My Norton subscription finally ran out and I got the free AVG for awhile as I'm moving and poor for a few weeks. No Firewall on the free version???!!!!

I've only had it 2 days and have removed Trojan Horses 2x. Is that because I have no firewall? Can I prevent that if I just use the Safe Search and not IE? I've been piggy backing a little on my neighbors wireless, I couldn't get it from them could I ?

thanks,
judi

Windows does have a firewall, maybe it is disabled?

But, a good free internet suite is Comodo Internet Security -
here's a page of their free software -
http://www.comodo.com/home/free/free...key1sk2=Google

oh they have a new browser listed too-
I'm going to try it out.
Comodo IceDragon Browser

[Which should I choose: Comodo Dragon or Comodo IceDragon?
The choice is yours! Both versions of Dragon feature security and privacy improvements over the originals and both feature additional Comodo tools and services. Our goal is to offer a secure, feature-enhanced alternative to both Chromium and Firefox user-bases while retaining the benefits and user experience of the original browsers. If you prefer FireFox, try IceDragon. If Chrome is the browser for you, then why not give Dragon a whirl?]

Wow the Comodo IceDragon Browser is fast , I may decide to use it more than my regular Firefox.
Supposed to be more secure also.

Well I got a heck of a post from my son yesterday. There is a huge trojon horse out there that is effecting 43% of computers in this country. It was even on the national news last night. Firewall does no good. My son wound up sending virus back to the sender, or he hacked the hackers. The Government is getting into the trouble, because it is effecting their computers as well. My son said to tell NT, that when I got this virus, I didn't do anything wrong, or go to or open anything unusual. I have Norton too and it didn't stop this from happening. Right now this viruse thinks it has reached me, it has been misinformed, so it leaves me alone. Over the course of the next few weeks, there are directions out, to get rid of it completely. If this happens to you, a screen will come up and say "silver alert" AVG is also disabled when this happens. You can't actully do anything at all besides a hard shut down. I have the information on the virus from my son, but don't know how to send it on to this site for you all to read. I don't like these dirty tricks people do. Actully thousands are hired to do exactly that. Just be careful. ginnie

I turned Windows firewall back on when I uninstalled Norton.

I was told I was less likely to get stuff using dial up as it is too slow to interest hackers so I think I will run another scan and stay off neighbors wireless and see what happens. Don't know if it will work, I used to get a lot of 'blocked intrusion' alerts from Norton and wondering if thats what it was.

I will try Komodo after I am moved and settled unless I keep having problems every day. My computer is faster since I got rid of Norton but don't know if that is the reason or if I have had the Trojan Horse for awhile and didnt know it.

Thanks for the heads up ginnie, I think I heard of that but assumed I was safe with Norton. I'd like to see the information if you can get it on, I tried to google 'silver alert' and all that came up was info about wandering Alzheimers patients.

Thanks,
judi

If you PM me your private e-mail, I can send you the write up that my son sent me. Be glad to. ginnie

Ginnie,
If you know the name of that Trojan virus go ahead and post it, I can look up info on it.
It would be good to let all the members know about it so they can prepare and head off troubles.


The McAfee site doesn't list any major threat happening -
http://home.mcafee.com/virusinfo/ThreatActivity.aspx

I apparently am too old to learn to speak computer.. This is what I have,

Trojan Horse Heur3 BWSF

I found some things online that implied AVG couldn't remove this but scan result says:

" One potentially dangerous threat. All were removed."

If I click on 'one dangerous threat' it says "Result Secured".

Is secured the same as removed? Is it gone? It comes up every time and doesn't tell me if it is a current threat or one already resolved.

Sorry if these are stupid questions, I've been moving all day and I'm tired. However in all honesty I probably couldn't understand what they were talking about anyway.

Thanks
judi

Yes, I imagin this is the same one my son helped me with. This is what he wrote to me. I don't know PC lingo either, and was definately invaded. If you need help with the interpretation of this, I am told DocJohn is real good on the PC. Yes i did tell chemar and Jo*Mar. Here is what my son wrote "microsoft has confirmed that a bug in the internet Explorer leaves users vuneralble to attackers, and is recommending several temporary fixes. Here's the best one, and one Microsoft declines to suggest. DROP IE and use a different browser altogether.
On Monday, Microsoft issues a security advisory for IE users running all versions from IE6 to IE9, warning of a security but that can allow the takeover of the PC of any user tricked into visiting a website rigged to exploit the flaw. The hack, which was first spotted late last week by security researcher Eric Romang, is already being used to install the poison Ivy Trogan, by some of the same cybercriminal operations that earlier exploited a security flaw in Java, and security firm Rapid 7 estimates that the bug affects 41% of users in North America and 32% world wide.

So this weekend I am getting rid of Internet Explorer, and my son is going to install something else. This happened to me, and I was stuck with a screen that would not get off no matter what I did. I had to do a hard shut down. This was the same one that attempted to do this a month ago, but the information was not released publically until last night on national news.
Wish you all the best. ginnie

the best Internet security I have ever had is the one I use now, free from Microsoft
Microsoft Security Essentials
It only works on PC/Windows
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...ity-essentials