I have a personal firewall on my system, less of fear that someone might try to come in, but that something might try to phone home.
For example, a couple of weeks ago I installed a friend's OCR software for testing and it installed a TSR along with it: even when the OCR program wasn't running, the freaking thing tried to contact its makers. The firewall also quarantines any suspicious mail attachments, but as mail client I use good ole' Navigator 4.54 anyway. Some of those attachments aim for weaknesses in OE, and my Navigator is simply too old to understand all that fancy stuff. A program I can wholeheartedly reccommend in this context is Robin Keir's K9, that uses a Bayes algorithm to weed out spam (and things like the "important update from Microsoft" alongs with it): http://www.keir.net/k9.html BTW, the hottest issue regarding those little malicious buggers around here in Germany were and are "dialers" - trojans that replace your normal internet connection without your knowledge with 0190 numbers (for you Americans: 1-900 numbers). For dial-up users this generated some hefty bills. The billing's done by the phone companies who own the lines and so they send all their might and lawyers after you, if you don't pay. They don't do that out of any unselfishness either, as a certain percentage of the generated income goes to them for providing the line. It has been until now that a higher court here in Germany decided that a user fooled that way must not pay and that the phone company cannot ask for more than what would have been generated through use of the normal internet connection. Is the rest of the world as ridden by those "dialers" as we are around here? Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > I had a LOT of spyware on my computer as I've been using same > drive/programs for a long time (like close to 100 spybots). If you'd > like to check these sites are free (scan and REMOVE, many ask you to > pay to remove). If anyone runs I'd be interested in hearing results > (see if anyone has more than I did). I run both as spyware items are > hard coded it seems, one might find some the other misses. > > http://www.safer-networking.org/ > http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ > > Tom > > Visit my web page for many games for sale/trade and screen shots of > Ultima Escape from Mt. Drash, Tom's Ultima, Infocom and RPG page ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
