> Ive installed windows defender is this the best one to install?. 

Can I suggest having a look at my website ?

http://www.coreutilities.co.uk

One small note - if you use Kaspersky as a virus killer, it'll flag a 
warning on my "phishing" page as I use an example it considers 
"dangerous" - I try to point out that a html link can display one 
address but take you to another as shown below:

<A_HREF="www.stealmymoney.com">http://paypal.com</a>

In short, anything Microsoft make, almost anyone else makes better - 
the malware authors included (!)

Couple of questions for starters :-}

What OS ?
Have you got malware problems already ?
What AV do you use ?
What firewall ?

...or are you trying to protect your system in advance ?

Feel free to contact me direct - colin@ the domain name above :-)

"Colin Wilson"  wrote 
in message news:MPG.21a80d178d410e8998a413@news.individual.net...
>> Ive installed windows defender is this the best one to install?.
>
> Can I suggest having a look at my website ?
>
> http://www.coreutilities.co.uk
>
> One small note - if you use Kaspersky as a virus killer, it'll flag a
> warning on my "phishing" page as I use an example it considers
> "dangerous" - I try to point out that a html link can display one
> address but take you to another as shown below:
>
> <A_HREF="www.stealmymoney.com">http://paypal.com</a>
>
> In short, anything Microsoft make, almost anyone else makes better -
> the malware authors included (!)
>
> Couple of questions for starters :-}
>
> What OS ?
> Have you got malware problems already ?
> What AV do you use ?
> What firewall ?

### Xp pro.  Just moved to Kapersky Internet Security package from Norton 
Internet Security.  I am hoping Kapersky uses less resources.  Good move?.

> ...or are you trying to protect your system in advance ?

### Yes

> ### Xp pro.  Just moved to Kapersky Internet Security package from Norton 
> Internet Security.  I am hoping Kapersky uses less resources.  Good move?.

Definitely !

> > ...or are you trying to protect your system in advance ?
> ### Yes 

Result :-)

I'd still be tempted to install SpywareBlaster to remove a shedload of 
ActiveX exploits, and use Firefox for as much as you possibly can, but 
otherwise, Kaspersky is an *excellent* choice.

You could always have a looksy at http://www.av-comparatives.org 
(follow the online results link and check out the latest test results) 
to give yourself an idea how effective it is in real life.

Sadly, some of the test results seem strangely skewed, i.e. some AV 
programs score badly at virus detection, but the other results (which 
are often not as important) pull the score back up.

Kaspersky actually scores "lower" than Norton on this site, but I can 
tell you from personal experience it's:

a) far lighter on resources
b) the detection is great
c) the virus signatutes are being constantly updated - not just once a 
week unless-we-get-bad-publicity like Norton !

One small comment I can make about the free version of Kaspersky that 
AOL did last year - I check multiple email accounts (7+) concurrently 
using Mailwasher, and noticed that it sometimes had problems handling 
so many connections to mail / news servers at once - I ended up 
disabling the mail / news scanning as a result.

This in itself isn't a showstopper, as anything infected that did get 
downloaded would be caught by the resident file checker as it writes 
to disk - so by disabling it I simply prevented the same data being 
checked multiple times.