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<MerryMav@gmail.com> wrote in message
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| Hi, Guys!
|
| Hoping someone can explain a few things to me in re Spybot:
|
| 1) I've got it set to auto-scan on "Start-Up" but it takes 45 minutes
| to scan before I can even begin to use my system---is this normal?!
|
| 2) Lately, out of 73083 processes (?) to be scanned, my system freezes
| up at 42522 on account of something called "AdMoke" so I never get to
| that point, at the end, where I can click the "Fix problems"
| feature---
| I have to turn off the tower via the back button---so, I take it
| problems aren't getting fixed...? Spybot has also frozen on:
|
| a) MyWay.MyWebSearch
| b) Microsoft.Windows.SecurityFirewallOpenPorts
| c) Hotbar
| d) Vario.AntiVirus
|
| 3) Exactly, how much do I really need Spybot? Somebody else installed
| it, someone who was visiting all kinds of dubious sites as well as
| downloading alot from Bittorrents sites 24/7---this person no longer
| has access to my system but he insisted Spybot was essential,
| especially, if my tower was directly connected to my ISP (my cable
| modem box through Time Warner Cable). He claimed there was no
| Firewall, therefore, Spybot was needed in this instance more than ever
|
| Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated---I've got McAfee running for
| viruses and there is a Firewall icon on my Control Panel (a feature of
| Windows XP?) but am not sure if it is enabled.
|
| Doesn't Time Warner cable have some kind of a built-in Firewall?
| Should I have one and which do you recommend?
|
| Thanks a million!
|
| ---MM
|