[austechwriter] Re: Security & privacy - personal firewall and spyware eliminator
- From: Melanie Kendell <Melanie.Kendell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:38:24 +1000
Hi Warren
What's the problem with bigpond users?
-Melanie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Warren Lewington [mailto:wjlewington@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 2003 12:37 PM
> To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [austechwriter] Re: Security & privacy - personal
> firewall and
> spyware eliminator
>
>
> Hello everyone!
> I got fed up with the interference caused by interruptions when I
> belatedly installed Norton firewall.
>
> What I have now got is a Netgear Router, available from any of the
> computer sales mobs, fairly cheaply and it prevents access or
> interruptions.
>
> I also acts as a hub, great for connecting computers to the net.
> I can be doing research with my old server slave and be
> working on stuff
> at the same time!
>
> If you are getting irritated by the constant attempts to brreak in, a
> router makes a huge difference. (Bigpond users need to shop carefully
> though).
>
> Warren.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Fagan
> Sent: Saturday, 6 September 2003 9:59 AM
> To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [austechwriter] Security & privacy - personal firewall and
> spyware eliminator
>
> Michael Grant wrote:
>
> "...run Sygate Personal Firewall (freeware and fabulous) from
> <http://www.sygate.com/>...
>
> ...and the Lavasoft Ad Aware spyware eliminator (personal freeware
> version) from <http://www.lavasoft.de/>, the latter of which
> detected 46
> malignant spyware programs on my folks' PC...I'd bet that
> there at least
> 20 spyware programs lurking on most people's PCs as we speak.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael Granat"
>
>
> Thanks for these suggestions Michael.
>
> I followed your recommendations, although I installed Kerio Personal
> Firewall - <http://www.kerio.com/kpf_download.html> which was also
> recommended to me.
>
> As a dial-up user who spends very little time on the net at
> home, I was
> amazed at the number of uninvited visitors my firewall is reporting.
> And,
> true to your prediction, Ad Aware detected 32 data mining
> cookies and 3
> suspicious Registry keys on its first scan of my PC.
>
> For those not already up to speed on this, I would recommend following
> Michael's advice. The exercise has been valuable from the security and
> privacy point of view and also very interesting.
>
> Peter Fagan
>
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