New Laptop- any help?

Hi Redwing,

I would recommend AVAST Antivirus instead Norton, it’s free for personal use and works well. You can get it from http://www.avast.com/

You may want to install Excel for all your little spreadsheets.

just my 2 cents

Hey Redwing,

– You made agood choice – Toshiba is rated as the best brand – but then again its all in the brand name.

– When u purchased the laptop, the seller should include Norton AntiVirus 2004 for you for free. I think its a good one to use as it has automatic updates.

– I recommend using MS Office 2000 instead of 2003 as the latest version has errors and bugs that haven’t been fixed yet.

– Do you know if it has built in wireless, has an S-Output for external devices as TV or infrared?

– I don’t want to tell you of any programs to download cause you’ll end up filling your Hard Drive with alot of junk you wont use. howver, if u come up with something, simply go to http://www.download.com – its all Free there.

Hey, if u dont mind, Id like to know the deal u got on it as I want to upgrade my laptop – u can PM me.

anyway, hope that helps

kind regards,
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Hi Redwing,

if your gonna download kazaa, get the kazaa lite version, reasoning behind this is, gets rid of the spyware, and ad pop up, but make sure you virus scan everything you download from kazaa…

Cheers,
sis

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Congratulation on getting a LapTop,

I suggest you send it over to me to get it sorted out for a couple of weeks [blink], I mean months .

What I normaly do is download http://www.grisoft.com FREE antivirus software and set it to run auto every day. But since you got Norton that’s probably alright ( lot of people using that).

I download Yahoo Instant Messenger and instal it, it has many features that you can use and are handy. For instance it gives stock market alerts(rings a bell if your shares go up or down). Have it send your weather erport every day to your email box, chat, radio stations (make your own private one!). It also; once you actauly sign up for messenger, which it totally free [but there is pay services you can use] gives you a yahoo ID so that you can use yahoo email, so then you just use yahoo web based email instead of outlook and can check your email anywhere, net cafe’s, someone elses home etc! And Yahoo Messenger is programed magnificantly.

I instal a auto passord remembering software free at http://www.gator.com/home2.html , this loggs you into sites, if you have lot’s that you log into and over a few years you tend to forget what passords you used. This remembers them.

You can go into your browser on your other PC and import your old bookmarks and put the file on a floppy disk and then take it over to your Laptop and import the file into your favorites, then misteriously your favourites will all be in your LapTop.

And don’t forget to download the LapPack Calculator http://www.Jaffasoft.com/property/LapPack.zip

Good luck with it…

Hi Redwing, i bought the academic version of MS Office, my friend is a teacher and all she did was show her teachers credentials and it cost around $250.00 compared to $1000.00. I have the 2002 version and it works like a treat

redwing, if you got the Spybot that I know of it tends to be quite out of date. You get very infrequent updates with this. Try downloading Ad-aware instead. It seems to be more up to date. The link has already been posted in this topic.

Ali G

Hi Redwing
I’d have to agree with Myydral. My broadband with IE & XP Home Edition is online all the time, so I’m a constant target, so I know what keeps the nasties out, and doesn’t conflict with other programs.(Thought I did anyway).Malware intrusion is getting worse by the day. For product tests, good one to see is PCWorld Mag August 04 edition.
I’ve had a combo of Norton Antivirus 2003, ZoneAlarm Pro, and Spybot running without a single problem for 9 months, but, yesterday, I ran 2 new anti spyware programs and they picked up plenty of malware, backdoor doorstops holding open ports for god know who, keyloggers getting info on my passwords and bank accounts . . . . here’s me sitting here all smug thinking all’s well because these programs are showing nil on daily scans. The new ones are
Webroot Spysweeper
Adware Away.
Both have trials but I bought them immediately after the first sweeps uncovered so much “scumware”. Now I run the lot every morning and do the daily updates of the definitions and programs.
Hope it all works for you.
cheers
thecrest

Hi Redwing,

just noted you said you have BlackIce, IMHO get rid of that program, thats a hackers program to break into other programs, ive seen mates use it, (the worm or virus, that BlackIce, cant detect is Subzero) (if i recall right), best to stick with the suggested programs above, will post link about BlackIce when found…

Cheers,
sis

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Hi Redwing,

honestly get rid of blackice, it was good for some time, but theres a virus or worm called Subzero, it allows remote computers to attack your computer, steal your ip, and then access other computers for them, its almost impossible to get rid of subzero worm/virus once you got it, but blackice was initally created by hackers, i know this, but i cant find the weblinks…

just posting to a friend now in astalavista.com (hacker forums) about blackice and subzero, will post links when found, but stick with the zone alarm, definetly much secure for variety of reasons.

Cheers,
sis

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