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Okay...U have a cable connection which is on 24/7, it is just begging to be used..hence the need for a firewall. Tell me, how do you explain police knocking on my door about the misuse of my connection for malicious activity on a FRESH install off the "no no, i love microsoft, there software is perfect"? My isp had to prove with logs that it wasnt me, a hacker simply broke into my comp, used it almost as a proxy you could say...I got a firewall, Zone Alarm Pro, perfect piece of software, it hides all your ports...heres one go to http://grc.com/default.htm and try the "ShieldsUp!" script...mine are all green, green for stealth...Blue is okay, but then the hacker knows your there, red is bad...Run the "All service ports"...

No offence, but you have no idea what you are talking about when it comes to computer security, this has become somewhat of a cliche..A robber comes to your house...sees no doors or windows or a house = green for stealth...it goes to another house, finds doors and windows but with locks on them, takes time but can get in...= blue, lastly, goes to the house to find doors and windows open = red..

And yes, alot of programs out there do connect to the internet without your concent (well yes, when you agree to the license agreement)...

Moral of the story?? Get a firewall, less spam, more protection, and privacy.


Cheers

yeah baby ,yeah baby ,yeah baby, yeah

beautiful arguments !


(Welcome to W2S :-) )

(@Mertsch again u updated ur Hardware :-) )
<--- all seeing eye

just remodulated ....3 HDDs RAID does not make that much sense since PCI Limit is reached ... 2 work like charm, too - maybe 5% less performance but makes more sense this way

ok....here some older news again:
first german:
"Hacken mit Freeware-Tools
(Martin) Ihr glaubt nicht, dass man mit Freeware effektiv hacken kann? Dann solltet Ihr Euch mal die Geschichte von diesen Jungs anhören.

Sicherheitsberater des Unternehmens "Forensic Tec" sind mit überall erhältlichen Freeware Tools in den Hauptrechner der US-Armee eingedrungen. Wer jetzt denkt, dass das doch wirklich eine tolle Leistung ist, liegt allerdings nicht unbedingt richtig.

Nach Angabe der Hacker war der Armee-Rechner einfach schlecht geschützt. Von vielen Anwendern seien oft gar keine Passwörter benutzt worden oder nur recht offensichtliche wie "Administrator" oder "Password" - wirklich nicht sehr einfalssreich.

Und die Hacker fanden natürlich einige vertrauliche Dinge vor: E-Mails und Kreditkartennummern von ranghohen Offizieren ebenso wie von einfachen Rekruten. Aber auch Laserverschlüsselungsinformationen oder Kryptographie-Schlüssel lagen plötzlich offen.

Die US-Armee dagegen fand den Vorstoß der Hacker gar nicht so witzig und stufte ihn als Verbrechen ein. Vor einem US-Gericht könnte den Computer-Hackern gar eine lebenslange Haft blühen."

http://www1.giga.de/stories_u4/0,3204,40041,00.html

now english:

"Chop with Freeware Tools
don't you believes that one can chop with Freeware effectively? Then should you you times the history of these young listen to. Security advisors of the enterprise "Forensic Tec" penetrated with everywhere available Freeware Tools into the central processor of the US army. Who thinks now the fact that a mad achievement is nevertheless real does not lie however necessarily correctly. According to indication of the hackers the army computer was simply badly protected. From many users often no passwords were used or only quite obvious like "administrator" or "password" - not really a very good idea. And the hackers found naturally some confidential things: Enamel and credit card numbers of struggle-high officers just like of simple recruits. In addition, laser coding information or cryptography keys disclosure suddenly. The US army against it found the raid of the hackers not at all so funny and classified it as crime. Before a US court life imprisonment could flower to the computer hackers."

what´s the moral again?
USE A GOOD FIREWALL *smile*

so...now here´s an article, in German, sorry@all

http://www.nabooisland.com/publications/pffaq/


maybe that mertsch going to Jump because he uses no PFW,too

Absolutely True. Software Protection is good, but the bottom line is, if they got to your system in the first place, then your security is already compromised.

I use a Cisco 837 ADSL Broadband Router. It has an excellent hardware firewall, as well as many other great features. Its not cheap, but in my line of work, I really can't afford to be cheap.

For software protection, I use NIS 2004 (Haven't upgraded to 2005 yet, maybe I will as a Christmas present to myself :wink: ). I have found that NIS offers the best all around protection. I have frequently tested others such as Black Ice, Sygate, McAfee and Zone Alarm, but in the end I always come back to NIS. It is a bit more complex than other firewalls to operate, but is the features that it offers can't be beat. Symantec is also the leader in antivirus protection, and NAV is included in the NIS package.

Incidentally, in case they have fixed it, Sygate does not properly protect all ports. I can't remember which that they left open, but any is too much for me to be satisfied.

Dear Dark Biene

I use the following..

AVG : http://www.grisoft.com/doc/5/lng/us/tpl/tpl01
BSpam : http://www.bspam.com/download_bspam.htm
Zone Alarm : http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp