WinXp has a built in Firewall from Microsoft, if you don't have it
enabled Windows will carp at you to either install a different firewall
or start the built in firewall. The built in firewall is pretty crappy
but it's better than nothing, I guess. Trend Titatium, I don't know for
sure, probably has a software firewall that was installed when you set
up internet security.
On 4/8/2014 10:10 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
I searched my C: drive and found a file called firewall.cpl in the
i386 folder.
Is that telling me I have a hardware firewall?
Trend Titatium does say it is "internet security" so I guess that
means it isn't a hardware firewall.
I've ahd it a few years and have no viri problems - once it
found something to quarantine.
my email is all text based and I'm very good at recognizing
phishing emails.
so what is a secure site for downloading one of those hardware firewall
things if "firewal.cpl" isn't telling me it isn't that :-) ?
Keep it simple - I'm a hardware idiot.
ann
On 4/7/2014 20:45, Gerrit Visser wrote:
All excellent advice except that today's threats are mostly coming via
phishing. If you watch what you download/install and sites that you
visit
you will be better off.
OTOH, with XP not getting more updates it will become a target again.
400
million potential victims is hard to pass up.
Gerrit
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Subject: Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing
Ann Sanfedele wrote:
I have a feeling the threats from Windoze that their lack of support
will result in all of us die-hard Xp users getting hacked to death at
the stroke of midnight is a bit overstated, or to put it another way, B
S. Given one has one's own virus protection and spam-blocker, that is.
Anyone else have more educated opinions than mine? I SO don't want to
give up XP...
Keep an updated anti-virus and software firewall (ZoneAlarm, for
example) and make sure you're connected through a *hardware* firewall
for
your personal broadband connection. A cheap router (even if you are only
connecting a single computer) will do the trick.
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