TSGL: Sandbox apps

[Ron Brunton]

Sound advice, Geoff. 
Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Geoff Glave
Sent: November 3, 2006 12:49 PM
To: list at tsgserver.com
Subject: Re: TSGL: Sandbox apps

>What's been your experience?

It seems like every day there's another spyware / AV solution.

Personally, instead of 3 AV apps, 3 antispyware scanners, a dozen firewalls,
a sandbox and god knows what else I think a user's best defense is
intelligent surfing -

1) Stop downloading zillions of dancing giggling customized icons, or some
kind of free calendar app or tons of new fonts - NOTHING IS FREE.  Learn
that any 'want to speed up your computer?!?!' prompt WON'T - All it will do
is install junk on your PC.

2) Run Windows update frequently and keep your Windows box patched -
Whatever Microsoft wants to patch go ahead and patch - I've been doing this
for years without a problem.

3) Don't open junk that's been email-forwarded to you, and don't
email-forward on junk.  If you MUST forward some junk, do a search on
snopes.com before you send it onwards.

4) If you're on ADSL / Cable Install a forty-dollar hardware router that
uses NAT so the IP assigned to your PC starts with 192.168.x.x - These IPs
aren't routable over the internet.

...In my opinion this works better than all that bloatware that probably
makes your PC slower than the spyware ever would.

YMMV

Cheers,
Geoff Glave
Vancouver, Canada


>From: Ray <carmelloz at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List <list at tsgserver.com>
>To: TSGL <List at tsgserver.com>
>Subject: TSGL: Sandbox apps
>Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:48:07 -0800 (PST)
>
>I've been using Sandboxie for several months now and really like it.  I 
>feel like it's keeping me very safe  ---  when I run spyware scans 
>absolutely nothing turns up.  Anyone else tried it?  I think I might 
>give Greenborder a run, next, though it's not free (only a 30-day trial).
>
>What's been your experience?
>
>Thanks,
>Ray
>
>
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