Internet Security and Saving

zemoney

For effective spam filtering you can use K9 from http://www.keir.net/k9.html for POP3 accounts in Outlook Express or SpamBayes from http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/ for full MS Outlook.

Both statistically analyse incoming messages for similarity to your identified ham and spam messages. This is far more effective than the "rules" approach taken by MailWasher. Takes a week or two to train them but after that the results are amazing. I have an e-mail address that has been kicking around for five years so I get all spam known to man and they rarely miss.

Best of all, they are both completely free

System

How I wish I'd seen this before subscribing to Broadband last month! My firewall on Windows XP is rubbish and now my computer is infected! I'm at screaming pitch with it. >:(

debeast

How I wish I'd seen this before subscribing to Broadband last month! My firewall on Windows XP is rubbish and now my computer is infected! I'm at screaming pitch with it. >:(

just use the post now

Between them they will totally clear up your computer and protect you from future attacks.

Just remember to keep them up to date ::)

Feel Free to PM me with any specific queries

save4u

Terrific post Debeast

I have downloaded those files you suggest (already had Grisoft - excellent!).

How do I set about maintaining them with the latest updates?

You get my vote for post of the month ;D

lunablanca

Hi all great post, have installed Kerio and Spybot successfully but having trouble with Grisoft. tried opening direct, saving to desktop and running from there. Both ways I click SETUP and get this message

C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\S32EVNT1.DLL. An installable Virtual Device Driver failed Dll initialization. ???

Thus forcing me to close the application, I have searched my c drive and found S32EVNT1.DLL in C:\WINX\system32

Can anybody help me please??????

Luna

debeast

Terrific post Debeast

I have downloaded those files you suggest (already had Grisoft - excellent!).

How do I set about maintaining them with the latest updates?

You get my vote for post of the month ;D

You keep em up to date by just running there webupdate functions just set aside 1/2 an hour every fortnite to do them.

With grisoft and kerio you can set them to update by themselves. But spybot and adaware i think you have to manually do.


As for the error with C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\S32EVNT1.DLL have you uninstalled your previous virus checker first? If you want specific help them post full system software specs.

Lady_K

Hi

I originally posted this on the 'check your machines thread in the techie bit but so far no replies so does anyone else have any comments/suggestions on this...

I have Norton Antivirus pro 2003, spybot, ad-aware and ZoneAlarm free version. I run them regular. I went to the Norton free security check here http://www.symantec.com/region/reg_eu/product/nis_index.html
and this shows me to have 3 open ports(all the others stealth) and one trojan horse vulnerability. This is just the security part I checked... I got worried so I checked the ports they stated as open in the 'Shields Up' site mentioned here hoping that they would advise me on how to deal with it and they all came out Stealth... mmm What do you think?

debeast

Hi

I originally posted this on the 'check your machines thread in the techie bit but so far no replies so does anyone else have any comments/suggestions on this...

I have Norton Antivirus pro 2003, spybot, ad-aware and ZoneAlarm free version. I run them regular. I went to the Norton free security check here http://www.symantec.com/region/reg_eu/product/nis_index.html
and this shows me to have 3 open ports(all the others stealth) and one trojan horse vulnerability. This is just the security part I checked... I got worried so I checked the ports they stated as open in the 'Shields Up' site mentioned here hoping that they would advise me on how to deal with it and they all came out Stealth... mmm What do you think?

try using a diff firewall such as kerio or sygate they are both v good at hiding ports

Lady_K

What I really meant was the difference that norton checker said the ports were open and when I tested them all individually on the shields up site they came out stealth. Everything else was all stealth and well covered... not sure I'd want to change my firewall really although I would consider it. I just dont understand the contrast in the two checkers, a complete contrast. Could it be Norton trying to get me to upgrade? I'm on norton av 2003 professional

debeast

What I really meant was the difference that norton checker said the ports were open and when I tested them all individually on the shields up site they came out stealth. Everything else was all stealth and well covered... not sure I'd want to change my firewall really although I would consider it. I just dont understand the contrast in the two checkers, a complete contrast. Could it be Norton trying to get me to upgrade? I'm on norton av 2003 professional

Without knowing exactly how both pages scripts are checking your ports it's hard to answer this question. It could be either of the scripts misreporting your ports.

Try a 3rd site to analyse your comp (sorry i don't know any but try google) and if it says ports are stealthed then don't worry