Hi y'all - seems like Zone Alarm only works with cable/DSL connections,, as mine are mostly satellite or cell, I guess it is no use to me.
On Dec 19, 9:16 am, CrossBow <[email protected]> wrote: > Good to hear about the cleanup on IE. My workplace is kin to fort knox so I > wasn't worried until we got some really wierd hits. Zone alarm is something > another friend mentioned to me last month and going to load it up at home > this evening. Makes you less visible to marauders eh? > > do you think some of this stuff could be from China? heh heh. I hear they > are pissed because MS jacked up all the bootlegged MS apps/etc. over there > by the bazillions with software varification updates. I imagine legions > of pissed off blackmarket users thinking about revenge!!! > > beware the Chinese Sith! > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:48 PM, BC <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Dec 16, 1:34 pm, CrossBow <[email protected]> wrote: > > > We were recently hijacked by a security download from MS, but it was not > > > from MS. It was a clever little trojan. Almost took my geeping system > > apart > > > in little mobius loops! Not only did I clean it off I got paranoid and > > did > > > a system restore a while later. > > You wouldn't believe how many people's computers are infected with > > spyware, malware, viruses, trojans, etc., all because they have no > > anti-virus or anti-spyware protection installed -- and also b/c they > > choose to use IE (thus allowing a bazillion popups whilst surfing, > > half of which are likely running scripts that install shit on their > > PCs). All a Windows user really needs are anti-spyware, anti-virus, a > > firewall -- (some apps contain all of these in one package) -- regular > > Windows updates, and some fucking common sense. That's it. 99+% of > > threats thus eliminated. > > > > anyone ever hear of Zone Alarm? > > It's a decent, though bloated, firewall app. > > > BTW, the IE fix was released yesterday. > > -BC- > > -- > gnothe se auton- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Memphis Freethought Alliance" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/memphisfreethoughtalliance?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
