Keeping spyware/AV apps up to date

[acooldozen]

Hi all........Perhaps most of you are familiar with this but.......a great site for keeping all your STUFF up to date. Cheers, Lyle

 

http://www.dozleng.com/updates/index.php?act=calendar

[Ben]

I've seen quite a few of those spread across the NET. Not that one in particular though I have to say.

[englishmen]

The best way I found to stay up to date with all my programs is become a member of FileForum which is free you can then search for a app on there site and click "Add to Watch List" you then receive a email whenever there is a update to that specified program.

 

My current tracked program list which is every program I have. Today I received email about a update to Autoruns, Peerguardian & Firefox. Yesterday there was a update to nLite.

 

7-Zip

Ad-aware SE Personal

America's Army

Autoruns

avast! Home

BitComet

CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) :-)

DAEMON Tools

DriverHeaven Driver Cleaner Professional

Dup Detector

DVD Decrypter

Easy CD-DA Extractor

Eraser

ERUNT

Event Log Explorer

Filemon for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003

Folding@home for Windows NT/2000/XP

Foxit PDF Reader

HijackThis

Java 2 Runtime Environment Standard Edition

Media Player Classic for Windows 2000/XP

Microsoft ActiveSync

Mozilla Firefox for Windows

MSN Messenger for Windows

Nero Burning Rom

nLite

NTREGOPT

nVIDIA ForceWare Drivers for Windows 2000/XP

NVTweak (formerly Coolbits)

OpenOffice.org for Windows

PeerGuardian for Windows 2000/XP/2003

Picasa

Power Defragmenter

Process Explorer for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003

QuickTime Alternative

Rainlendar

Real Alternative

Regmon for Windows NT/2000/XP

RegSeeker

RK Launcher

SETI@home

Spybot Search and Destroy

SpywareBlaster

SyncBack

TMPGEnc

Total Uninstall

TUGZip

Ultimate Boot CD Full

XMPEG

[YoKenny]

Hi all........Perhaps most of you are familiar with this but.......a great site for keeping all your STUFF up to date. Cheers, Lyle

 

http://www.dozleng.com/updates/index.php?act=calendar

Calendar of Updates has moved to a new Server and its IP address has not propagated out to the DNS Servers so until it does then this is a good board to see application updates.

 

I use

• WinXP Home SP2 on my 2.4GHZ P4 system

• WinME on my 500MHZ Pentium III system

• Windows Defender on my 2.4GHZ P4 system

• WinPatrol I was so impressed with the Scotty watchdog I purchased the PLUS upgrade

• AVG Free anti virus it has never found anything

• HostsMan and HostsServer to manage hpHOSTS and MVPS HOSTS files

• APC Battery backup for my P4 system as there have been a few 10 second power blips here

• MWSnap for screen captures

 

[lotse]

Apart from my AV and spyware apps, I'm not really that bothered about updating the rest.

 

Before I switch off my PC at the end of the night, I run CCleaner and then go through my security programs one by one checking for updates. It takes about a minute, and is part of my "getting ready for bed" routine.

 

I always disable any auto update features. Call me paranoid, burt I hate applications just connecting at random (or otherwise) to the net without my explicit permission. Apart from anything else I might not want the update. No different than windows updates.