My computer's secure.
Posted on 12/01/2007 7:35:47 AM PST by george76
Hackers have newer methods to hack into your systems.
They are smart enough to detect security loop holes in your PC and enter through open ports,unencrypted Wi-Fi connections,malicious websites or internet servers.
It is better you check your PC periodically for invasions and protect your system to prevent pilfering and damage of data.
Detecting security loopholes.
Eliminating malicious programs.
Tracking hackers .
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tools that will rescue your PC when it is in danger.
My computer's secure.
Just out of curiosity, have you ever done a port scan on a MAC OS X ?
So are mine. Without paying either bloated company a cent.
why do they make virus scanners for osx then?
Me too - debian based ubuntu... :-)
Mine’s buttoned up tighter than my grandma’s girdle. I’m not sure how much of that is OS X, though — I have a hardware firewall built into my wireless router.
No problems here, no worries— I use Kubuntu Linux. Every once in a while I boot up to my XP drive, and I’m amazed at all of the security that I had set up, and all of the security updates that have to be done. Good riddance.
Because folks want to sell them and some folks want to buy them.
The only viruses I've seen reported in the wild on OS X are Word and Excel macro viruses. Only Microsoft could come up with the singular innovation of a cross-platform virus environment. If I got a lot of word or excel files sent to me as a matter of routine, I'd probably set something up to scan them.
The virus scanners also catch Windows viruses -- they can't run on a Mac, but a Mac user can still pass them on via uploads or mail attachments.
Lots of good tools on that page. Many of them are either Linux only, or best used with Linux. There are very few(useful) security tools that run on Windows.
But what protects our PC’s from XP???
And Microslop in general?
Have gone through major struggles ordering a new computer (Gateway fairly hefty) . . . getting Vista UNINCLUDED and XP-P included instead. COULD NOT GET them to include XP-64 as evidently they don’t offer it in their store! Sheesh. So now will have to add that cost.
Thankfully, Best Buy had a sale on RAM though I had to take a rain check on that.
Am not real impressed with XP or Microslop yet again at the moment.
Much appreciate this link and alert. Thanks big.
What are the useful tools form that site to run on Windows, besides the obvious ones like Spybot and Spyware Blaster? Thanks for any input.
Home PC security. The global warming of the tech industry.
A few of the good Windows security tools:
Cain&Abel, Netstumbler, Pwdump, nmap, ethereal(aka:wireshark not mentioned), Metasploit Framework, the sysinternal suite(not mentioned),tor, and nessus(not mentioned).
I'm sure there are many others that can be used in Windows. Those are just a few I could think of off the top of my head.
plenty of free open source virus scanners... no need to buy.
and there have been a couple non ms related viruses...
nothing major.
fwiw... I have my xp pc’s running virus scanners that are regularly updated and I have never been infected... I guess if you know what your doing, viruses are not much of an issue.
however, I do wonder why someone would pay SO much for the same Intel hardware just for OSX when you can get a “windows” pc with the same core2duo guts and put ubuntu on it....for half the price.
Marketing?
Oh, come on. I do hundreds of security updates on Linux machines every year. With a 2.6.22 kernel system I just installed there were around 70 to 80 security updates that came out within a week. The security updates are a good thing, not a bad thing, and if you aren't installing them you are vulnerable.
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