my computer . And just to tell you I am not bulling.