Disable the XP Firewall and just use Zone Alarm. It is not good practice to use two Firewalls Unless you are using a hardware router & software firewall..
As well as th eprograms listed also use Spywareblaster
Two anti virus programs is likely to cause problems with conflicts between the two. Choose one and remove the other.
The other critical aspect is backups. All the protection software in the world is of no use if your System Restore files and such become corrupted or infected.
A second hard disk is very cheap and can easily be fited. Then use an imaging program to create an image of your original hard disk. This can be used to recover your system if things go wrong.
It is also good practice to have more than one copy of your data as a backup. An imaging program such as Norton Ghost will image and also span a backup across a series of CDR or DVDR (RW) disks.
Thanks for the reply.. When you say a second hard drive,do you mean a removeable plug in one. Or purchase another "internal" hard drive and run it like a serial one?
I have a second STA hard disk in my 4700 partitioned into 2 drives for Ghost backups and Ghost images. This is only used to back up the 4700 two separate and different ways.
I also have an external USB hard drive connected to the 4700. I use this to back up the 4700, the other two Dells machines on my network, 4100 & XPS r450 and the Compaq laptop my wife has. The 4100 & XPSr450 also both have second hard disks for direct backups.
As a Dell techie put in his signature some years ago.
He who laughs last and loudest, probably made a backup
Hi thanks for the advice. I shall look for a second internal hard drive and look towards a removeable one too, as quite rightly backing up is a important failsafe against corruption of data.
ceri sheeran
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July 10th, 2005 16:00
HI,
Disable the XP Firewall and just use Zone Alarm. It is not good practice to use two Firewalls Unless you are using a hardware router & software firewall..
As well as th eprograms listed also use Spywareblaster
Two anti virus programs is likely to cause problems with conflicts between the two. Choose one and remove the other.
jayan73
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July 10th, 2005 22:00
Thanks for the reply.. When you say a second hard drive,do you mean a removeable plug in one. Or purchase another "internal" hard drive and run it like a serial one?
My system is a: -
Dimension 8400
Thanks
Julian
ceri sheeran
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July 11th, 2005 05:00
HI,
I have a second STA hard disk in my 4700 partitioned into 2 drives for Ghost backups and Ghost images. This is only used to back up the 4700 two separate and different ways.
I also have an external USB hard drive connected to the 4700. I use this to back up the 4700, the other two Dells machines on my network, 4100 & XPS r450 and the Compaq laptop my wife has. The 4100 & XPSr450 also both have second hard disks for direct backups.
As a Dell techie put in his signature some years ago.
He who laughs last and loudest, probably made a backup
Ceri
jayan73
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July 11th, 2005 08:00
Hi thanks for the advice. I shall look for a second internal hard drive and look towards a removeable one too, as quite rightly backing up is a important failsafe against corruption of data.
Thanks for the tip!
Julian