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| Thread ID: 29592 | 2003-01-25 18:23:00 | Are we feeling secure yet? | argus (366) | Press F1 |
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| 116523 | 2003-01-26 02:17:00 | I turn everything off at night so I get a new IP every day. Sometimes I reboot during the day as well so I leave the router off until I need it again and that also resets the IP. I wouldn't like to leave it on 24/7 as there is a remote chance the Dark Forces would stumble across it and find a way in. They'd die of boredom inside my box but that's the risk they take ]:) But I'm still not paranoid for all that :D Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 116524 | 2003-01-26 02:54:00 | I am on Paradise/TelstraClearSaturn cable; but I think I'd still play safe and have a firewall/intrusion detector, even on a dialup connection. | argus (366) | ||
| 116525 | 2003-01-26 03:53:00 | I have never caught a virus. I take plenty of vitamin C and have an iMac... :-) | Pollly (1416) | ||
| 116526 | 2003-01-26 03:56:00 | Way to go Pollly | Jim B (153) | ||
| 116527 | 2003-01-26 04:07:00 | I can't say I've had problems with any of the programs I have decided to use long-term (touch wood). I ditched BlackIceDefender because of a swarm of unnecessarily sensitive alerts (particularly over the Windows PlugNPlay "vulnerability" a while ago); I turned off XP's inbuilt firewall because it interfered with some applications, particularly IRC, and ditched a (free) trial copy of Norton Internet Security, because it wouldn't display certain features of some websites, and I couldn't find how to tweak it. I've no doubt there is an answer, and if I'd paid for NIS, I would have probably tried to find one. I still find some problem getting permissions to "stick" in ZoneAlarm (sick of being asked "do wou want Internet Explorer to access the Internet?") - *anyone know how to get those damned green ticks to STAY there?* But I consider I do need a firewall, as I have a permanent connection. And as for "nothing to hide"; only if you never go anywhere near anything that touches on "adult entertainment" or other controversial areas, or, as someone recently said in an IRC discussion, "don't go to the channels where the idiots are" (where are the idiot-free parts of IRC? Or the internet in general?) - I'm not prepared to accept that limitation. As I say, I have no idea where my "real" history in index.dat picked up "younggayboys" or whatever it was (and to judge from the home page, they did mean young). But I was quite relieved to find and delete it, and glad that someone else didn't find it first. Argus |
argus (366) | ||
| 116528 | 2003-01-26 06:11:00 | At the moment I'm just running Kerio2 and NAV2003. Don't have ad-aware installed at the moment but usually use that every now and again after installing some so called "free" software. I use Mail Washer but only because it's a nice convenient interface of deleting email off the server (i have mail client set to leave it there). OS: Windows XP. Email: Mozilla Mail Browser: Mozilla, Phoenix. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 116529 | 2003-01-26 06:16:00 | Oh and I'm on dial-up. I don't really need to run most of the stuff I do because I avoid viruses anyway and try not to try and get hacked. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 116530 | 2003-01-26 13:53:00 | Run 98se on dial up(sat connection) use NAV 2002 and occasionally run spybot - search and destroy used to run zonealarm but found it resource hungry, and the last update caused so many problems I uninstalled it. got sick of adaware and its ref update locking up on me plus prefer the spybot interface. |
MarkB (486) | ||
| 116531 | 2003-01-26 18:31:00 | Along with Mailwasher and two anti virus programs, I run Pegasus Mail , and have set up my wife's new laptop with Pegasus also. MS Outlook for email is sooooooo prone to viruses that I wonder why anyone 'in the know' would waste their time using this Microsoft emailer. NZ PC World is my favourite mag, but it irked me when PCW did an article on emailers (sometime last year) and left out NZ's own brilliant Pegasus. |
Steve_L (763) | ||
| 116532 | 2003-01-28 01:26:00 | I have a Win ME computer on a LAN. The computer I connect to throw my LAN has Zone Alarm & Norton Antivirus and I am on a ADSL connection And I am running: Norton Antivirus 2002 MailWasher, & I use to use to run AVG Anti-Virus 6.0, but I hade problems with my computer so a switch to Norton. |
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