Please keep us updated with any important security info. Thanks.
mkr
At 03:59 PM 7/1/01 -0500, Len Paris wrote:
>And, if you don't want someone else to gain control of your
>computer, protection from Trojan horse Remote Access Terminal
>Server (RATS) software is also needed. BOClean is the best
>available. See www.nsclean.com for information. Also go to
>www.grc.com and read what Steve Gibson has to say.
>
>You can also go to www.zdnet.com and search on the words
>"ad aware" (without the quotes) to find the current version
>of AAW.EXE which will disable and clean up lots of the spyware
>that gets planted on your machine by commercial websites.
>
>Computer security is one of the responsibilities of my job.
>
>Len
>---
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 3:19 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Computer Security
> >
> >
> > With the increased instances of viruses and computer
> > attacks by penetrating
> > our computers, I just installed a firewall and lo and
> > behold someone from
> > Italy was trying to get into my machine connected via
> > regular dialup
> > telephone connection. And the attempt was blocked by
> > the firewall.
> > Incidentally, the ISP I was using was the target of a
> > denial of service
> > attack which drowned the system and no traffic could
> > be transmitted.
> >
> > The moral of this story is that a virus program
> > combined with a firewall is
> > necessary for all machines especially Windows
> > machines. A free firewall
> > such as Zonealarm would be quite effective.
> >
> > ___MKR___
> >
> >
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