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| Thread ID: 62671 | 2005-10-15 06:32:00 | Firewall Advice | Annanz (3044) | Press F1 |
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| 396522 | 2005-10-20 18:51:00 | Well we #1'ers have been battle hardened and seen the damage these things do to friends and family PCs as well as viruses/worms flooding the workplace. Telling people their work is corrupted and cannot be recovered is hard. Therefore we will do all we can stop it happening to others. As I very much work in this field, the vast majority of users effected in the way you are describing are either running out of date AV, few upodates and or no firewall at all. Also no spyware detector does not help. The End users that run good AV, updates and the SP2 firewall are not having problems (also no hassle). I know the people in this thread that say that is not enough for basic end users, are either out of date with there knowledge or have no experience with this level of user or protection. The hassle vs Benefit always need to be taken into account, otherwise you are a #1 and there is not hope for you. |
Battleneter (60) | ||
| 396523 | 2005-10-20 19:11:00 | The internet is a very harse place these days, and every available protection should be used. However, I agree with you that any solution we install should be easy to use. | KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
| 396524 | 2005-10-29 03:40:00 | Got over my inertia and procrastination today and decided that too risky to continue shutting down ZoneAlarm just so that I could get on the net . I have downloaded and now have running Kerio (and have uninstalled ZoneAlarm) . So far everything looks fine and can get on the net no problem - what a relief !!! :rolleyes: I will have a look at Sygate and other suggestions when have a bit more time . cheers Misty :) |
Misty (368) | ||
| 396525 | 2005-10-29 03:47:00 | Got over my inertia and procrastination today and decided that too risky to continue shutting down ZoneAlarm just so that I could get on the net . I have downloaded and now have running Kerio (and have uninstalled ZoneAlarm) . So far everything looks fine and can get on the net no problem - what a relief !!! :rolleyes: I will have a look at Sygate and other suggestions when have a bit more time . cheers Misty :) Good call, ZA is bollocks . Make you wonder why ZA rates so well in certain magazines . If one was paranoid one might think its all the advertising Zonelabs do in those magazines or backhanders or something, much like the Bermuda triangle we will probably never know . |
Battleneter (60) | ||
| 396526 | 2005-10-29 04:24:00 | Got over my inertia and procrastination today and decided that too risky to continue shutting down ZoneAlarm just so that I could get on the net . I have downloaded and now have running Kerio (and have uninstalled ZoneAlarm) . So far everything looks fine and can get on the net no problem - what a relief !!! :rolleyes: I will have a look at Sygate and other suggestions when have a bit more time . cheers Misty :) Distrowatch has a list of linux-based firewalls here ( . com/dwres . php?resource=major" target="_blank">distrowatch . com) . Just install on an old throwaway like a 486 or an early pentium as a gateway, and administer them from a browser on another machine . ClarkConnect, Smoothwall and IPCOP I know are fairly easy to install and administer, and stuff like port-forwarding are no problem . Some of them even have web proxies and IP masquerading, which contribute to security . The proxy can be configured quite easily to kill all unwanted web content, and some can even shape and limit traffic, and significantly speeds up your browsing experience through caching . Most (all?) are free (open source) downloads . You will still need an AV if you run Windows though . |
vinref (6194) | ||
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