I'd back up Sygate for firewall. And I've found Panda to be really good as an anti-virus.
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UTTAD - Apr 20, 2005 1:26:13 am PDT #2537 of 10003
Strawberry disappointment.
Jon B. - Apr 20, 2005 2:40:02 am PDT #2538 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I'm about to become a 2 OS household
If there's more than one 'puter, why not just use the hardware firewall in your router?
§ ita § - Apr 20, 2005 3:49:24 am PDT #2539 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I already do. But I must be doing it wrong, because NAV has intermittently reported intrusions that reached the PC.
Jon B. - Apr 20, 2005 4:56:07 am PDT #2540 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Are you familiar with the Shields Up web utility? It could be that NAV is reporting things that are basically harmless.
§ ita § - Apr 20, 2005 5:01:07 am PDT #2541 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Cool page, Jon. Everything looks good with NAV in place -- I'll try later without it.
Some of the stuff NAV reports is bunk -- attacks from inside my house (he's PINGING FROM INSIDE THE NETWORK!!!) and sometimes it has a dislike of stuff returned by web servers. Others, though, have been reported intrusion attempts from machines that aren't internet servers, and those make me worry.
§ ita § - Apr 20, 2005 4:15:47 pm PDT #2542 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hee. Posting from the Powerbook now. I'm using Safari, but I've downloaded Opera. It's telling me to drag it into the Application folder to install.
Application folder? I've heard of that. I just have no idea where it is ... this learning curve will be fun!
Okay, found it. Now for Firefox.
Gris - Apr 20, 2005 8:31:24 pm PDT #2543 of 10003
Hey. New board.
Jesse - Apr 21, 2005 1:50:05 pm PDT #2544 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have several questions!
1) Due to being a sloppy internetter, my computer is full of crap, giving me popup ads all the freaking time. I uninstalled a couple of things I thought might have been the culprit, and ran AdAware a bunch of times, but yet it still happens. Any ideas?
2) Is there any way to get stuff off a pdf into a spreadsheet without retyping it?
3) Is there anything I need to know before I burn my first CD? (I realize I am late to the game.)
As ever, thanks in advance.
Dana - Apr 21, 2005 1:54:45 pm PDT #2545 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Jesse, you could also try installing and running Spybot. Sometimes different spyware programs are better at whacking certain bugs. You may also have something that respawns every time you reboot. You might see what AdAware catches, make a note of the name, and do some research on the 'net.
Jesse - Apr 21, 2005 1:55:34 pm PDT #2546 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ah, Spybot. Thanks -- I knew there was another one, but forgot what it was called.