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Neil Smalley 14 June 2000 06:54 PM

I know a fair amount of you guys/gals are IT
Bods and spend forever on the net. I've just found an awesome firewall/internet security program. Since I'm getting my cable modem
tommorow I thought I'd better lock my PC down.

It's totally free for personal use and can be found at

AndrewP 14 June 2000 09:11 PM

Picked it up about a month ago new. Very impressed - it's certainly an eye opener how often it flags up potential hackers.

A

simes 14 June 2000 11:10 PM

Tried it out and it reported my PC to be "unusually secure for a Windows PC", which is nice, but odd cos I've taken no steps whatsoever to secure it.

It's a Dell and came with W98 installed, maybe they know what they're doing?

boomer 14 June 2000 11:21 PM

.. but being a bit cynical, isn't this the perfect way to introduce a "Trojan Horse"?

mb

robman 15 June 2000 07:13 PM

Can anyone remember the address of the web site that checks all the ports on your machine to see which are open for hackers?

AndrewP 15 June 2000 08:22 PM

It's at the top of this thread,


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