Firewall and Computer Security

unknown wrote an interesting post today onFirewall and Computer SecurityHere’s a quick excerpt Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes. http://live.pirillo.com/ – A few friends joined me live to discuss their opinions and thoughts about Windows Vista. We discuss issues, as well as what we each feel should

unknown wrote an interesting post today onFirewall and Computer SecurityHere’s a quick excerpt Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes. http://live.pirillo.com/ – A few friends joined me live to discuss their opinions and thoughts about Windows Vista. We discuss issues, as well as what we each feel should

i’m 19 and I’ve used macs all my life,mainly because my dad is an apple fanboy.
Like chris said in the video,six years ago osX was far from what it is today ,in fact here’s what wikipedia says about 10.0 “cheetah”:
“The initial version was slow, not feature complete, and had very few applications available at the time of its launch, mostly from independent developers. Many critics suggested that while the OS was not ready for mainstream adoption, they recognized the importance of its initial launch as a base on which to improve. Simply releasing Mac OS X was received by the Macintosh community as a great accomplishment, for attempts to completely overhaul the Mac OS had been underway since 1996, and delayed by countless setbacks.”

That sounds similar to the vista situation to me,in fact many apple users were saying it was a beta and that apple knew it because they released 10.1 “puma” less than a year after cheetah came out (and it was a free upgrade), kind of like chris is saying vista is a beta and microsoft knows it because they’re releasing SP1.
But look at osX now,it’s in much better state,so i’m sure that microsoft will get its act together.
The difference,of course,is that apple couldn’t really lose any marketshare while this was happening because they had almost none,microsoft definatly has a lot to lose.

oh great,i put this comment under the wrong video,it was supposed to go under the windows discussion,very sorry about that.

Good stuff, thanks. I was a longtime user of the free ZoneAlarm user. About 6 months ago I removed it, I just used the XP firewall and the SPI hardware router/firewall, been okay so far. I of course also run AVG. ;-)

Chris
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I’ve tried the free Zone Alarm three times within the last 5 years or so. Without fail the Vector Engine creates a problem. So I use the Windows fire wall, AVG, S&D, and Linksys router firewall.

I’m done w/ Zone alarm period. Looks like I’ll give comodo a test drive. Thanks for the info.

While I had read some good things about Comdo as of late, their latest beta for Vista instantly, totally and completely hosed my Vista 32-bit laptop installation. Luckily, I had a Vista 64-bit on another partition that I could use to undo some of the damage, but it couldn’t all be undone. Yes, yes, I know all the good warnings about BETA software, but I certainly can’t give it a nice grade, now can I?

“Layers of protection like this will help keep your computer safe”

They also grind it to a screeching halt.

I’ve been running a Windows box without any real-time virus protection for years and years (I do have email scanning enabled, and I run periodic system scans when the computer is not in use; using AVG). I have never once had a virus.

The answer is just to be sensible. Don’t open email attachments with certain file extensions. Turn off the stupid “Hide extensions for known file types” Explorer “feature”. Simple things like that. It’s a bit like driving a car ; if you drive like an idiot, you deserve to crash into a brick wall.

I have always run a firewall however. Leaving Windows exposed to the Internet for 10 mins is guaranteed to get you a nice juicy virus. I use the basic Windows firewall. Nothing fancy, just stops any inbound attacks with no fuss.

Hi Chris — love your show :) CNET just did a great review of Comodo’s firewall https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1138768071914757732&postID=7546010939539340010. I hear thier new one is even better and is coming out soon.Whada’ think?

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