On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 7:55 pm, Mark Weaver wrote:
Piero Piutti wrote:
On Monday 14 October 2002 21:08, Eric S. Dye wrote:
another good firewall program
that i use is the black ice program and of course norton sells a good one
as well. i wouldn't worry about broadcasting your I P address,
The description at leaf says, it's primarily used as a gateway/
router/firewall for Internet leaf sites. What's a leaf site?
Miark
Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith:
On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 7:55 pm, Mark Weaver wrote:
If you have a *really* old spare computer, I recommend the
At 02:55 PM 10/17/2002 -0400, you wrote:
I must heartliy disagree here. If you're going to be connected via DSL or
Cable connection the only prudent thing to do is errect a real firewall.
With the price of New PC's being in the moderate price range of 500 - 700
dollars for a fair system,
At 02:55 PM 10/17/2002 -0400, you wrote:
I must heartliy disagree here. If you're going to be connected via DSL or
Cable connection the only prudent thing to do is errect a real firewall.
With the price of New PC's being in the moderate price range of 500 - 700
dollars for a fair system,
On Thursday 17 October 2002 05:32 pm, FemmeFatale wrote:
At 02:55 PM 10/17/2002 -0400, you wrote:
I must heartliy disagree here. If you're going to be connected via DSL or
Cable connection the only prudent thing to do is errect a real firewall.
Agreed.
[snip]
heh And i'm not stupid. But my
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On Thursday 17 October 2002 11:55 am, Mark Weaver did speak unto the huddled
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old P1-90Mhz machines out there for the asking. Get hold of one and
make a real firewall. You can get a Gateway/firewall setup and
functioning well on a
At 09:22 AM 10/17/2002 -0700, you wrote:
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On Thursday 17 October 2002 11:55 am, Mark Weaver did speak unto the huddled
masses, saying:
old P1-90Mhz machines out there for the asking. Get hold of one and
make a real firewall. You can get a
Piero Piutti wrote:
On Monday 14 October 2002 21:08, Eric S. Dye wrote:
another good firewall program
that i use is the black ice program and of course norton sells a good one
as well. i wouldn't worry about broadcasting your I P address, but if you
do a lot of surfing, you should consider a
Michael Adams wrote:
Hands up all those that have had major isues trying to uninstall Bonzai
Buddy from computers when it had been inadvertently downloaded. This would
be a lot less of a problem in Linux even if the buddy came in an RPM.
heh! :) well...you could always convert the source code
Hands up all those that have had major isues trying to uninstall Bonzai
Buddy from computers when it had been inadvertently downloaded. This would
be a lot less of a problem in Linux even if the buddy came in an RPM.
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:09, E T wrote:
ever seen the bonzi buddie as parrot
, thats just something else for win users to worry about.
rgds
Frank
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ever seen the bonzi buddie as parrot
i did indeed go to the site below and my Black Ice Defender proved
completely stealthy. thank you..
eric
At 09:03 AM 10/15/2002 +, you wrote:
On Monday 14 October 2002 21:08, Eric S. Dye wrote:
another good firewall program
that i use is the black ice program and of course
Hi,
if you still think that Black Ice Defender is a good firewall have a look at
this website http://www.grc.com and see what results it had when tested.
having BID installed on your windowz machine can be even worse that having no
firewall at all (i.e. false sense of security). when you need a
On Monday October 14 2002 04:23 pm, Franki wrote:
other then that, don't worry about it, head over to grc.com and run
shields up to see
if you have anything open.. (its not a great scanner, but better then
nothing.)
Frank
Shields up is a fairly easy test to pass. The security
Roman Korcek, Tuesday 15 October 2002 11:47:
Hi,
if you still think that Black Ice Defender is a good firewall have a look
at this website http://www.grc.com and see what results it had when
tested.
having BID installed on your windowz machine can be even worse that
having no firewall
, then
perhaps the chaos you long for will ensue... :-)
rgds
Frank
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Roman Korcek, Tuesday 15
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 21:50, FemmeFatale wrote:
For windows both norton blackice bite the bikey. Plain simple. If you
want proof I Can direct you off or on list to a website.
Zonealarm is the only software firewall for Winblows i personally trust.
*Dons her tinfoil hat* :)
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Hello,
I was just surfing the internet when I got a security alert, stating
that I am broadcasting an IP address and that my PC could be getting
unwanted visitors. I was directed to the following link:
http://images.bonzi.com/fastclick/ia9b2.asp
Is this a clever way to sell some product or is
Marco,
I'm not positive what you saw, but it sounds like you got a pop-up
message from some web site trying to sell you something. An
advertisement or something. 1) I would not worry about it. 2) I would
turn off pop-up windows.
In mozilla go to Edit - Preferences, then under
Hello Marco,
Your message came from the www.bonzi.com site. They sell a program called
Internet Alert which is a great firewall program, however i don't know if
it would work with Linux. I have the Bonzi program myself, but i use it on
XP. if you want a free firewall program, you can go to
On 14 Oct 2002 22:46:04 +0200
Marco Verheul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is this a clever way to sell some product or is this for real.
If you buy this let me know, I've got a pile of stuff that I've been
trying to get rid of.
It just like the bogus security sites that say they can see the
the site is not bogus. they do have a good firewall called Internet Alert
which does in fact work. however, i doubt that it would work with Linux.
not sure though. there are places where you can test your security online.
if anyone wants to know the address, let me know.
Eric S. Dye
At
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Sent: Tuesday, 15 October 2002 4:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Security alert
Hello,
I was just surfing the internet when I got a security alert, stating
that I am broadcasting an IP address and that my PC could be getting
unwanted visitors. I
Thanks all, I got the picture. I'll stick with Jim's suggestion to
uncheck that option in Mozilla for unwanted popups and let the matter
rest.
Regards, Marco
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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On Monday 14 October 2002 1:46 pm, Marco Verheul did speak unto the huddled
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I was just surfing the internet when I got a security alert, stating
that I am broadcasting an IP address and that my PC could be getting
unwanted
On Monday 14 October 2002 01:46 pm, you wrote:
Hello,
I was just surfing the internet when I got a security alert, stating
that I am broadcasting an IP address and that my PC could be getting
unwanted visitors. I was directed to the following link:
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:23:44 -0700
Eric S. Dye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the site is not bogus. they do have a good firewall called Internet
Alert
I do not care what the product is or how good it is.
Anyone who markets their product in this manner, which is at the very
least is deceptive and
Marco Verheul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks all, I got the picture. I'll stick with Jim's suggestion to
uncheck that option in Mozilla for unwanted popups and let the matter
rest.
If you are curious, try running nmapfe. nmap is a scanning tool - it
will tell you what ports on your machine
ever seen the bonzi buddie as parrot like the paperclip in m$oriface, that
was free, but better spyware than doubleclick could buy. same folks, I would
wonder about the firewall and weither it was spyware too.
On Monday 14 October 2002 05:30 am, shane wrote:
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At 02:08 PM 10/14/2002 -0700, you wrote:
Hello Marco,
Your message came from the www.bonzi.com site. They sell a program called
Internet Alert which is a great firewall program, however i don't know if
it would work with Linux. I have the Bonzi program myself, but i use it on
XP. if you want
For windows both norton blackice bite the bikey. Plain simple. If you
want proof I Can direct you off or on list to a website.
Ooops! please do, Femme! i'm interested!
thanks IA.
Damian
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Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.(The Dalai Lama)
Want to
Enclosed are 2 attachments. They were sent to my root account by my system.
They look like trouble...can one of you "guru's" look at them and tell me why
I'm getting these messages? Thanks!
PS In the case of the ports warning, I am running pmfirewall so...
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It was Oct 6, 2000, 04:32, when Ronald J. Hall keyboarded:
Enclosed are 2 attachments. They were sent to my root account by my system.
They look like trouble...can one of you "guru's" look at them and tell me why
I'm getting these messages? Thanks!
PS In the case of the ports warning, I am
Paul wrote:
Hello Ronald,
These mails are sent to you from the automatic system that runs through
Cron. These mails are composed by your own computer. All kinds of checks
are performed, on ports, world-writeable files and what not. Results are
sent to you by mail. This is nothing to worry
"Brisco County Jr." wrote:
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2719802.html
Which I why I run Portsentry and other security watchers.
I guess we'll get a fix notice in due course.
Cheers
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