Re: Do I Need a Firewall?
From: Larry (nospam_at_home.com)
Date: 07/10/03
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Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 23:48:34 GMT
Are you a dialup customer? If so, you don't need it because you're
not online with the same IP constantly. Chances of being attacked on
dialup are small.....
I see you're using Outlook Express, the biggest cracker target on the
internet, for your news reader, and probably email. Now, THERE is an
issue! Outlook has a long history of trashing people's systems with
its various widely exploited holes (like Swiss Cheeze) by the cracker
community. Its perpensity to run malicious webpages, vbs scripts and
drag you off to places you didn't want to go to is well documented.
I'd suggest sealing up the system, before worrying about the FUDware
Firewall garbage.
Export your Address Book or print it out then delete Outlook or
Outlook Express from your system. Erase your Address Book so various
virii cannot read it and send itself to your friends and business
associates to infect them in your honor.
Uninstall Windows Scripting Host, the operating system used to run
Visual Basic Scripting (.vbs) files emailed to you. The spammers will
be upset, but they'll get over it. Without a scripting host, it's
just another text file. I have about 300 in my collection. Great
reading from coding geniuses.
Turn off Java, Java Scripting and Active X in whatever browser you use
to cruise around to unknown websites. Without these, your browser is,
mostly, immune from being hijacked by the websites various
self-running programs. I bought Opera for my general purpose browser,
simply because the crackers aren't trying to trash Opera and generally
ignore it. All this stuff is turned off in Opera. I use IE to access
the Windows Update webpages with everything set to default. If a
COMMERCIAL website just won't talk to my secure Opera browser, I make
the decision (not them) whether to call the website back with IE to
give them access to my system.
Download Webwasher from www.webwasher.com for free. It strips all the
crap and advertising nonsense off webpages. Works so well the
spammers have special communications groups to try to thwart it. No
popup windows, Java scripts doing bad things, gif movie ads wasting
your downloading time (especially on dialup!). Works great. Thank
the genius engineers at Siemens in Germany for inventing it.
Download Ad-Aware from www.lavasoft.de and let it scan and delete the
crapware/spyware/adware spies off your system. The record here is 386
spywares on ONE computer that was just to its knees trying to run it
all! Download Ad-Aware's update software while you're there to get
the latest adware definition files automatically. Sure speeds up a
system not recording everything you do and every place you go for the
spammers.
There.....that's better! Still scared? On DSL or cable internet 24/7
like me? Go buy a Netgear RP614 netsafe router and put it between
your DSL or cable modem and the vulnerable operating system. You'll
be even MORE stealthy with the router. Trash my IP 192.168.0.2.
Help yourself. A router takes your Swiss Cheezy Windows operating
system OFF the internet, completely, so it doesn't have to deal with
port scans, Denial of Service attacks (DoS), people screwing around
trying to access Windows' various sharing services, etc. Even if you
never intend to buy a 2nd machine to put on the Netgear's automatic
LAN, it's a real bargain. It doesn't need bugfixes like FUDware does
and the best thing is..............
IT USES NO CPU TIME ON YOUR COMPUTER! Your computer isn't involved
doing other things FUDware software firewalls do sucking up CPU time
you could be using doing what YOU want to do. That, alone, is worth
the price!......(c;
A router stops INCOMING trouble.....If there is spyware, adware, or
the various trojan horses running INSIDE your computer, it won't stop
them. So, you MUST run a SUBSCRIPTION SUPPORTED, good anti-virus
program like Norton Anti-Virus 2003 with a PAID subscription so you
get daily updates of its definition files with all the latest threats
that constantly upgrade its capabilities. http://www.symantec.com/
Take a look at TODAY'S news they have already installed in MY
anti-virus security. It's really worth the price IF you care about
your system. Free, unsupported antivirus just can't keep up-to-date.
That takes people and MONEY.....
Now you're pretty safe. Even my FTP server runs quite safely this
way....(c;
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 15:02:10 +0300, "Dobi Yonkoff"
<spgonzaless@msn.com> wrote:
>hi
>i've downloaded a firewall but not sure i need one
>can anyone tell me why should i use this thing
>tnx
>
>
73 de Larry W4CharlestonSC
RF radiation hazards since 1957...
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