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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I've got a total of 5 comps currently connected to the Internet since I still live home, one is my own and the rest of them belongs to my bros, sis and mom. My setup: -[b]OS:[/b] WinXP Pro SP2 -[b]Antivirus:[/b] Norton 2005, think I'll upgrade soon cuz this one has been outdated for about a month. -[b]Win Firewall:[/b] OFF, it only bugs me... -[b]Firewall:[/b] Norton too, but turned OFF, annoying little thing... -[b]Users:[/b] Single Admin account, passworded to avoid accidents because my cat walks on the keyboard when I'm afk... -[b]Router:[/b] D-Link, Blocks any unwanted connections, pongs back but not much else unless I tell it to. -[b]WLAN:[/b] Unencrypted, closest neighbour with a comp lives 1km from here... -[b]System Restore[/b]: OFF -[b]Browser:[/b] IE6, Opera, Netscape, and Firefox. Only use IE for surfing, and everything else. :P The rest are for debugging scripts... -[b]ActiveX:[/b] Enabled, but prompts for fishy things... -[b]JS & cookies:[/b] Enabled, except that it keeps prompting me whenever I run a local file... anyone who knows why there's no option to disable it completely in IE? -[b]Spyware/Adware tools:[/b] RegCleaner would come closest to this. Good for cleaning up after messy uninstallers. Spyware/Adware/Malware count: 0. Virus/Worm count: 2, I keep the source of Loveletter and another one for fun :D They didn't infect me, I grabbed them. The other computers have been "infected" once or twice by adware. I keep telling the others to stop downloading crap, but do they listen? Oh, we did have a worm that bounced back and forth between two comps running Win 98 and ME a couple of years ago, but that was easily taken care of with the registry editor. :D /TwoD [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/5008]TwoD[/url] on 03-25-2006 05:00)[/small] Loading...
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