Re: JFW & FIRE WALL SOFTWARE
- From: "Douglas DeCamp" <ddecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:44:18 -0600
For encryption I use a pretty simple tool called Directory Toolkit from Funduc
Software www.funduc.com. It has a simple to use feature to encrypt files.
This is fairly simple encryption which could be fairly easily broken by a Data
Encryption professional with today's fast computers, but should be sufficient
to keep the general user out of your files should they somehow gain a copy.
There are much more sophisticated encryption programs out their like PGP -
Pretty Good Privacy -- that use large and CPU intensive keys and would be very
hard to break, but I have not worked with any of these for quite a few years
and do not know what they have for interfaces that might work with JAWS.
Directory Toolkit is very JAWS friendly (especially if you have MSAA enabled in
your JAWS settings) and I find it much preferable to using Windows explorer.
----- Original Message -----
From: MICHAEL MCDERMOTT
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: JFW & FIRE WALL SOFTWARE
Well I think I have norton internet security with its default settings set
up. As I may have mentioned in a previous email I only contracted that one
virus over the course of a year. I wish I new and understood how to better
configure the norton internet security or if I do have the default settings in
place. I was interested in what you said about encrypting sensative data on
your system. I don't know anything about that could you teach me about that?
----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas DeCamp
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: JFW & FIRE WALL SOFTWARE
I do feel it has prevented some level of intrusions. On quite a number of
occasions when I am not working on my computer, but am nearby I will hear JAWS
read a Norton dialog about stopping an external access attempt. My ISP
provides pretty good EMail virus protection so none of them have gotten through
to where Norton needed to stop them. I have run into few virus situations and
seem to stay very clean I guess because of the sites I mostly access. I too
keep confidential data on my PC and prefer to encrypt anything really
important.
--- HTH ---
----- Original Message -----
From: MICHAEL MCDERMOTT
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: JFW & FIRE WALL SOFTWARE
Well, do you feel it has kept your computer from being attacked. What
has been your experience with viruses? I recently got the winfixer 2005 virus
and was able to remove it with Norton antivirus. Although, I am concerned
about contracting other viruses and other potential threats, especially since
my wife is trying to hook her computer up with a wireless router. I also have
sensitive data on my desktop which I would like to protect.
----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas DeCamp
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: JFW & FIRE WALL SOFTWARE
I have not done much with trying to configure the firewall. I
originally had Norton 2005 Internet Security on this computer when I got it and
just went ahead and upgraded to 2006 when the 90 days ran out. This completely
re-installed all components including anti-virus, spyware protection, &
firewall. Once installed I got occasional combo boxes that would come up and
ask if I wanted to permit or block Internet access to various programs. Norton
would always make a suggestion which I sometimes followed and sometimes did not
depending on the program. Many times I would select "block once" to se if
anything bad happened if I did not permit access to a particular program such
as Windows Media Player.. I do know that the 2005 version could be difficult
if not impossible to configure with JAWS. Certain functions could nott be
accessed even with the JAWS cursor.
Not sure this has been too helpful, but these have been my experiences.
----- Original Message -----
From: MICHAEL MCDERMOTT
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: JFW & FIRE WALL SOFTWARE
I have Norton 2005 anti virus and norton internet protection. I am
told the internet protection is a fire wall, but it is not configured and I may
need some help doing that. The antivirus is just a scaning program I guess.
----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas DeCamp
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: JFW & FIRE WALL SOFTWARE
I am reasonably happy with Norton Internet Security 2006 which
includes anti-virus & firewall. It is not completely JAWS friendly and
requires some significant use of the JAWS cursor, but will mostly
auto-configure and will use normal dialog boxes for later specific program
configuration. Overall, I am happy with it.
--- HTH ---
----- Original Message -----
From: MICHAEL MCDERMOTT
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 6:04 PM
Subject: JFW & FIRE WALL SOFTWARE
I was wondering if anyone could suggest a good fire wall program
that worked well with JFW. Also I may be in need of some help if I was to
aquire such a program so looking for assistance with that too since I don't
have much knowledge in that area! I am thinking a fire wall would help protect
a home network against viruses etc.
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