John Bartow
john at winhaven.net
Fri Oct 1 09:42:46 CDT 2004
Yep, good stuff! Here's some other free software that Francisco and others have recommended that I use in various situations: Mozilla FoxFire Browser Thunderbird Email Trillian IM Sygate Firewall FileZilla FTP IrfanView Imaging Grisoft AVG Anti-virus NoteTab Text Editor Keep 'em coming! -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John W. Colby Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 8:15 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] security (was: Child's play) Damn Francisco, that's two out of two for you. First Firefox, a great browser (thanks) and now Sygate, a very nice software firewall (thanks). I have always used Zonealarm but it is nice being able to see things. Graphs even! I always felt like I was flying blind and hoping that Zonealarm was doing what it oughta. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Francisco Tapia Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 1:22 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] security (was: Child's play) a good hardware firewall will keep any other kind of connection out, but it won't prevent software from calling home, that's what software firewalls do. I prefer Sygate to ZoneAlarm tho. On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:48:41 -0500, Drew Wutka <dbatech at wolfwares.com> wrote: > I wouldn't run Zone Alarm on top of a router firewall. That's just > silly. > > Drew > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John Bartow > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 9:43 AM > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] security (was: Child's play) > > You are correct in your assumptions! Like I said, I've never had this > issue happen to me. Doesn't mean it can't happen! > :o) > > At this point I would have uninstalled the entire suite. cleaned the > PC and reinstalled it. The most problematic NIS installation I worked > on (nothing compared to your example) was one where the owner > installed it. > > On this subject I just got off the phone with a small business client > who recently moved his office complex from Cable access to DSL (cost > wise was much better). He has been having problems with just about > everything since then. He just called and asked me to come and > straighten it out for him. He had called the DSL company support this > morning and had a tech tell him that they couldn't help him while he > was running a firewall and anti-virus program AND that these things > were totally unnecessary with their internet access because of their > security. He said the tech claimed that the router was all the > protection he needed. > > Anyone else heard this kind of advice lately?! > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Francisco > Tapia > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 12:09 PM > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Child's play > > Yes I did try to invoke "Permit All" from the Firewall configuration, > under the Programs Tab, I found IE and FireFox, I set both of them > from Automatic to Permit All, while the Firewall was invoked, there > was NO internet access. I disabled the NIS firewall and I had my > internet back, I installed Sygate Personal Firewall, reboot, and > resumed using the pc, this time I was able to get to the internet w/ > either IE or FireFox depending on their Allow/Block stataus. > > so to me NIS was a hassle... IF the program has been given "PERMIT > ALL" status for communication, I understand that to mean that the > program has FULL permissions to access the INTERNET. > > what part of that am I confusing? > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- -Francisco http://ft316db.VOTEorNOT.org _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com