Anyone else get this BULLS*** - Page 2

awd, this happens to you everyday?? i'm only using mcafee firewall and it's outdated, got any recommendations for a better one?

Not everyday. Just the last few. FTR, since I got a router witha firewall included, I no longer have the 100-300 probes I used to experience each day. With the BlackIce I run, as well, I'm behind two firewalls now.

Any firewall can be a good one BUT you hafta keep your license current, and update it periodically (every f/w I know of has a buton to click that will update it at the company's website. Some of teh better ones have the capacity to be set up for automatic updates at preset intervals.

If your McAffee is outdated I'd say your best first step would be to check to see if your license is current. Not familiar with McAffee but I'm almost certain if you were to click on the drop-down menus, one of them almost HAS to have a choice for "update." A thought just occured... Is your McAffee the firewall, or your Anti-virus?

BlackIce runs something like $40.00/year for a license. One of teh things I like about it is that it's not that well known, so it's not prone to being a subject of concentrated attention like some of the more popular F/W's. If you run a search on google or any of teh other search engines you can find several well-thought-out free F/W's. One that does recieve many good reviews is one call "Tiny Personal." Not a personal endorsement, just pasing on what I've read.

You could run down to your local grocery store a pick up a copy of MaximumPC magazine. It ALWAYS comes with a CD that includes recommended software/shareware/freeware and game demos (PC, not platform games). In fact, make ya a deal ya caint refuse... If you (or anybody else who's interested and reading these words) PM me ur addy I'll burn you a copy of their latest and snailmail it to you free of charge.

FTR, I work in the IT industry, so InfoSec (information security) is both my profession and my hobby. My *new* position as a Security Analyst will allow me to expand my knowledge base and gain a few certs along the way (wish me luck you clods!!!).

NEway, this turned out longer than I expected it to.
Peas...

i be hanging out with my homes scrooge mcDuck. we trade stories of catching some big waves on our loot piles. all the expense of others. woo hoo

yea, i have last year's firewall from mcafee....it keeps reminding me to update, but it wants me to buy the new version....have you heard anything about the Zone Alarm free firewall?

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ORIGINAL: SamJamaica

i be hanging out with my homes scrooge mcDuck. we trade stories of catching some big waves on our loot piles. all the expense of others. woo hoo

LOL!!

We run Z/A at work as our "enterprise solution" (has nothing to do with Star Trek, FTR. means we use it across the board). From what I hear it one of the best of the free ones. It is a popular platform, however, so it tends to attract a LOT of attention from crackers trying to defeat it. The cost of being good, I suppose. Occassionally some geek succeeds, so you'd be smart to update it weekly, at the least.

Z/A works best of you're somewhat familiar F/W's, but it's still able to fully protect you if you know absoutely NOTHING about what you're doing. One caveat ALWAYS applies, though. You get what you pay for. As good as their free version is, the pay-for version is still better (again, the more you understand F/W's, the better it performs, IMHO).

One last piece of advice... If you make ANY purchases over the web using a credit card you'd BETTER be running the pay-for version. For that matter, you'd be even smarter if you used a visa or M/C check card, so you can limit your liability should the vendors site be hacked. It's what I do.

Dont do it man, its the biggest scam ever. yeah easy 5 mill my A$$. then he asks you to go to africa to do the tranfer then asks for money, then you get cornered and your either dead or your moneys taken.

This particular scam is more than two decades old. First time I saw it my Gramma got a letter in the mail, back in the 70's. It's been around. It keeps coming back b/c people keep fallin for it. If they din't it wudn't keep coming bak.

lots of stupid americans lose all their reasoning capabilities the second they see the words "millions" and "dollars"....honestly, if you're stupid enough, and greedy enough to fall for something like this.......................oh well, boo hoo....