Security - September 2006

I am thinking of switching my compuer to Linux...what is a good variant/release that you can recommend for stability and security?
I had an old release of Mandrake years ago...not bad but crashed a lot, full of security holes, bugs.

As well, I have WinXP pro installed..it it a pain to make a dual boot *absoultely without partitioning (don't want to do this)*, or should I just get another machine?

My main uses: total security (total lock down with firewalls and encryption, paranoid tracking utilities) programming, word processing tools, and surfing.

THANKS SO MUCH

2006-09-09 07:12:36 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

yahoo assined a password and it will not allow me to change it. when i try "(about 30 times on at least 4 different computers)it says YOU HAVE SUCESSIFULY CHANGED YOUR PASSWORD" then it will only allow acess with original password!!! this has been going on for 2+ years PLEASE HELP???

2006-09-09 07:11:45 · 0 answers · asked by george m 1

My Mcaffee Antivirus has just expired. I never had a firewall and everthing has been just fine with no problems for the past year.

I went to best buy and they had on sale Mcaffee's viruscan and firewall as a package deal for 29.99.

The guy there wanted to sell me however PCScillen for 40 bucks and it was only the viruscan.

The reason why he said that the PCScillen was better was because he said it had less system requirements which inturn would make the computer run faster. Is he right?

Also he said that windows has a built in firewall. What do y'all computer dudes and dude ettes think HMMN?

2006-09-09 07:10:28 · 11 answers · asked by Beano4aReason 4

2006-09-09 06:45:30 · 3 answers · asked by sassywhen 1

I have been having a few problems with the Yahoo browser since switching over to Norton Security this week. ie: the browser closing when in the middle of something. Has anyone else had problems? and do you know how to correct it? My IP only tells me what I need with my computer to run Norton but not what to do about their messing up

2006-09-09 06:36:44 · 3 answers · asked by Earth Goddeess 1

I have a virus in many of the restore files...c:\_RESTORE\TEMP\A0567110.0, they are Trojan-gen, adware-gen, and downloader-gen. I have used AVG and Avast and neither of them will let me delete it or put it in the virus chest, how do i get rid of them?

2006-09-09 06:22:07 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-09 05:56:16 · 6 answers · asked by sandys0 1

Im studying computer security, now im studying how virus works, i wanted to know if I execute a virus on a virtual PC, will it affects my computer as well meaning

2006-09-09 05:18:15 · 3 answers · asked by joker 2

Update is being so slow!

2006-09-09 04:55:15 · 10 answers · asked by The Mole 4

i have a windows xp version 2005
diemension e310

2006-09-09 04:42:47 · 5 answers · asked by ..... 1

2006-09-09 04:40:24 · 6 answers · asked by cezmo1 1

2006-09-09 03:46:09 · 9 answers · asked by Christina 1

2006-09-09 03:27:26 · 7 answers · asked by Skip 1

2006-09-09 03:24:55 · 4 answers · asked by Lisa L 1

can i get secure password examples for bank accounts and for personal

2006-09-09 03:16:57 · 6 answers · asked by Ramakrishna U 1

In the network connections I don't see the option

2006-09-09 03:05:50 · 2 answers · asked by dk 2

When I right-click the task bar and try to go into properties it says I'm restricted. How can I change that? I know that you go into the hard drive and do something, but I can't remember!

2006-09-09 02:07:45 · 2 answers · asked by thisxlifexisntxrealx2006 2

hec does that mean? Does it mean I can't get it off?

2006-09-09 01:49:38 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Just wondering, because it is located in my Administraator program files but not in my user files.
If anybody knows if it should not be on my computer, please let me know. Thanks.

2006-09-09 01:30:15 · 10 answers · asked by anton19542001 2

I want to change the filtering of the safesearch, but it just won't change, maybe my husband disabled me from doing so (or is there a way I can do it myself?), I do not know.

2006-09-09 01:28:17 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

we helped a friend with a girl and he is causing my wife and i a lot of problems we want it so he can not send im's to her computor or know when we are on line,,any help here??

2006-09-09 01:18:05 · 4 answers · asked by terry p 2

"Dear user spookey_ruben71,

It has come to our attention that your Yahoo User Profile ( x ) records are out of date. For further details see the attached document.

Thank you for using Yahoo!
The Yahoo Support Team






+++ Attachment: No Virus (Clean)
+++ Yahoo Antivirus - www.yahoo.com"


This looks like **** to me! Is this SPAM!?

2006-09-09 00:54:22 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

when i went to open that email account i had 7 emails for abuse. also, i opened a new yahoo account and am receiving abuse emails there also. is someone pretending to be me and using my ip address? how can i get this straightened out?

2006-09-09 00:37:38 · 4 answers · asked by lisa a 2

2006-09-08 23:09:33 · 7 answers · asked by joe 4

my computer is used with the internet.Any way do you know the best program to scan All Vurises and get it free?

2006-09-08 19:26:08 · 17 answers · asked by Kalip A 2

like web pages, searches, passwords, downloaded softwear...

2006-09-08 18:15:30 · 6 answers · asked by marius 1

2006-09-08 17:56:26 · 17 answers · asked by purushottam 1

Im off to the shops on Sunday to buy an anti virus package ( i currently have Norton but the free trial runs out soon ). Can anybody recommend the best package. Thanks in advance.

2006-09-08 17:29:22 · 27 answers · asked by emergency_hammer 2

Ok so the computers at my school have something that filters out certain websites and appearently someone in my school was able to "hack" this barrier..or at leat thats what i think my computer teacher was trying to say. He said that someone made some "protsys" (i can't spell this word) to by pass this security.

I guess my question is what in the world is a "protsy" bc my teacher refused to explain what it was or what it does (the paragraph above is only my hypothesys). Im not asking anyone to teach me how to hack my school's sytem, i just want to know what this "protsy" thing is and how it works.

Thx i really appreciate all of ur help!!!

2006-09-08 16:57:12 · 6 answers · asked by Sir Excalibur 2

My little brothers go on this comp please help me

2006-09-08 16:38:12 · 8 answers · asked by a_montana_chick 2