- firewalls / anti virus
- Posted by John Hood on September 9th, 2003
now that i have broadband, i use zone alarm as a firewall but its driving me
up the wall popping up every 5mins could i get away with just a plain old
anti virus program as i thought hackers had to deposit a infected file on ur
computer first.
thanks in advance.
John
- Posted by jsp21c on September 10th, 2003
Check out PC-Cillin 2003 which is an anti-virus program which has a built in
Firewall. It doesn't pop up like Zone Alarm, it just shows a bell in your
taskbar when it detects an attempted intrusion. It also hogs less memory
than Zone Alarm.
The website is www.antivirus.com and you can run it as a demo for a couple
of weeks.
- Posted by Colin Wilson on September 10th, 2003
I`m not sure what version you`re using, but i`m still on an old 2.x
version - on the popup, is there a tickbox that says "don`t warn me about
this again" ? (all previous versions to the one I use had it)
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- Posted by Colin Wilson on September 10th, 2003
RE: "don`t warn me about this again"
Just because it isn`t warning you doesn`t mean it`s letting them through
- it`ll still stop them and log them quietly, it just won`t go ape every
time it gets one.
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- Posted by PJB on September 10th, 2003
"John Hood" <jhood-uk@smartemail.co.uk> wrote in message
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John, you need both a firewall and virus scanner, even on
dialup, these days. Either configure ZA not to inform you
when an attack is blocked, or find something else instead,
but do NOT go without a firewall or virus scanner, you're
asking for trouble.
P.
- Posted by Les & Claire on September 10th, 2003
Yep, I use Sophos and ZA. Both work away quietly in the background, look for
the tickbox in ZoneAlarm to turn off reports. If you go to "Shields up"
security check with ZA it turns out you have an invisible PC to all intents
and purposes.
Les
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- Posted by Doz on September 10th, 2003
uninstall zonealarm.. and go and get "Kerio personal firewall"
superb... and free too
Doz
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- Posted by Bobby on September 10th, 2003
Use the built-in firewall software that comes with XP. It's fine.
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- Posted by Kraftee on September 10th, 2003
Bobby wrote:
Doesn't control outgoings & would (or should that be could) you trust
a firewall application developed by the same company who left the
exploit which MSBlaster used in their software (amongst others, like
the holes in DirectX, IE6 etc)....
That alone is a good reason not to trust the XP firewall...
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- Posted by Clunk on September 11th, 2003
John Hood wrote:
Just switch off the "pop ups" in the properties
