Posted on 01/06/2002 2:22:37 PM PST by CommiesOut
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:16:29 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Like thousands of other music lovers, Scott Hurring recently downloaded a Napster-like music file-sharing program called Grokster to test drive for chasing tunes. A programmer at advertising services agency Graphic Type and a Net veteran, Hurring disliked the program and uninstalled it. Or so he thought.
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Zone Alarm it is.
Frequent updates of virus definitions are required! The bad guys are persistent. A great source for security is grc.com this guy is the best geek in the world.
This could allow the use of your machine by an unknown perpetrator to attack other machines such as a DOS attack. I could just see the Feds showing up at a door; "Sir why did you attack this other web site?" etc.
Here are the software packages I run in real-time. These wont keep you completely secure but they certainly are better than nothing:
Spyblocker
http://www.morelerbe.com/spyblocker
Zone Alarm
http://www.zonelabs.com/
Tauscan
http://www.agnitum.com/
Trojan Hunter Guard
http://www.mischel.dhs.org/trojanhunter.asp
Analog-X Script Defender
< http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/sdefend.htm
These are the programs I run occasionally to insure my system is clean:
Ad-Aware
http://www.spychecker.com/download.html
TS-3 Trojan detector and remover
http://tds.diamondcs.com.au/
Any good virus checker and remover such as Norton.
This is a Web site that will give you more information than you ever thought possible about computer security:
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