Re: Is a Firewall Necessary with Dial-Up?
From: Larry W4CSC (spaminator@knology.net)Date: 05/20/02
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From: spaminator@knology.net (Larry W4CSC) Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 12:22:35 GMT
No, it's not. Just make sure you have a good virus scanner like
Norton Anti-Virus that's kept up-to-date with weekly definition
updates from the Auto update facility. You'll be scanned on dialup,
but it means nothing.
I DO recommend getting away from Outlook Express, which is like
walking around the city with a huge "KICK ME HARD" sign on your back.
OE is what the worms are all targeted for, so why be a target. The
systems I setup all use Pegasus 4 for email, Free Agent for text
newsgroups like this one, SBNews bot for stripping binary newsgroups
and XNews for selectively downloading binaries from newsgroups.
There's another message I posted, yesterday, that tells you the
particulars of my recommendations which are very successful. While
you're uninstalling OE from the Windows Setup tab of Add/Remove
Programs in Control Panel (or wherever Billy hid it in XP), uninstall
Windows Scripting Host, too. Windows Scripting Host (WSH) is Billy's
gift to the worm coders. It runs "Visual Basic Scripting" (.vbs)
files. If vbs worms have no operating system installed in Windows,
they can't run! Sound logical? It's not rocket science. Both of
these cracker targets are part of Windows, any flavor. Without OE
spreading the worms to your Address Book friends and WSH running them
on your computer....you're immune even if you DO get one! You don't
need WSH at all. It was a gift to the spyware spammers.
There are two main issues on browsers that are big security
holes....javaSCRIPT (not Java) and ActiveX....both of which allow
webpages to run vicious code. It's like giving webpage operators
their own little operating system on trust to run code on YOUR
computer. I handle this problem by having one browser (Opera 6 here)
with everything turned off....no cookies, javascript, activex,
nothing.....and one browser (IE6) with everything turned on for when I
just gotta have it and am forced to trust the webpage (like Windows
Update). Javascript and ActiveX are being used by vicious webpage
operators to run code on your system to trash it like a virus....but
sneak past the FUDware firewalls, etc., which allow the browser access
to the internet.
Another great addition to your browser is WebWasher from
www.webwasher.com, the great engineers from Siemens in Germany.
Webwasher is a proxy server all html runs through. It sits between
the browsers and the net, filtering out spam, popup windows, cookies,
web bugs, URL code with embedded data collected from your computer,
etc.....before it can get out on the net. Code calls for a spam from
doubleclick. WW intercepts the call and REPLIES with a byte, making
the code think it got to talk to the server, thwarting their efforts
to spam you but not waiting for the browser call to time out. Dialup
customers, like yourself, will REALLY appreciate the increase in
speed, not having to load those moving GIF monster movies on every
commercial webpage and those popup movies from the spammers. WW is
free for home use. Works great!
Look for W4CSC back to yesterday to get direct access on
www.tucows.com to get the shareware/freeware above.....
On Sun, 19 May 2002 23:35:32 -0700, "Chris Hecker"
<chrish@solarwinds.com> wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>I have a dial-up internet access. Could you tell me if a firewall is
>necessary? Thanks in advance for any info.
>
>Chris
>
>Christopher's Place - http://www.solarwinds.com/users/chrish
>
>
Larry
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