Re: [PCWorks] A tip for stopping annoying harassing "slide-ups" (a kind of pop-up) immune to pop-up blockers
- From: Hugh Vandervoort <hughv2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:34:20 -0500
1.As I said, your AV program should warn you of this. I've never been
involved in an attack of this kind, but others have told me that AVG
warned them of such an attack.
2.I always make sure my friends have:
A NAT firewall.
Anti-Virus. Almost always AVG free
Windows Defender
The Windows Firewall turned on.
I have installed Spybot with Tea Timer for my regulars who get into
trouble through careless or overly aggressive surfing.(Usually porn).
Other than the occasional Spyware problem, none of these people have
ever had a significant problem. In most cases, these problems are caused
by children, and in those cases I install a limited user account.
If you have children who use your computer, you can count on a disaster
of some kind unless you educate them properly, or use a limited account.
Spybot is especially good at preventing problems in these cases, but it
must be kept up to date.
My friends are not particularly savvy or adventurous, but if I had more
input, I'd recommend Mac or Ubuntu Linux for the average Email using,
web surfing occasional Word processing user I usually see.
4. I don't see how a duplicate in the HOSTS file could cause any harm.
Spybot only added to my HOSTS file.
5. My reading suggests this is correct. A further advantage of the HOSTS
file is that it works regardless of which browser you're using.
David Grossman wrote:
> Thank you for your responses.
>
> 1. John's response confirmed one of my initial suspicions, as I wrote in my
> initial message - that malware can change the Read Only attribute, so the
> setting is of little value.
>
> 2. Hugh presented a surprising, but somewhat convincing argument against
> using a firewall. Have others had similar experiences? Is the problem
> limited to Comodo?
> Actually, everybody probably DOES have a firewall installed and turned on by
> now. The weak Windows firewall was turned on by default with XP SP1 or SP2
> (I forgot which).
> Hugh, do you turn off the Windows firewall for your clients, or do you
> disable it when there is a problem?
>
> 3. Clint, you asked whether there is anything wrong with having duplicates
> in the Hosts file. Did you get a response? If they will not cause a problem
> (except for possibly adding some nanoseconds for websites to load) then we
> can just add lists with addresses.
>
> 4. I'm still concerned about Spybot or other antimalware programs deleting
> the entries that I add.
>
> 5. I would like to confirm my understanding about adding IP numbers instead
> of website names to the Hosts file. Is the following summary correct?
> - Add website addresses to the Hosts file
> - Add IP numbers to the Restricted Zone
>
> 5. I'd like to find out the experience of others with the HostsMan and
> Wikipedia hosts files before installing them in my computer. Has anybody on
> this group used them?
>
> David Grossman
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