[at-l] Virus software OT

[jbryankramer@msn.com (J Bryan Kramer)]

If you don't think you need a firewall then you are going to get into
trouble sooner or later. As I pointed out I'm seeing at least 4 attacks a
week and sometimes 6 or 8 attacks a night of people trying to plant trojans.
Now these people do prefer to take over systems with high speed lines but
they will stoop to taking over dialups. I am using a 56 Kb dialup while I'm
waiting for Southern Bell to finally get DSL out here.

So I think your advise is bad.

BK

"Si vis pacem para bellum"

> I think the following points are accurate:
>
> 1)  You do not need a firewall if, like me, you continue to "hike" along
> at 56k with a dial-up modem.  Firewalls are designed to protect "always
> online" computers that are hooked into the internet 100% of the time via
> dsl, cable modem, T1 line, etc.
>
> 2)  Using Netscape's browser and e-mail package can reduce the number of
> virus attacks you experience . . . I've used Netscape almost exclusively
> for 6+ years at home, and I have only had 2-3 total virus attacks.  At
> work, I've had to use microsoft products, including outlook and outlook
> express, and my virus protection software goes off constantly - almost
> daily.  Of course, the office system is online 100% of the time, and is
> exposed to a larger amount of e-mail traffic, too.
>
> thru-thinker
>
> J Bryan Kramer wrote:
>
> > I use Norton Internet Security 2002, it has the Norton
> Antivirus and Norton
> > Firewall, you really need both. The AV stops the viruses but
> the Firewall
> > stops the trojans and other attacks plus it blocks most of
> those annoying
> > adverts and it also blocks spyware. I get at least 4 trojan attacks per
> > week. A trojan for those not attuned to the jargon lets someone
> take control
> > of your computer, read, delete all files and generally do
> anything they want
> > to do with it. There are people out there who continually scan all IP
> > addresses to see if they can find vulnerable addresses. Once they have
> > control of your system, and you won't notice unless you have a firewall,
> > they can do illegal things with it.
> >
> > As for updates, you can set it to update automatically or you
> can just log
> > in once a week to manually update. Contrary to other reports Norton only
> > normally does updates once a week unless they spot something
> that calls for
> > an early update. I seem to get the automatic updates on Monday
> and I think
> > the manual files are available on Wednesday but they may have
> switched to
> > Monday for that too. Norton generally comes out on top for the magazine
> > comparisions for home av/firewall software.
> >
> > There are other good packages but you need both an AV and a Firewall.
> >
> > Bryan
> >
> > "Si vis pacem para bellum"
> >
> >
> >>All my systems use Norton Systemworks and part of that is their
> antivirus
> >>software.  You get a year of free updates when you buy the
> package and the
> >>copy on my system automatically updates daily.  It catches at
> least one or
> >>two Klez virii in my email per day!
> >>
> >>Charles
> >>
> >>
> >>>Can anyone recommend a very good virus detection software that has good
> >>>and frequent updates.  I am about fed up with McAfee and as I recall
> >>>when I used Norton's I never received an update.
> >>>
> >
> >
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