Firewalls and Broadband

Feb 05, 2005 9 Replies

I recently accidently connected by broadband to the internet without my firewall up and even though I was only on the google web site got hit by multiple trojans, viruses, adware and spyware. Quite amazing. Is computers safe?



Mabon Dane


Mabon, These days so many computer literate people are free and have lots of time. They are always ready to attack you computer. It is wise to install SpyBot Search and Destroy and Spyware Guard on your system. Activate system settings prevention and SypBot Tea Timer feature in SpyBot Search and Destroy (Anti spyware software, freeware). This will prevent your system as it asks every time any software,may be good or bad, try to change system settings. It then asks weahter to allow or deny the change. If you suspect any unwanted change just deny it. Thus even if trojan comes in it will not be able to change system settings for it to work and thus render it unoperative to make any damage to the system.

Mabon, These days so many computer literate people are free and have lots of time. They are always ready to attack you computer. It is wise to install SpyBot Search and Destroy and Spyware Guard on your system. Activate system settings prevention and SypBot Tea Timer feature in SpyBot Search and Destroy (Anti spyware software, freeware). This will prevent your system as it asks every time any software,may be good or bad, try to change system settings. It then asks weahter to allow or deny the change. If you suspect any unwanted change just deny it. Thus even if trojan comes in it will not be able to change system settings for it to work and thus render it unoperative to make any damage to the system.

Ditching the virus, spambot, spyware and patch magnet Windose is also a good start......

Michael

"Mabon Dane" wrote in news:1107587195.878908.252900 @o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:

They are going to be as safe as the person with the keyboard and mouse are going to make them safe. The buck starts and stops you.

Duane :)

"Mabon Dane" wrote in news:1107587195.878908.252900 @o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:

They are going to be as safe as the person with the keyboard and mouse are going to make them safe. The buck starts and stops you.

Duane :)

Most of what you believe to be attacks are scans, normal network noise and virus/worm activities caused by infected machines that are run by _illeterate_ users.

Wolfgang

"Mabon Dane" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:

Internet Explorer is no longer worth bothering with, as it will continually be open to security problems that cause malfunctioning. Unless, that is, you have upgraded to Windows XP SP2.

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It's best to use Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, K-Meleon or Opera instead.

The only place you will ever find safety, is the grave. As long as you are alive, the appearance of safety is only an illusion.

regards, Joe

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