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| 271675 | 2004-09-13 20:28:00 | If you call Zonealarm a nasty site - so be it - the only site I visited Sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 271676 | 2004-09-13 22:22:00 | > Luckily they were removed by AVG and > the rest I got rid off by inactivating _Restore. That answers some questions. Some of the infections were on the PC before you reloaded XP, or they could not have been in the restore folder. You would likely have picked up a few extra trojans etc in the first minute or two when connecting unprotected (there is no reason not to enable the built in XP firewall, it would have stopped them) |
godfather (25) | ||
| 271677 | 2004-09-13 22:39:00 | if ZA was the only site you went then you shouldn't have got istbar unless it was in a program you have installed, what other nn ms programs did you install? otherwise the only way it would be on the pc is if it was already on there and you did an "over the top" reinstall. eg didn't format the disk (which would have removed all the crud and virus's). |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 271678 | 2004-09-14 01:05:00 | Tweak'e Formatted disk and started fresh Only did a XP install - nothing else, coz ZA was the first proggie I wanted going Yeah T - I'm as pussled as you are. S |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 271679 | 2004-09-14 04:11:00 | How about this for a revolutionary concept. Do your reinstallation whilst *NOT* being on the Internet at all. Once installed, Enable your firewall on all connections... or even better, use a LAN with a 3rd party firewall. Or use the internet behind a NAT modem or similar. (ADSL). This means people cant connect directly to your windows machine to exploit any of its built in bugs. With the windows firewall enabled, download your firewall of choice. Install. Note you should download from a trusted source only. Next download should be Firefox. Once that is downloaded and installed, cease using IE for anything other than Windows Update (or any *trusted* site that Moz has issues with). I'd never dream of putting any windows install directly to the internet without a *minimum* of the XP Firewall enabled. Even then, only in emergencies pretty much. The risk of breach is just toooo high. |
BlakJak (791) | ||
| 271680 | 2004-09-14 04:13:00 | by the way. Every installation archive I download gets kept in a folder. For new windows installs I isolate the machine on my LAN behind my firewall, and Antivirus, Firewall and Alternate Browser/Email clients are all installed from my locally kept archives. That way I know the system is vaguely secure before it gets anywhere near the internet. I love my linux firewall :) |
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