is my system safe ?

leon · 2006-07-26T17:15:44+00:00

I run winxp home, no file sharing,irc,p2p,windows messenger. Only protocol loaded is tcp. About 25 processes running.Security centre, automatic updates, fast user switching, secondary logon, ipsec, system restore, remote desktop, sddp,and universal plug & play, and some others are disabled.I run winxp firewall with no exceptions but allow icmp echo and outgoings.Avast virus free running and this is the only app i allow to automatically update all other updates i take care of manually.Mailwasher takes care of email.Ie and xp all up to date.Tried opera/firefox but found them to be crap.Scan from time to time with Ewido.Thats about it, so am i safe, or should i get a router or better software firewall.

Jul 26, 2006 67 Replies

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Duane Arnold 20 years ago

The bottom line here is you're talking about stuff I already know. .NET which is not platform, browser, or language specific will start to change all of that, IMHO.

There are several types of solutions out there. Internet with its requirements, Internet/Intranet with its requirements, Intranet and its requirements, non Web based and its requirements, .NET solutions and non .NET solutions.

I build solutions based on the requirements and that's it. That's all that counts. I am not into the what it should or should not be. I am out here to make $$$$$$ and give the client what they ask for and .NET is versatile enough to allow me to produce the solutions needed.

Duane :)

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Sebastian Gottschalk 20 years ago

"BTW" is a usual term to explicitly mark content that doesn't necessarily belong to the subject. If that content is explained or not, your complaint on this not belonging to the subject is invalid in any case.

Yes, this is what a lack of explanation is like.

Your reply address only needs to be valid - however, there's absolutely no demand to read it at all and therefore spam is not a problem. It isn't anyway, as spam filters exist and allow to keep on doing direct eMail communication without any strange hassles.

Fools like you are destroying the medium eMail because they're unwilling to understand that open communication and lack of unsolicited communication are mutually exclusive.

As you might have already noticed, English is not my native language. It's not that I would intentionally violate grammar rules.

But you're violating a technical and a social rule for absolutely no good reason.

BTW: fup2p

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Sebastian Gottschalk 20 years ago

No one cares for your WEB solution, you can do as your want on your network and partitially on your server - but stop claiming that it would be the ultimate through for the entire web and all its servers + content.

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Duane Arnold 20 years ago

You're a *clown* and you should disappear. But I know you're just too dumb to do it. I know I very seldom read any of your posts, because you post to damn much. You're choking out the NG.

If a fly posted up in here about its problems, you'll post 129,000 times on that too.

Duane :(

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JackRnl 20 years ago

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> POrobably off topic but as "you" mention Noscript (indirectly) I'll post it anyway. I did install NoScript and it does help, but at

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so much crap comes from Yahoo itself. I see Yahoo Pulse, Yahoo Shopping, Yahoo foto's, Marketplace and other stuff I just don't want to see and get rid off. How can I block it (I don't want to block all scripts from yahoo.com)?

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