XP fubared

[Thrawn05]

It's always best to have both a hardware and software firewalls, and for those who have cable or some other form of "always on" internet, the prices on hardware firewalls are low enough that you have only yourself to blame if you got hacked.

I have nothing to fear, I got dial-up. Try hacking into my 10.8K connections! You'll get bored before you find my porn!

[Az]

yes, but seing that you've got more data sent than recieved is rather... unpleasant. just think of your connection all clogged.

[Urban Ranger]

When you said Norton Utilities are missing, do you mean that they don't run, or that the files were physically deleted? Is your IIS patched completely? I would first bring down IIS if you haven't done so, put another firewall up on the XP partition, run msconfig to see what's missing from startup, check see if any of your other applications files are missing, and run AVG or some anti-virus program to check for worms and trojans.

[chequita guevara]

By missing I mean they aren't running. The files seem to be there, however. Since XP isn't connecting at all to the internet, the firewall isn't an issue.

I don't know whether IIS has been patched completely. Probably not. I ran the MS program which checks to see if you have all your needed security patches, and I grabbed all of those, but I'm not sure it was looking at IIS. Windows has been downloading quite a few updates recently, does Windows Update take care of IIS?

[Urban Ranger]

Okay if the files are there, check see if you can start it by hand. As for whether IIS is covered by Windows Update, hm, good question. If you want to be on the safe side, go to MS website and check all the security patches see if you have all of them.

[H Tower]

Re: Re: Re: XP fubared

Originally posted by chegitz guevara

4: You are using Zonealarm right now, so what's the big deal. ZA has been proven better.

I'm only using it on the Win98 side, and it's only for 24 more days.

Zone Alarm expires? I've been using it for months now and its never complained to me about it

[Az]

It's the pro trial edition, not the freeware.

the home edition still rules.

[Skanky Burns]

The free version works just as well, only with less options.

[Az]

I thought it didn't protect me from stuff like spyware...

[Urban Ranger]

It stops spyware from calling home.

[Skanky Burns]

It stops the spyware stuff from reporting their finding back to whoever created them. They won't be allowed to use your connection to the internet. Of course, it won't protect you from stuff that uses already-authorised internet-using software (ie: IE).

[Dis]

you didn't download Xupiter did you?

[Skanky Burns]

Not I.
Although I did have some other stuff. Disabled, but still with bits of their code lying around. Now all gone.

[Ari Rahikkala]

Originally posted by red_jon
I'm going back to ME tommorow. Don'ty ask me why, I just feel like it.

Don't worry, if you're going "back" (implying you're using 2000 or XP now) to ME, we don't need to ask you any questions - everybody already knows you're a masochist.

[Asher]

No kidding, Ari.

I say he'll put XP back within 2 weeks...