Re: How many personal firewalls in a system?


"Volker Birk" <bumens@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Wayne McGlinn <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I agree totally! The good thing about MS Antispyware is that it
*prevents*
malware from being installed; it pops up a huge red box warning you and
also
allows you to see any browser "helpers" that have been or are trying to
be
installed.

Did I already mention, that I'm not using Internet Explorer for not
having such threats at all?

As I said, try it, you can't really comment until you've seen the
product.

The concept to detect Spyware does not differ from the concept to detect
other malware, say: viruses. After all, I don't need even a virus
scanner (while one could help to filter away what's coming from
outside). I'm using a spam filter, and that's all.

Yours,
VB.
--
At first there was the word. And the word was Content-type: text/plain

Fair enough mate, I respect your stance. The way I teach and work is to use,
as much as possible, products and applications that are native to the
operating system. To that end, I use XP sp2 with the Windows Firewall,
Internet Explorer and Windows Defender. My pc (and my family's pcs) have
never been compromised; nor has my web/mail/firewall server.
I have, and will, run other operating systems, browsers and firewalls to
fully understand the advantages and disadvantages of each. That's all I'm
asking you to do, try IE with Windows Defender so you see what is available
to the average, home user :)

Wayne


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