Re: NAsty Message

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 09:14:14 -0500, Leythos wrote:

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 09:08:00 -0500, Michael B. Trausch wrote:

All you really need are a pop-up blocker (Firefox has one built-in that is
reasonably good--and you can pretty easily get an ad-blocker for it, too,
that prevents a good deal more of crud from being able to get in), a
decent anti-virus program (AVG Free does a decent job and also detects
many types of malware), and HijackThis, which is a Windows utility to help
find things that have installed themselves into places like the Windows
registry.

All you really need is to secure the machine and install a firewall for
the internet connections that filters crap out of HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3,
FTP sessions and 99% of the Windows people will be free from trouble.


Software firewalls aren't that effective, particularly when they are
running on the machine that they're designed to protect. If one must run
Windows, all that is really needed is a little bit of thought and the three
programs that I mentioned above. Most Windows users are sitting behind a
NAT, which takes care of blocking incoming connections, and those that
aren't behind a NAT, probably should be.

Also, you can't really filter HTTPS through a firewall. You would need a
proxy for that, because all the firewall would see is a stream of
encrypted packets. Systems should be secure enough, anyway, to not
require filtration of the protocols that people use on the
Internet, anyway.

-- Mike
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