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In light of recent hack attacks this is a great opportunity to raise awareness on internet security. Back when we were a forum we had a thread titled “PC Necessities for FREE (or almost)!” that is still valid.

As such, we’re taking the opportunity to share the information from there with you now. Please note it covers more than internet security programs (such as firewalls, anti-virus, and anti-spyware).

Overview

Many people think owning/using a computer means spending a lot of money for it to be useful and safe. But, that isn’t so. These days there are many computer necessities available for users at little or no cost. This article shall mention such necessities, by category, providing links and costs plus analysis for each product.

Anti-Spyware

If you’re online spyware is bound to infiltrate your system. There is a plethora of anti-spyware programs for sale but why pay when good free programs are available?

Our first recommended program is Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware SE. The NSA, here in America, uses an advance version to safeguard their PCs. Ad-Aware SE can be downloaded for FREE. There is an enhanced version costing $26.96 but the free Ad-Aware is more than suitable for most users.

The next recommended program is Spybot Search & Destroy. This completely open-source project is FREE. The author accepts donations via Paypal on the website. However, you don’t need to pay to use the program. In addition, Spybot S&D includes TeaTimer, which is a component that actively monitors your computer for attempted spyware intrusions.

Lastly, Microsoft has a free beta of a new anti-spyware program named Windows AntiSpyware/Defender. Microsoft bought Giant AntiSpyware who previously ran this as a paid utility. Now, owners of genuine/legal copies of Microsoft Windows can download the software to use on their machines. It will easily scan for spyware every day and has other user configurable options. Please note that using this program can cause a file called MSpNGs.exe to run in the background that may use up all your system resources.

We strongly recommend that users actively use at least 2 anti-spyware programs. I personally employ all three of the above and am as spyware free as possible. But, if you don’t have Windows as an OS or if you don’t trust Microsoft then we suggest you use Ad-Aware SE and Spybot Search & Destroy.

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written by ^Raven^

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Today I received an e-mail from Hard Aun, one of the super big bosses at Librarium Online, regarding the hack attack on LO and their plans.

For security reasons he, nor I, will go in depth with any plans.  I don’t know much, nor should I, of their plans but here’s his e-mail.

“We thought you might like to know what’s going on with Librarium-Online.  Yes, it was hacked, and because Blackhat was away, and there was a virus-dropping Pop-up added to the forum, we decided to TEMPORARILY close the site.  We aim to get LO back up on Sunday 24th September (in time for people to post about UK Games Day)

Anyway, we have a little message board at http://www.warvault.net/librarium/   for further updates, although we hope there won’t be any and the next time you see my words will be on Sunday.”

On behalf of all of us here at the CWF Game Game Discussions Podcast & Blog I extend my sympathies and encouragement for a speedy recovery to the LO gang.  I also want to thank Angron for taking the initiative to set up that lifeboard forum.

Just remain patient and I know Black Hat, or someone from LO, will send the word out when it is back on its feet.

written by ^Raven^

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