Re: Firewall or Anti Trojan Program

From: x y (jamescagney90210@excite.com)
Date: 07/03/02 

From: "x y" <jamescagney90210@excite.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 13:27:34 -0400

I agree... sygate is very highly configurable, unlike XP's firewall which is
not. You definitely want filtering of outbound traffic. You may need to
exclude the sygate folder from being scanned by your antivirus.

Watch out if you try to run both a memory resident on-access antivirus and
anti-trojan program, many of them are incompatible and will detect each
other as viruses. However, you can run one of them as an on-demand scanner
only, to just scan your hard drive from time to time, though if you find
something on your machine with the on-demand scanner, it may be too late.

"bassbag" <bassbag@bodybags.dragon.wales> wrote in message
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>
> "Alan Fader" <poorpoorfader@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:DFCU8.17015$vq.631996@bin6.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com...
> > I am currently using avg as my antiviral program and I am also using
> windows
> > xp's firewall like program. Would I still need a real firewall program
> like
> > Sygate or maybe install an anti Trojan program. I use a broadband
> connection
> > with no others computers and I am connected directly to my cable modem.
> Any
> > help is appreciated. I am very hesitant about installing a firewall due
to
> > lack of knowledge and potential system problems if it is not configured
> > right. thanks in Advance!!!
> >
> The xp firewall only alerts/blocks incoming traffic , to your computer not
> outgoing so anything malicious e.g trojan ,spyware etc ,will be able to
> connect out ; therefore I would disable XPs firewall and put a "proper"
one
> on :).As for an anti trojan programme some people prefer a seperate anti
> trojan whereas others might argue that Kaspersky anti virus has as good
> detection rates for trojans as a dedicated trojan scanner.AVG (which I
also
> use) is not the best at detecting trojans.So if you are gonna stick with
AVG
> get a trojan scanner too , or pay for an anti virus programme like
kaspersky
> which has excellent trojan detection too.Probably the best trojan scanner
is
> TDS3 from here...
> http://tds.diamondcs.com.au/
> A cheap and effective way to detect trojans etc is to install regprot
(free)
> from here (though it wont clean them once you are infected)
> http://www.diamondcs.com.au/web/htm/regprot.htm
> quote
> "RegistryProt is a 100% free, standalone, compact, low-level realtime
> registry monitor and protector, that adds another dimension to Windows
> security and intrusion detection. By monitoring important locations and
keys
> in the Windows system registry, RegistryProt will alert whenever a key is
> added or changed, and then give the option of accepting the key change,
> reverting back to the original key setting, or deleting the key.
>
> RegistryProt's most useful attribute is that it will detect the vast
> majority of trojans at the exact moment that they infect/install
themselves
> into your system, and as such provides a new dimension in trojan and
> intrusion detection"
> me
>
>
>
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>
>

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