[thelist] security strategy - is mine flawed?
Tony Crockford
tonyc at boldfish.co.uk
Sun Nov 16 15:43:26 CST 2003
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:24:12 -0800 (PST), Tom Dell'Aringa
<pixelmech at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 1 - ZoneAlarm as my firewall
> 2 - NAV, completely updated
> 3 - I *Never* install any of those Kazaa like garbage.
>
> I do not have the Win firewall on, but should I? Some people advocate
> disabling ActiveX altogether. But what effect would this have on my
> system for things I *DO* want to run?
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom
Tom,
For one reason and another I moved away from Norton (too expensive and not
always updated quickly enough) and Zonealarm (I upgraded to a version that
kept crashing win2k)
I'm now using Computer Associates EZ Antivirus which has unattended
updates and seems to be faster at spotting a virus, and Sygate Personal
firewall Pro because it stopped the most attempts at getting onto my
machine and allowed me to *permit* outgoing access one application at a
time.
In the last two years of using these the only problems I've seen were when
I did a fresh install of winXP on a new laptop and ventured onto the net
for updates without protection - wham, instant blaster worm, which was
picked up, the instant I connected the laptop to the network, by Sygate
reporting an intrusion attempt from the IP address I'd just assigned to
the laptop!
Others will advise a hardware firewall I'm sure, but the combination of
Sygate and EZAV (on realtime monitoring) have worked very well for me.
HTH
Tony
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