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: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:47:44 -0500
The experts all agree that a firewall is unnecessary with dial up. Your
IP address changes so often that a hacker can't get anywhere.
If you have a NAT router and keep your system up to date, software
firewalls on a home computer are unnecessary.
Those who are still interested after all this blather might want to
check their router's firewall log to see what actually happens with port
sniffers.
John O'Flynn wrote:
> It was the ISP who pointed out the conflict when we tried to find out
> why we could no longer get on line. He said various of his other
> customers had the same problem and it was caused by the recent XP patch.
> Now comes the really violent bit. He said kill ZA. I killed ZA.
> Everything worked fine, but I felt uneasy with nothing but the lousy
> firewall in XP so I installed Comodo. Everything still worked fine and
> still does. I'll deal with any other violent conflicts if and as they
> arise. I'm quite good at those. But I'm not saddling up and riding out
> on Google looking for them.
>
> This happened on a dial-up connection in a little place out in the
> sticks, but that laptop is also used on high-speed and wireless
> connections, and my wife says there is no way she's going to run it
> without a good firewall. I quite agree.
>
> John
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