w2k - firewall offtopic

[Justin Bennett]

her email has virus protection, she has Mcafee virus scanner, but she 
gets nailed by the network propagating viruses, like nachi, blaster, and 
such. She downloads the updates but it seems always too late. Dialup 
sucks, It's getting as bad as running adelphia without a nat router.

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



On 04/28/2004 11:03 AM, Charles H. Root, III wrote:

>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
>
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