Re: Mcafee Pers Firewall mysterious discontinuity

From: Chuck (cacrollthespam_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/22/03 

Date: 22 Oct 2003 15:58:04 -0500

On 22 Oct 2003 02:44:17 -0700, valuers@aol.com (salina) wrote:

>I have the Mcafee Personal firewall free with aol broadband. The
>computer had been online for 24 hours when I noticed that the firewall
>had reported no events during that time, although the firewall
>otherwise appeared to be operating normally. I restarted the computer
>and the event reporting resumed at the usual one or two events a
>minute.
>
>Could someone have stopped the firewall from the outside, or is the
>firewall secure and it is just the reporting that has stopped, please?

Some viruses have the ability to stop security software on an infected
computer. Swen, for instance, stops a number of processes which
various firewalls depend upon. But restarting the computer would not
make Swen go away.

Presuming that you do a regular virus scan using up to date
signatures, how about a spyware check? Spybot S&D followed by
HijackThis will detect some viruses - both are free, and you should be
using them just as much as virus scanning anyway. The folks at SWI
Forums are good with this sort of situation. Start here (ignore
article title):
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=5187

Chuck
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Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

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