15 Tips to Stay Virus Free

[chryssi2001]

I received this email from Panda Software today, for anyone who is interested.

Users who know how to avoid Viruses & Crimeware are a critical layer of network protection. Train your staff with this FREE, easy-to-use, multimedia presentation.

Panda Software has created an attractive multimedia presentation with 15 practical tips to help keep you free from viruses.

The presentation does not contain commercial content and was created to help educate users in the proper user of their computers and help system administrators implement an effective security policy.

We would like to offer you the opportunity to distribute this presentation to your internal users, so that you can better prevent future virus infections.

We hope that this presentation meets your expectations
and helps you to improve the level of your network
security.

Download (http://www.pandasoftware.com/register.asp?CodigoProducto=1&TipoUsuario=2&Tipo=5&TipoLead=1&Ref=15-CONSJ-SCPEN-508&Idioma=2&Country=&DocID=G11&sec=down&Track=20679)

© Panda Software 2006

[PeteF]

Panda Software has created an attractive multimedia presentation with 15 practical tips to help keep you free from viruses.
Download (http://www.pandasoftware.com/register.asp?CodigoProducto=1&TipoUsuario=2&Tipo=5&TipoLead=1&Ref=15-CONSJ-SCPEN-508&Idioma=2&Country=&DocID=G11&sec=down&Track=20679)

© Panda Software 2006

This is just like Panda, they make you fill out a long form just
to see the presentation. I don't like this company.

I installed their anti-virus software on 3 different Win98 computers
one day and it messed up each one in a different way. When
I called their tech support line they told me, "oh we don't test
on those older operating systems". Funny thing is, when you
go to buy the product it says it works on Win98.

Panda was the very first AV product I ever came across back
in the 1980's. They used to have a good product and attitude.
Things have changed. This company makes you fill out a form
to get access to their FREE article so really it's just a way to
harvest yuor personal information. This is an good example of
why you need to steer clear of PANDA.

The people here a KH Forums could probably write
a better article anyway. :)


I'll start it off.

1.) Use Firefox browser instead of IE for most of your web browsing.
Only use IE when the website is one you can trust and requires IE
to render properly.

2.) Do not download and install FREE Toolbars, Search Bars, or Screensavers
unless you first reseach that particular product to see if it contains malware.
If you don't feel it's worth spending 15 to 30 minutes researching, then don't
even think about downloading it.

3.) If you must use IE, or a browser like AOL's browser that utilizes some
of IE's security settings, use Spybot's Immunize feature that will load
a long list of bad websites into the restricted zone. This will protect you
if you happen to land on one of the many know bad websties.

4.) .....


Hey, let's NOT read Panda's article until we've compiled
our own list. After we are done we can check to see how
our list compares to Panda's.

---pete---

[chryssi2001]

Hi Pete
I rarely use Panda, but it's 1st time i got an email from them so i wanted to see what the members here think about it.
I wouldn't also bother to feel that form lol.

[Tortanick]

Nice Idea Pete, I created a seprate thread for this and added my own tips

http://www.kickenhardware.net/forum/showthread.php?t=3752