Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Eeyore" data-source="post: 540647" data-attributes="member: 19444">zicoz, I agree, Microsoft Security Essentials is the way to go now. Completely free and from a trusted source.<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/</a>Personally, since my previous post in this thread in 2006, I have removed antivirus from my MP Server. I never use the machine to connect to the internet via a browser, so there is very little risk. I run MP1.0.2.0 on WinXP with the StreamedMP skin, so obviously that skin connects to Weather.com and my local news site for a ticker, but that is very specific data. I did however get a little paranoid about conficker, so I was running the conficker eye-chart every week or so.The other machines on my LAN are my work laptop, which is running McAfee ePO which forces a very strict set of policies every 3 hours and my personal lap which I have upgraded to Windows 7 and am using MSE on it.All of this is connected to the Internet via a Draytek router. My the firewall in that is turned on an I block as much as I can without affecting normal usage of the internet. Using 'ShieldsUP', I get a &quot;full stealth&quot; result which is about as good as it gets.<a href="https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2" target="_blank">https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eeyore, post: 540647, member: 19444"] zicoz, I agree, Microsoft Security Essentials is the way to go now. Completely free and from a trusted source. [url]http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/[/url] Personally, since my previous post in this thread in 2006, I have removed antivirus from my MP Server. I never use the machine to connect to the internet via a browser, so there is very little risk. I run MP1.0.2.0 on WinXP with the StreamedMP skin, so obviously that skin connects to Weather.com and my local news site for a ticker, but that is very specific data. I did however get a little paranoid about conficker, so I was running the conficker eye-chart every week or so. The other machines on my LAN are my work laptop, which is running McAfee ePO which forces a very strict set of policies every 3 hours and my personal lap which I have upgraded to Windows 7 and am using MSE on it. All of this is connected to the Internet via a Draytek router. My the firewall in that is turned on an I block as much as I can without affecting normal usage of the internet. Using 'ShieldsUP', I get a "full stealth" result which is about as good as it gets. [url]https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2[/url] [/QUOTE]

Verification