Tesseract Posted May 24, 2004 Posted May 24, 2004 Apart from in January. I just havent had any problems, you people have bulls eyes painted on your ip adresses, lol
Sayonara Posted May 24, 2004 Posted May 24, 2004 I suggest you run Adaware and do a full sweep with a decent, up-to-date virus checker.
Tesseract Posted May 24, 2004 Posted May 24, 2004 I suggest you run Adaware and do a full sweep with a decent, up-to-date virus checker. I deleted my Adware and my Norton antivirus isnt functional anymore.But I dont have any spyware or adware because I used spybot yesterday. Im telling you I dont have any viruses.
Sayonara Posted May 24, 2004 Posted May 24, 2004 I would put money on your PC having at least 1 uninvited guest if you use no defences of any sort. Describe your set-up. I'm betting you're behind a physical gateway?
Tesseract Posted May 24, 2004 Posted May 24, 2004 I would put money on your PC having at least 1 uninvited guest if you use no defences of any sort. Describe your set-up. I'm betting you're behind a physical gateway? I have no clue what your talking about?
Sayonara Posted May 24, 2004 Posted May 24, 2004 Is your PC plugged directly into a modem, or are you on a network?
Tesseract Posted May 24, 2004 Posted May 24, 2004 Is your PC plugged directly into a modem, or are you on a network? Modem I have DSL from AOL.
Tesseract Posted May 24, 2004 Posted May 24, 2004 Doesn't AOL bb come with a firewall and A/V? It comes with a firewall, which I purposly have offline, seriously offline. It causes to many complications.
Sayonara Posted May 24, 2004 Posted May 24, 2004 If you have a direct modem connection, no firewall, and no a/v, I guarantee your PC is being port scanned constantly by worms, and I wouldn't be surprised if you've picked a good few up. What OS do you use?
aommaster Posted May 24, 2004 Posted May 24, 2004 And what firewall do they provide? Or is it one of their own-made firewalls?
Tesseract Posted May 24, 2004 Posted May 24, 2004 If you have a direct modem connection' date=' no firewall, and no a/v, I [b']guarantee[/b] your PC is being port scanned constantly by worms, and I wouldn't be surprised if you've picked a good few up. What OS do you use? XP professional why does thta matter?Im going to run an antivirus scan right now, and Ill show you the results.
Sayonara Posted May 24, 2004 Posted May 24, 2004 Yes the O/S matters, because some (like XP) are constantly found to have gaping great security holes. Make sure your A/V is fully updatd before you run it.
Sayonara Posted May 24, 2004 Posted May 24, 2004 And what firewall do they provide? Or is it one of their own-made firewalls? McAfee I think.
Tesseract Posted May 24, 2004 Posted May 24, 2004 Yes the O/S matters' date=' because some (like XP) are constantly found to have gaping great security holes. Make sure your A/V is fully updatd before you run it.[/quote'] Well its too late for that.
aommaster Posted May 24, 2004 Posted May 24, 2004 McAfee I think. Well, i would say that he should use Zone Alarm. I use it and its quite good. Have you used it before?
Sayonara Posted May 24, 2004 Posted May 24, 2004 Yes, but I'm behind a physical gateway at the minute so I don't need a FW.
Sayonara Posted May 24, 2004 Posted May 24, 2004 Well its too late for that. Too late for what? To update your A/V? If it's not up-to-date, it will just miss a lot of problems. Last week Sophos issued about 40 new virus warnings - if you haven't updated since January you can imagine the unseen horrors.
Tesseract Posted May 24, 2004 Posted May 24, 2004 Jeez how do you people get so many viruses?I dont think you need that much protection.
Tesseract Posted May 24, 2004 Posted May 24, 2004 Too late for what? To update your A/V? If it's not up-to-date' date=' it will just miss a lot of problems. Last week Sophos issued about 40 new virus warnings - if you haven't updated since January you can imagine the unseen horrors.[/quote'] I just updated my Norton 2003 and I restarted, I update it once a month Sayonara...
aommaster Posted May 24, 2004 Posted May 24, 2004 Jeez how do you people get so many viruses?I dont think you need that much protection I don't really get virusses, its just the fact that I feel more comfortable that I am behind a firewall!
Sayonara Posted May 24, 2004 Posted May 24, 2004 Jeez how do you people get so many viruses?I dont think you need that much protection. Nobody has actually said "hey I get X viruses", so I don't know what you're talking about. I don't get viruses. That's not because I don't know they're there, it's because I know how to recognise and avoid them, and if they do get on they last less than a millisecond because I am well-defended.
Sayonara Posted May 24, 2004 Posted May 24, 2004 Physical Gateway? A PC acting as a central Unix hub for a LAN, running hardware and software firewalls.
Sayonara Posted May 24, 2004 Posted May 24, 2004 I just updated my Norton 2003 and I restarted, I update it once a month Sayonara... Then what is "too late"?
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