Tesseract Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Apart from in January. I just havent had any problems, you people have bulls eyes painted on your ip adresses, lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 I suggest you run Adaware and do a full sweep with a decent, up-to-date virus checker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 I suggest you run Adaware and do a full sweep with a decent, up-to-date virus checker. I deleted my Adware and my Norton antivirus isnt functional anymore.But I dont have any spyware or adware because I used spybot yesterday. Im telling you I dont have any viruses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 I would put money on your PC having at least 1 uninvited guest if you use no defences of any sort. Describe your set-up. I'm betting you're behind a physical gateway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 I would put money on your PC having at least 1 uninvited guest if you use no defences of any sort. Describe your set-up. I'm betting you're behind a physical gateway? I have no clue what your talking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Is your PC plugged directly into a modem, or are you on a network? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Is your PC plugged directly into a modem, or are you on a network? Modem I have DSL from AOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Doesn't AOL bb come with a firewall and A/V? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Doesn't AOL bb come with a firewall and A/V? It comes with a firewall, which I purposly have offline, seriously offline. It causes to many complications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 If you have a direct modem connection, no firewall, and no a/v, I guarantee your PC is being port scanned constantly by worms, and I wouldn't be surprised if you've picked a good few up. What OS do you use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aommaster Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 And what firewall do they provide? Or is it one of their own-made firewalls? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 If you have a direct modem connection' date=' no firewall, and no a/v, I [b']guarantee[/b] your PC is being port scanned constantly by worms, and I wouldn't be surprised if you've picked a good few up. What OS do you use? XP professional why does thta matter?Im going to run an antivirus scan right now, and Ill show you the results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Yes the O/S matters, because some (like XP) are constantly found to have gaping great security holes. Make sure your A/V is fully updatd before you run it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 And what firewall do they provide? Or is it one of their own-made firewalls? McAfee I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Yes the O/S matters' date=' because some (like XP) are constantly found to have gaping great security holes. Make sure your A/V is fully updatd before you run it.[/quote'] Well its too late for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aommaster Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 McAfee I think. Well, i would say that he should use Zone Alarm. I use it and its quite good. Have you used it before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Yes, but I'm behind a physical gateway at the minute so I don't need a FW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Well its too late for that. Too late for what? To update your A/V? If it's not up-to-date, it will just miss a lot of problems. Last week Sophos issued about 40 new virus warnings - if you haven't updated since January you can imagine the unseen horrors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Jeez how do you people get so many viruses?I dont think you need that much protection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aommaster Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Physical Gateway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Too late for what? To update your A/V? If it's not up-to-date' date=' it will just miss a lot of problems. Last week Sophos issued about 40 new virus warnings - if you haven't updated since January you can imagine the unseen horrors.[/quote'] I just updated my Norton 2003 and I restarted, I update it once a month Sayonara... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aommaster Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Jeez how do you people get so many viruses?I dont think you need that much protection I don't really get virusses, its just the fact that I feel more comfortable that I am behind a firewall! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Jeez how do you people get so many viruses?I dont think you need that much protection. Nobody has actually said "hey I get X viruses", so I don't know what you're talking about. I don't get viruses. That's not because I don't know they're there, it's because I know how to recognise and avoid them, and if they do get on they last less than a millisecond because I am well-defended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Physical Gateway? A PC acting as a central Unix hub for a LAN, running hardware and software firewalls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 I just updated my Norton 2003 and I restarted, I update it once a month Sayonara... Then what is "too late"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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