Re: Avast or Zone Alarm using proxy server?

From: Gerald Vogt (vogt_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 02/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:43:35 +0900

Lars-Erik Østerud wrote:
> But with a router/firewall, ZoneAlarm, avast! anti-virus, and regular
> scan with AdAware and Spybot S&D the system should be fairly clean :-)

This is exactly the sentence that people want to believe so that they do
not have to worry about security. If you computer is clean or not
depends on what the user does...

Gerald

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