Re: Zone Alarm (free addition) and Netscape dialup accelerater.


On 1-Sep-2006, "Jason Edwards" <none@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have two computers at home running XP pro
SP2 in constant use by three teenagers and their friends. The only
firewall on
them is the built in one. They do not have any other "protection"
software and
they do not even have anti-virus software. Both are free of malware.

If you have no anti-virus software, how can you be so sure it is so clean?
Not that I am saying it necessarily isn't, just wondering how you would
know then.
These teenagers and their friends, would you say they are 'average'
computer users, like what we have been discussing? Or are they perhaps a
bit more knowledgeable than most?

Both use
Internet Explorer. I know it will not be possible for you to believe
this.

I can believe it, just wondering why, when there are other 'better'
browsers available (some for free too).
You were the one complaining about it earlier.

I believe that the best way to control malware is to configure your
network/computers/procedures so that you never get it.

Tried to sneak that one in, eh? Procedures. So, the user _does_ matter.

The best way to
deal with
it if you do get it at home is to spend a few minutes restoring a drive
image.

Re-active instead of pro-active?
In the meantime, how much spam has the zombie spewed?

Anyone who can correctly use a personal firewall can also do this but I
don't
see many people telling home users to make a backup image of their
computer. The
article I found on your favorite web site does contain advice on backing
up to
an external drive.

Not my 'favorite', just an example of one 'respectable' source that
advises using pf's.
--
Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.
Arthur C. Clarke
.

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