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aliEnRIK

KALASNO wrote: »

Its Ok thanks been a user for years and it still beats many firewalls hands down on shields up

And PC Tools firewall fails GRC.

Ok doki


http://www.matousec.com/projects/firewall-challenge/results.php

KALASNO

07-2008 bit old aint it ?

aliEnRIK

KALASNO wrote: »

07-2008 bit old aint it ?

yeah I know. Sorry

They only updated PCTools a week or 2 ago. WHEN did they last update Sygate to plug its holes?

Conor_3

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Avast does most, noscript does the rest
define 'drive by exploits'

Firefox 3.05 fixed 3 in Firefox. Basically, you could visit a website and injected code would allow a file to be placed on a computer and then executed. In short, you could be infected merely by visiting a site. As it wasn't done by a script, noscripts doesn't protect you.

Re-directs are quite bad. NOD32 has blocked a few where sites have tried to redirect to yahoo-analytics.net and google-analytics.net which, whilst they appear legitimate as yahoo/google-analytics.com exist , are actually sites which try to load 5 sets of malware onto a PC.

Conor_3

Deleted_User wrote: »

As I've said before, if you have good e-mail habits e.g. don't open unknown messages,

Do you have the preview pane open in your email client?

Conor_3

KALASNO wrote: »

Well I use AVG, have Malwarebytes and use Sygate firewall, but most importantly I control my browsing habits and dont visit any unknown sites

You don't need to. With the current raft of MS SQL and MySQL exploits, enough legitimate sites have been compromised that you don't have to be visiting dodgy pr0n or warez sites to get caught out.

aliEnRIK

Conor wrote: »

Firefox 3.05 fixed 3 in Firefox. Basically, you could visit a website and injected code would allow a file to be placed on a computer and then executed. In short, you could be infected merely by visiting a site. As it wasn't done by a script, noscripts doesn't protect you.

Re-directs are quite bad. NOD32 has blocked a few where sites have tried to redirect to yahoo-analytics.net and google-analytics.net which, whilst they appear legitimate as yahoo/google-analytics.com exist , are actually sites which try to load 5 sets of malware onto a PC.

This might seem an odd thing to ask. But can you point me to a webpage that does that? Its just ive been on countless known 'dodgy' pages and never once has noscript let me down.
Noscript certainly stops redirects too.

[Deleted User]

Conor wrote: »

Do you have the preview pane open in your email client?

Webmail

KALASNO

aliEnRIK wrote: »

yeah I know. Sorry

They only updated PCTools a week or 2 ago. WHEN did they last update Sygate to plug its holes?

What holes? It still passes all known tests with flying colours.

And as said PC Tools still fails GRC.

aliEnRIK

ALL known tests? it doesnt (try google!)

Also, Whilst PCTOOLS does infact fail GRCs test, its only on the PING. It doesnt actually 'let anything through' (In fact EVERY port is stealthed)