Preparing for 3 days of camping
When the groove strikes me, I go all out: blaring music from my room, tidying up, etc. It feels good. 
Even better is finding over $25 dollars in spare change. Matt’s bad/good about dropping change into our spare-change cup and I finally counted out the coins (excluding the pennies). So, that will be enough to fill up his gas tank halfway. It’s sad, but gas prices have remained at their high price of $3 and even more in quite a few places. We’ll be meeting up with his dad and then, jointly making our way to the camping site. Matt made a little checklist that has proved invaluable to my preparations. I am definitely taking my camcorder and camera along with me. Jane, please don’t forget to purchase AA NiMH batteries before you leave! I will be offline for at least 3 days so my phone may be the best way to get in touch with me. In other news, I’m presenting my own rolled-up internet security suite:
- ZoneAlarm Professional (est. $40) from Check Point which serves as a very competent firewall and spyware solution.
- Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition (got this from my ex-school) which serves the much needed antivirus scanning in my email even.
- Ad-Aware Professional 2007 (est. $39.95) from Lavasoft. I use this as an on-demand product although there is an option Ad-Watch that can be used as a realtime component.
Those are the basic 3 that I installed to protect my computer. Another layer of protection will be your browser. I have since switched to Mozilla Firefox and I will not be looking back. For my browser, I’ve got Adblock Plus in operation along with their extra filters that remove the most obnoxious of adverts no the web. I used to have the Netcraft Anti-Phishing toolbar, but I have had a low incidence of those sites due to my diligence in looking carefully at the URLs that I’m sent to. The McAfee SiteAdvisor used to be on computer also, but I got rid of it. I lost interest in it once they started running a “premium” version of their tool. That’s just shitty for them to have done that. They bought out the creators of Site Advisor and then, decided to upgrade the tool, but slap a price tag on it (est. $24.99 single user license). That’s just sticking your tongue out at your users. Well, McAfee’s got competition from lots of angles so there! This was as of last year, but I’ve lost interest in them anyway. Firefox comes built with anti-phishing properties so I didn’t need the extra protection. Naturally, I’ll need Internet Explorer because Microsoft has integrated it almost inextricably into their operating system. Furthermore, buyers of new computers will notice that they may come pre-bundled with other security suites. If you don’t trust those programs, don’t be afraid to uninstall them and install programs you trust.
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Commentary, Personal, Technology | Jane Ullah | 
August 31, 2007 7:39 pm
hey pipi was gud talkin to ya this morn but we are all gud at home and was thinkin when u guys will be coming home.i hope u guys have fun and take lots of pics ok! stay blessed and ma rgds to matt, bill,julie and jonathan and paul and jo and john, cheers donald
Actually you didn’t have to spend that much! If ZoneAlarm has Antivirus in that package, running it concurrently with Symantec AV can crash ur machine….. on the money side…. Symantec’s AV and Spybit would do the trick for u…. on the free side… windows firewall…. is surprisingly pretty good…. blocks out the majority of the stuff…. if u have to spend at all… maybe on Spyware Doctor.. (about 30 bucks) but its well worth it…… one of the best antispyware commercial products….
Please try not to spend too much on security software abeg!
Always
-judith
lol. Anything for my darling computer.
Jokes aside, I don’t believe I’ve had issues with both of them running side by side (thankfully!). ZoneAlarm Pro (what I’m running) doesn’t have AV fxnality, but has anti-spyware properties. I think Symantec does have some anti-spyware, but not enough to let it protect my pc totally. I got Ad-Aware on a whim and I don’t have it running in realtime. Just when I feel the pc needs a spyware detox.