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 Dec 18 2005, 02:36 AM
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Dec 18 2005, 03:29 AM
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 Bleepin' cat's meow Group: BC Advisor Posts: 8,524 Joined: 11-January 05 From: Baton Rouge, La. Member No.: 9,323 |
I personally have been using a freeware antivirus, and firewall for several year. I have not use PC-illin. But the freeware equivalent are second to none. They are light on resources, reliable, and secure.
Here is a list of what the members here use and recommend... Antivirus (Run only one) AVG Free Edition Antivirus (I personally use) Avast Home Edition Antivirus Freeware AntiVir Personal Edition Classic Freeware BitDefender 8 Free Edition AntiVirus Freeware Firewalls (Use only one) Zone Alarm SyGate Personal Edition OutPost Firewall Free Jetico Personal Free Kerio Personal Firewall They are all freeware, and are full featured. I believe you will be pleasantly suprized. Good luck and Merry Christmas. --------------------  "2007 & 2008 Windows Shell/User Award" |
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Dec 18 2005, 10:55 AM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 177 Joined: 13-December 05 From: Missouri Member No.: 44,571 |
Before I put the NPF 2006 on I downloaded the ZoneAlarm firewall but I had trouble using it. Do you know if their firewall is already set by default? I think what I need to do is look around and see if I can find some operation and set-up instructions. I'm not too sharp on setting up the firewall.
This post has been edited by socom 004: Dec 18 2005, 10:56 AM -------------------- HP Pavillion a1723w, 820 dual-core processor, 250 G hard drive, 1 G RAM
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Dec 18 2005, 11:16 AM
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Bleepin' cat's meow Group: BC Advisor Posts: 8,524 Joined: 11-January 05 From: Baton Rouge, La. Member No.: 9,323 |
Firewalls don't play nice with each other. If must make sure one of them is totally removed from your system. If not they will fight each other and cause conflicts.
If it were me I would go with ZA. -------------------- "2007 & 2008 Windows Shell/User Award" |
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Dec 18 2005, 12:00 PM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 177 Joined: 13-December 05 From: Missouri Member No.: 44,571 |
My dsl modem has a firewall and the WinXp has one also. I do only use one at a time though. I deactivated the modems wall and the XP's firewall. Currently I use only the NPF 2006. Thanks.
-------------------- HP Pavillion a1723w, 820 dual-core processor, 250 G hard drive, 1 G RAM
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Dec 18 2005, 12:19 PM
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Bleepin' cat's meow Group: BC Advisor Posts: 8,524 Joined: 11-January 05 From: Baton Rouge, La. Member No.: 9,323 |
 Not the hardware firewall. It is a must for good LAN security. A hardware firewal will not interfer and is an excellent means of defence. The firewall in XP should have been disabled by NPF and/or ZA. -------------------- "2007 & 2008 Windows Shell/User Award" |
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Dec 18 2005, 01:12 PM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 177 Joined: 13-December 05 From: Missouri Member No.: 44,571 |
The modem is a 2Wire Homeportal 1000HG that SBC Yahoo sends out with their DSL package. It has a firewall that can be activated or deactivated. Sbc has another software firewall they offer too. They said not to run both. Is it ok for me to use the 2Wire modem firewall along with the NPF 2006? Thanks.
-------------------- HP Pavillion a1723w, 820 dual-core processor, 250 G hard drive, 1 G RAM
Windows Vista Home Premium Norton Internet Securities 2008, Windows Defender, Webroot SpySweeper, AVG Anti-Spyware Free Edition, Spybot S&D Altec Lansing Sound Speakers |
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Dec 18 2005, 01:29 PM
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Bleepin' cat's meow Group: BC Advisor Posts: 8,524 Joined: 11-January 05 From: Baton Rouge, La. Member No.: 9,323 |
I run a hardware and a software firewall. I have on built into my Linksys router, and I use SyGate. No problems.
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Dec 18 2005, 01:31 PM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 177 Joined: 13-December 05 From: Missouri Member No.: 44,571 |
Thanks aclan! I'm going to activate it now. The 2Wire gives the options:"allow individual applications" or "maximum protection" disallow unsolicitated inbound traffic. The default setting is to allow individual applications. What do you think, the max?
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Dec 19 2005, 01:35 PM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 177 Joined: 13-December 05 From: Missouri Member No.: 44,571 |
QUOTE(acklan @ Dec 18 2005, 11:19 AM)  Not the hardware firewall. It is a must for good LAN security. A hardware firewal will not interfer and is an excellent means of defence. The firewall in XP should have been disabled by NPF and/or ZA. Acklan, I activated the 2Wire modem firewall, it has 2 choices. Allow individual applications or maximum protection. I put it on Max. Does that sound ok? Everything seems to be working fine and the system passed on the GRC and Sygate security tests. -------------------- HP Pavillion a1723w, 820 dual-core processor, 250 G hard drive, 1 G RAM
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Dec 19 2005, 01:48 PM
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Bleepin' cat's meow Group: BC Advisor Posts: 8,524 Joined: 11-January 05 From: Baton Rouge, La. Member No.: 9,323 |
As long as you are secure I believe you are ok. When you refer to GRC you are talking about the Shields Up® test? Gibson Research Corp.
I think you are will protected. -------------------- "2007 & 2008 Windows Shell/User Award" |
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Dec 19 2005, 02:06 PM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 177 Joined: 13-December 05 From: Missouri Member No.: 44,571 |
That's correct on the Shields Up test. After going through all of the settings on the 2Wire modem I found the "stealth" setting and the "ping" setting. I selected both of them and checked the "max protection". So now it looks like this: Norton Systemworks 2005, NPF 2006, SBC Anti-Spy, Webroot SpySweeper, Ad-aware SE.
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Dec 19 2005, 02:20 PM
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Bleepin' cat's meow Group: BC Advisor Posts: 8,524 Joined: 11-January 05 From: Baton Rouge, La. Member No.: 9,323 |
If you have the memory resources I would also run...
Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta (2000,and XP only) Spybot They both has active, real time scan and will intercept registry changes. -------------------- "2007 & 2008 Windows Shell/User Award" |
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Dec 19 2005, 02:39 PM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 177 Joined: 13-December 05 From: Missouri Member No.: 44,571 |
Thanks for the help. It's appreciated.
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Dec 19 2005, 02:49 PM
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Bleepin' cat's meow Group: BC Advisor Posts: 8,524 Joined: 11-January 05 From: Baton Rouge, La. Member No.: 9,323 |
Any time. If you need more help please feel free to ask. I'm always here.
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