i am going to power up my homebuilt rig today and i want to find out the following---
is it wise to keep the machine offline until i have installed the following from a cd:
1)symantec antivirus
2)spybot
3)lavasoft ad-aware
4)win xp service pack 2
i don't even know if i can get xp sp2 as a downloadable .exe file, since windows does the update online. i just remember in years past that when i would reformat a computer from scratch and connect online, within about 2min, before i had time to install any virus etc protection, i would be getting spoof popups telling me that i had a virus and that my registry was corrupted, and ostensibly directing me to a microsoft website (which wasn't legit).
i am adament about not wanting any crap to get on my rig, and there wonder what you guys think are essential programs/updates to put on the computer before going online.
thanks.
is it wise to keep the machine offline until i have installed the following from a cd:
1)symantec antivirus
2)spybot
3)lavasoft ad-aware
4)win xp service pack 2
i don't even know if i can get xp sp2 as a downloadable .exe file, since windows does the update online. i just remember in years past that when i would reformat a computer from scratch and connect online, within about 2min, before i had time to install any virus etc protection, i would be getting spoof popups telling me that i had a virus and that my registry was corrupted, and ostensibly directing me to a microsoft website (which wasn't legit).
i am adament about not wanting any crap to get on my rig, and there wonder what you guys think are essential programs/updates to put on the computer before going online.
thanks.