Yeah, I quit on ZoneAlarm myself. But I have no practical advice because I just didn't replace it. (C'mon hackers!)
Oh! I know this one! 'Slaying entails certain sacrifices, blah blah blahbity blah, I'm so stuffy, gimme a scone.'
Buffy ,'Help'
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Liese S. - Apr 30, 2007 9:20:22 am PDT #1426 of 25496
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Jon B. - Apr 30, 2007 10:11:03 am PDT #1427 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Get a router. Most have built in firewalls.
Typo Boy - Apr 30, 2007 10:24:13 am PDT #1428 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Umm have one. But you need a software firewall as well.
Jon B. - Apr 30, 2007 10:34:23 am PDT #1429 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Why?
Seriously, I'd like to know!
Typo Boy - Apr 30, 2007 11:37:48 am PDT #1430 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Because there are still tons of ways your machine can become infected. A software firewall looks at what is going on in your machine instead of just network traffic. So if you accidentally click OK, or click on a picture with an embedded worm, it can detect it and stop it. Yeah there is some overlap with antivirus; but a firewall takes a slightly different approaches and catches stuff anti-virus software might not. In short if you never practice unsafe computing, for example if you never ahem anything, then you can probably get by without a firewall. And if you don't let anybody who is less careful than you are on your computer or network. Or if you have a Mac or Linux rather than windows, then hardware alone is almost enough. But, if for any reason, you have windows, especially if you have computers networked in windows, then you do want a software firewall.
Jon B. - Apr 30, 2007 11:55:10 am PDT #1431 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
It seems to me that "anti-virus software" + "a hardware firewall" does all that, but perhaps I'm missing something.
le nubian - Apr 30, 2007 11:57:56 am PDT #1432 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I use windows firewall. It is okay for my needs. Zonealarm fucked up my machine too.
Liese S. - Apr 30, 2007 11:58:05 am PDT #1433 of 25496
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I am grumpy because my host decided to upgrade me to Plesk without telling me. I must be in the middle of migration right now, because I've got all half functionality on everything. And their tech support chat is not going right now. I really don't want to sit on the phone with someone.
§ ita § - Apr 30, 2007 2:42:42 pm PDT #1434 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm looking to upgrade from my pokey 1GB flash drive.
Any recommendations? I was thinking I wanted one with some sort of protection (biometric or password), but am skeptical of the cross-platformability.
When I bought mine, 1GB was hot shit. 4GB would be nice, 16GB...well, depends on price.
What are you guys using?
Typo Boy - Apr 30, 2007 2:53:05 pm PDT #1435 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Umm - 256 meg.
Not helping, I know.