Re: How good is AOL's firewall and anti-spyware

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Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 11:11:48 -0500

Hi Andy.

I don't use AOL but I know some less fortunate people [uncle and sister for
starts] that do and I have not heard of any such problems from them. My
Uncle is a heavy Ebay user. Of course I would scan her computer totally for
malware/spyware and if the problem persists maybe advise a clean install for
her. I would also warn her about phishing [show her the link below] which I
assume you know about and in general tell her to NEVER use a website link
from an email which is how much of the activity you describe is happening.
The other thing I suggest is that users do not use the autosave feature of
Internet Explorer for passwords and to use a unique password for Ebay as
people tend to use the same password for everything, and to only logon to
Ebay, etc from KNOWN secure computers and not from a friends, coworkers,
public computer. If other users have physical access to her computer or
computers that she accesses Ebay from then that of course is another area of
concern. I really tend to doubt that it is an AOL security issue. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/email/phishing.mspx

"andy smart" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I have this friend (NO REALLY!) who is having issue with her ebay
> account being compromised. She's changed her password details and
> assures me that password is very random and hard to guess; I tend to
> trust her on this.
>
> Naturally I am beginning to wonder about remote access software...
>
> She is running a dial-up AOL account, with their firewall and
> anti-spyware. I have no experience with AOL, and I'd be interested in
> people's opinions regarding their 'in house' products. Would people
> advocate, and indeed is it possible, to run something like ZA rather
> than the AOL product?
>
> tia
> andy

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