computer security!

hi folks!

i've been surfing around for a while now; and really the best site i've seen, in matters of IP-adresses, Internet-security a.s.o. is by far this one.

really, i wonder why and how long jim is going to do this just for the fun of it, not to say for OUR benefit.

he is even kind enough to answer questions from users who obviously tend to hide whatever they can (just wondering why)!

i've been searching in this forum and found nothing (so far) which really is basic to me. lots of users prefer to surf anonymously, than really protect themselves. they care about firewalls, IP-protection, a.s.o. but has anyone ever heard about prophylaxis?

i'm talking about programms which are supposed to protect you. and so i want to tell you about my experience with these programms called "antivirus":

since i'm working with PCs since about 22 years now, i tend to say that i had lots of opportunities to test some, but don't worry, i'm not going to bore you with too much details and so i will just try to amuse you with the last 5 years.

i started (as most of us) with McAffee. one day one of my PCs showed a strange behaviour and i was curious enough to install Norton Antivirus. this new fellow all over sudden discovered 12 trojan horses which McAffee didn't even see. so the choice was made. off we go with norton.

a very big disadvantage is that this fellow slows down the machines a lot; so i tested BitDefender. you can imagine how surprised i was, seeing, that my new pal discovered 3 viruses and 5 trojan horses, which norton lived very well with.

a good friend of mine finally gave me an adress for an antivirus, which i tested right-away. it was easy since this new programm offered a full fonctional evaluation-version for 30 days. i was disgusted to realize that my Bitdefender has also been fooled by (believe it or not) 12 viruses and 5 trojan horses.
i observed that this new program was very discrete, didn't bother my CPU and sometimes, up to 5 times a day he updated himself automatically (i was still in evaluation period).

i've been working with this program now since 4 years and never ever had any problems. of course i meanwhile have a licenced version. The programm i'm talking about is NOD32 from ESET. if anyone is interested here's the adress: nod32 . com

by the way: meanwhile i've turned off any firewalls and stuff like that, since my new (best) pal takes care of everything.

so folks, instead of talking and caring about therapies and hiding stuff, first of all take care of prophylaxis and prevention. i should not forget to mention that kapersky also has a very good reputation.

best regards

hi

i've read your post and i found it very interesting. i'm not going to raise any objection about your explanations, i just want to add some ideas on how to secure the system with restricted resources (i.e. cash and hardware ).

my current system is an old age toshiba satellite with intel P2 233mhz, 64mb memory and 4 GB harddisk. my current os is win 98se (i've installed the unofficial service pack 2.1 for this os) since i can no longer use win xp (my xp has left me, along with my old 1GHz toshiba satellite )

for the people with limited cash and hardware specs like me, i need to dance with carefull steps, lest i'll crashed down my system or even worse my pocket .

most of my sofwares are freewares, and you know the risk attributed to freewares. but don't worry, we got so many people arround the world who are eager to help us ini securing our system for free. my methods in doing this are :

1. Using the least resource utilization free anti virus software (i only have 64mb of memory), but the av must have a good protection level against viruses, and i found that clam av doing the job very well (it works passively, we only need to TURN OFF the autorun for cd and flashdrive, and scan them manually)

2. Using the tiniest possible (but still with reasonable level of control and protection) free firewall program, and i found that tpc (tiny personal firewall) is a good bet for this (you can download this from oldversion.com)

3. Sending every freeware i've downloaded from suspicious sites to the online free virus scanning service (the people at clam av or comodo or other sites can do this)

4. As for anonimous surfing, i only use proxo with default configuration (we don't realy need to modify the config). well, not realy anonimous, but at least we don't spill out too much information

that way my good old toshiba with win98se can run smoothly and (up till now) safely.

best regards

Hi I just registered here so hi all.

I need advise, for several weeks i have problem with my pc sort of
i am connected on drytek vigor with other 2 pcs. And when is one of this pc`s turned on I have all the time incoming connection via lan from that pc also my pc wants to connect on it. It dont matter if i allow it or deny it still pops in. I thought its virus so i runned avast full scan and it was clean. So i installed spybot he found some minor tracking cookies which were deleted but nothing serious. but it continued so i installed ad aware in hope it will clean it whole he found something and deleted it and now its everyhting clean with this 3 softs, but nothing changed. we runned same checks on other pc aswell and cleaned everything and we have still same problem.it looks like that it tries to go via different ports usualy range is from 1000 to 2000. I am using kerio firewall.
And I am really getting lost what it can be. Can someone point me what it can happen?

i wanted to create thread but i had some error so i put it here sry for messing in others threads

hi juice_man

looks like your pc got some kind of trojan. You will need to run wireshark to see what programs are using your connection. Try to download wireshark and run it. Then you can have wireshark to save a report. You can send the report to Jim so he can analyse it and give you the solutions.
i hope this can help you a bit

best regards