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werewolf_02
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Joined: 27 Jul 2003
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Which is the best firewall and virus scanner to use?
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BJ_M
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Joined: 30 Jul 2002
Location: Canada
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best ? unhook your network connection ...
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Will Hay
Lest we forget
Joined: 28 Oct 2002
Location: Buggleskelly Railway St.
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A recommendation would be Norton.
Will
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stiltman
Hi Ladies
Joined: 10 Jul 2003
Location: Unleashed
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BJ_M
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Joined: 30 Jul 2002
Location: Canada
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| stiltman wrote: |
| werewolf_02 wrote: |
| Which is the best firewall and virus scanner to use? |
A nokia box running Check Point's Firewall 1 and McAfee |
yea -- i have to second that as being second best (after unhooking everthing)
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holistic
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Joined: 22 May 2001
Location: here & there
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| Will Hay wrote: |
A recommendation would be Norton.
Will |
What are you Will a masochist?? 
Norton ?!. geeesch  
FIREWALL
Zonealarm - Free and not a resource hog.
ANTIVIRUS
AVG - FREE and works great
...also online there is ...http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
As BJ_M stated no connection is a good connection .. hehe
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BJ_M
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Joined: 30 Jul 2002
Location: Canada
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Norton is a good suggestion as then your machine will not run and you will get no virus or hacking ...
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pacmania_2001
mmm...bop
Joined: 04 Apr 2001
Location: Australia
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lordsmurf
Video Restorer
Joined: 10 Jun 2003
Location: Want my advice? PM me.
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I've used Norton products since 1994 and have never had problems with anything (and I was smart enough to never install Crash Guard when it existed).
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808smokey
Yoda
Joined: 11 Aug 2003
Location: Fiji
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Norton Antivirus Corporate and Zone Alarm both are free 
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BJ_M Posted: Nov 03, 2003 10:44
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Norton is a good suggestion as then your machine will not run and you will get no virus or hacking ...
best ? unhook your network connection ... |
How does that help?? Why even answer with smart @$$ remarks.
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BJ_M
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Location: Canada
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| 808smokey wrote: |
Norton Antivirus Corporate and Zone Alarm both are free :wink:
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BJ_M Posted: Nov 03, 2003 10:44
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Norton is a good suggestion as then your machine will not run and you will get no virus or hacking ...
best ? unhook your network connection ... |
How does that help?? Why even answer with smart @$$ remarks. |
Norton Antivirus Corporate is far from free. Unless you are a thief.
http://nct.symantecstore.com/0001/mup_corporate.html
And why i answered about norton ? because on countless forums , and in many corporate systems - all norton products are either banned, removed upon discovery , or warrenty (or in the case of some products) is void if you are using some of the products they (norton) have (doesnt only go for norton products either)...
it seems to be a well known fact so don't be so snotty about it please in your remarks - wasn't it you who keeps wanting to argue about nonsense (like your statement that dvd's are not mpeg2) ..
I was trying to inject a little humour -- thats all , most mature people would be able to understand that.
the questions get asked here a lot "what is the BEST........(fill in blank)"
well we all (most of us) like to try to help out such questions -- but in many cases (more often than not) , they can not be answered as asked..
it happens OVER AND OVER ...
and of course -- you will get many different opinions also ...
but the question was "BEST" , i answered truthfully , the BEST method ..
the question should have been what is the best personal firewall for free or low cost and suggestion of a good antivirus .. or where can i go to get more information...
and a quick search on google turns up 300 sites with reviews on personal firewall and 1000 sites with reviews on antivirus ...
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Will Hay
Lest we forget
Joined: 28 Oct 2002
Location: Buggleskelly Railway St.
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| BJ_M wrote: |
| Norton is a good suggestion as then your machine will not run and you will get no virus or hacking ... |
Hmm, and there was me thinking moderator's had excluded themselves from making such posts 
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| ...was trying to inject a little humour |
This is where the emoticon comes in, to reflect your mood and divert possible degeneration of threads.
But wait, Will Hay has forgotten to include an emoticon himself.
Shit.
Busted.
W.
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Will Hay
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BJ_M
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Location: Canada
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ok Will --- i DID miss putting a icon in there to represent something or other ..
i think i got all bases covered with this one :
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808smokey
Yoda
Joined: 11 Aug 2003
Location: Fiji
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I'm not a theif, if you work for the government then Norton is a free download.
Also, just wondering what antivirus or firewall do you guys prefer instead of Nortons products. Every place I've ever worked had Norton Corporate installed on there computers. I'm sure there is something better or more reliable than Norton but every time you do a search it always comes up the "best". I currently use Norton Corpate V7.60 but I was going to give Norton 2004 a try. But since some of you think Norton isn't all that it's cracked up to be I'm open for suggestions on better software. Opinions??
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| it seems to be a well known fact so don't be so snotty about it please in your remarks - wasn't it you who keeps wanting to argue about nonsense (like your statement that dvd's are not mpeg2) .. |
BJ_M Everytime I read your posts they seem a little condescending, not very helpful or rude, besides it's so easy to get you fired up
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bugster
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Joined: 30 Jan 2002
Location: UK
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I'm not a theif, if you work for the government then Norton is a free download.
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Which government? There are quite a few in this world 
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808smokey
Yoda
Joined: 11 Aug 2003
Location: Fiji
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U.S. Military. It's a free download for anyone who has access to authorized DOD sites/server. So if your sending something via your home computer to a DOD server you reduce the chance of sending a virus and corrupting the system. Your allowed to put it on your home computer so it's "free" otherwise they (the DOD) would have to give you your own computer with a "paid" license on it. At least that's my understanding of it. I'm sure the government paid some licensing fee somewhere at some time. But as for me, I don't care it's "free" I didn't have to pay for it. 
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BJ_M
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Location: Canada
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you would think that the DOD would not be running thier email servers on windows and that they would "clean" email ... but i could see that it would be an issue (as for any large corporation), plus of course - some if it is encrypted ...
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808smokey
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Joined: 11 Aug 2003
Location: Fiji
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They use WindowsNT and Microsoft Outlook at least for the End user, the rest is all unix. It's the easiest for people to use that has "security" (login name) so the internet nazi's (LAN shop) can watch everything you do. They actually banned people from gong to ebay.com. Even when you could log in remotely you could only go to certain folders files that are virtually seperated from the rest of the Unclass net. People try to hack them at least a hundred times a day. That actually got rid of off-site remote access to minimize the chances of someone hacking a persons simple login name and password like your dog's name or wifes birthday. I got my norton thru them but when they turned off remote access we still have norton. It's not like they're going to go to each persons house (hundreds if not thousands) and stand there and watch you uninstall it or charge you $49.95 to keep it, ya know
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Will Hay
Lest we forget
Joined: 28 Oct 2002
Location: Buggleskelly Railway St.
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AVG and ZoneAlarm just installed
Will
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tgpo
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Joined: 15 Feb 2002
Location: The South Side
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| 808smokey wrote: |
| BJ_M Everytime I read your posts they seem a little condescending |
Because they can be. He knows everything
.....and is gonna give me one of his HD camera for saying that, right? 
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BJ_M
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