Hi, I found this free security monitor and it has some great features:
http://premiumservices.aol.com/asm_...

and NO, I'm not an AOL member...LOL, but this thing is real usefull and will let you know when your spyware progs and other things are not functioning correctly.

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http://www.sandboxie.com/

"Sandboxie changes the rules such that write operations do not make it back to your hard disk"

hmmmm....a strange program sandboxie, I really don't know! I like a little more user-friendly pattern myself

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Why do I get this creepy feeling when I see 'A new service courtesy of AOL'? Something to do with 'is there anything else installing behind' or 'will it uninstall, if necessary'. Agree it looks nice though.

"I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us..."

I'm the same way about ANYTHING from AOL, but I've tried this and it seems to work quite well, it even alerted me when there were new updates for the Spyware progs...not too shabby

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Pity it doesn't recognise Kaspersky, just says my AV isn't active (which it is), also says I have multiple AVs running (which I haven't). apart from that gave 100% on all other categories. A guarded thumbs-up but I think I'll uninstall it.

"I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us..."

now that is strange as it recognizes Avast at 100%.

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Spooky being AOL , but none the less seems ok??
It recognizes AVG also,

" Please Post back to let us know if we helped "

Here are some others Opinions on it
Active_Security_Monitor.

" Please Post back to let us know if we helped "

Don't forget Bob....it's FREE now.

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Yes you have a GOOD point there LOL,,,,

" Please Post back to let us know if we helped "

Also, probably alot of the users that posted opinions were AOL users...AOL has the most infested software you can find....it's riddled with ads and other stuff.
On a PC without AOL installed, I'm sure it will work well IMHO

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For me it was a fair enough program considering it came from AOL. I would have given it much better rating but for things below. BTW, it didn't have a problem picking up KAV on this system and my PC score summary was 100.

0. I couldn't maximise or enlarge the program window at all, so the summary details & alerts were terribly illegible and painful to read, even after bringing my desktop settings all the way down to 800 x 600 (the lowest on my monitor).

1. It found a problem with my browser and recommended I upgrade to IE6 SP1, even though I have IE7 RC1 installed.

2. It also recommended I install AOL backup even though I also have DI7 installed.

3. Faster scanning time.

I have since uninstalled it, if they can fix those things, most especially the program window sizing, I wouldn't mind bringing it back as a regular on this machine ;-(

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Good points Sabertooth. I guess there are flaws in just about any program. The monitor did notice today that the spyware progs had updates, that kind of amazed me, but it has my score at 93 because I don't have ammy my critical up-dates. I've refused to D/L 2 of the cumulatve patches as they cause problems in my IE. Other than that, my PC is running fine.

I noticed jayboy is up to his usual self trying his best to annoy anyone he can on computing.net. Some things never change.

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