w2k - firewall offtopic

[Charles H. Root, III]

Yikes... If Zone Alarm is too hard for her, perhaps smoke signals or
a typewriter would be more appropriate... ha ha.

I had the same situation with my mother and her damned Compaq Presario
desktop with Win98... I fixed the situation by buying her an Apple
Titanium G4 PowerBook with OS X. Give basic users Mac's... You turn
them on and they work. You can get a used iBook on eBay for a
reasonable price.

Anyway, if you need a Win based software firewall, how about BlackIce
Defender or the Norton Personal Firewall?

It doesn't sound like a firewall will fix the problem... When you say
"infected" do you mean by viruses? If she has a dial-up/PPP account I
doubt someone is hacking into her system... Sounds more like a virus
problem... Probably getting in through e-mail. A personal firewall
may not catch that... Is she running anti-virus software with
current signature files?

Good luck!

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org]On Behalf Of
Justin Bennett
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 10:36 AM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: w2k - firewall offtopic


I'm looking for a w2k firewall (software) to install on a relatives PC. 
Something that is VERY easy. Basically blocks incoming connections 
unless initiated from the PC (like NAT). Zone alarm is nice except way 
to hard for her to configure, when it asks for new services to be 
allowed to access the internet I think it will be too confusing.  I need 
something for the very BASIC user, that provides good protection. She 
had dialup and keeps getting infected when she is connected.

Any Recomendations?

Justin

-- 
Justin Bennett
Network Administrator
Dynabrade, Inc.
8989 Sheridan Dr.
Clarence, NY 14031
 


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