Dave, I feel your pain. I regularly invest a fair bit of time installing patches, checking configuration, logs etc. to make sure I'm running a tight ship... So far, so good - I hope!
I run a small home network with LINUX and Windows 2000 machines. I sit behind a Cisco router and a Linysys box (both firewalling and NAT'ing) and I run ZoneAlarm on my Windows boxes. ZoneAlarm is a fantastic piece of software, not because it stops things from getting IN (the routers do that), but because it stops rogue/unwanted/spy-ware) from getting OUT. It really gives you peace of mind to know exactly what processes can open outgoing sockets and listening (server) sockets on your machine. ZoneAlarm will also monitor all incoming email and block all the common viruses, strip executable content etc. I have also run Ad-aware once or twice which seemed pretty nice. We are all sys-admins now... welcome to the future. Sincerely, Daniel Selman -----Original Message----- From: Discussion list for Java 3D API [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Yazel, David J. Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 1:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Off-topic: Virus proliferation The amount of virus laden e-mails hitting my accounts has increased dramatically over the last month. I get EXE files and PIF files 1-3 times a day with subjects like "Here is the IE 6.0 patch you requested" or "Included is my resume". I am beginning to feel very besieged sitting here behind my fire wall, anti-virus software and message filtering software. And recently "adware" was insinuated itself into my operating system and I have been unable to successfully remove it, I have no idea how this managed to get past my anti-virus software. And apparently it is all legal and everything. The ad-ware companies don't have to remove their software, and they can beam transmissions of info from your computer back to their servers. Anyway, I just wanted to vent a little bit and see if anyone feels the same way I do. Dave =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
