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by soogrimr

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Anybody outthere ever been hit by a hacker at home.
were you using a firewall or antivirus, maybe both?
If not what have you done to protect yourself since?
I here firewalls are just about the best protection you can get.

Funny thing though everybody seems to have one for sale or a freebie.Which one's the good one.
Lot of buzzing about Lockdown
Zone Alarm's got a free one
Black Ice Defender maybe?
Sinus wall
Winroute
Got experience drop a line tell me about your protective gear or maybe evaluations on any of the above.

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by michelm

I used AtGuard (morphed to Symantec Internet Security 1000), Conseal PC Firewall, ZoneLabs and BlackICE Defender.

All them work quite good and differ in price, ease of use and platform support.
If you are looking for a nobrainer go for either ZoneLabs ZoneAlarm or BlackICE Defender. Meanwhile I prefer Zonealarm over this two, due to its ability for ingoing and application based outgoing protection

regards Michel

by soogrimr

Thanks a whole lot,
I think zone alarm works pretty good too
'Specially being a freebie.
thx again for your advice

by michelm

I used AtGuard (morphed to Symantec Internet Security 1000), Conseal PC Firewall, ZoneLabs and BlackICE Defender.

All them work quite good and differ in price, ease of use and platform support.
If you are looking for a nobrainer go for either ZoneLabs ZoneAlarm or BlackICE Defender. Meanwhile I prefer Zonealarm over this two, due to its ability for ingoing and application based outgoing protection

regards Michel

by zuidema

Firewalls are not the best protection. Its an good protection and you probably should use one of the personal firewalls out there.. But the best protection is :
- beeing extremly Paranoid
- keeping track of all security sites to
see if there are security leaks in
software you use..

At home I have my network behind a Linux Firewall and have some scanners running and there where days that i got about 50 scans to my system to see if i had an known vulnerability or some trojan running..
Be warned..!

by soogrimr

thankyou,
I understand your concerns and really appreciate the serious warning that comes across clearly in it.
Will do my best.
Thx again

by tshepoc

many people suggest that separating data from applications is the way to go. Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attarchent Storage (NAS)somehow supports this principle. However, this seem to be too theoretical, what do you guys in the trade recommend??

by jfarmer

Speaking of firewall's guy's, what is all your recomendations of what the best personal firewall for home systems protection theses days? O/S's - Windows 9X, NT,and 2k.

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