QUOTE(TheCourtJester @ Aug 19 2005, 12:37 AM)
Ad-Aware, Mozilla Firefox, AVG ANti-Virus, Linksys hardware router/firewall, 256-bit WEP and no broadcast SSID, and Sygate personal.
I "discovered" (aka hacked,) four of my neighbors WEP enabled wireless networks in less than 10 minutes. I could have very easily bridged their networks into mine and used their bandwidth, but chose to of course, let them know how sh1tty wep is.
WIRELESS SECURITY:
1) Use WPA instead of WEP (it can easily be hacked as well, but is definetly more secure and will turn some hackers off.)
2) use MAC address filtering, simply put, find your mac address of all the machines you know will use the wireless network and add them to the routers whitelist.
3) Limit the amount of IP's the router will issue, make this number equal the number of computers in yoru house (note, if a hacker gets through the router will give him an IP from one of the existing computers, if that computer can no longer be issued an IP address, then you know you've got a hacker.)
4) If you're truly paranoid, do what intel does and lock network resources to authenticated domain users via VPN. This requires you have a good router, or the Linksys WRT54g which has extensible firmware options.
QUOTE(Merlin @ Aug 19 2005, 03:56 AM)
Its true actually, Mozilla Firefox, the anti-anything. I go to a site with IE, boom boom boom viruses. Firefox, pffft nothing. I'm suprised at how well Microsofts AntiSpyware Beta actually works.
I agree whole heartedly. I'm actually very proud of how Microsoft built and maintiains anti-spyware, small memory footprint, my dad has it installed and he hasn't had any problems. Of course, he uses Firefox, and as you said, Firefox will remove the pathway most viruses take to infiltrate your computers.
QUOTE(randb @ Aug 19 2005, 07:11 AM)
Steve you really should be running some sort of anti-virus software. Try AVG they have a free version.
http://www.download....4-10342876.html
http://www.download....4-10342876.html
Most people are turned off by AV's because of their constant nagging and large memory footprint, norton takes up so much memory compared to alternatives. Steve, there are smaller, lesser known AV's that take up less memory and less system resources (most use them while your computer is idle.)
QUOTE(bishmasterb @ Aug 19 2005, 08:03 AM)
While I wouldn't recommend it, I ran my primary computer for nearly a year without any AV at all. Just kept up to date with MS patches, used Firefox instead of IE and of course never opened email that looked suspicious or was unexpected. No problems.
Yup Yup... Firefox is all one needs.
