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Virus&Worm&Fire Wall
Name: James Date: October 6, 2002 at 00:02:20 Pacific OS: Win XP Pro CPU/Ram: p2450/192mg ram
Comment:
Hi, I have been having a really bad wekk. i have been having worms,trojans and hackers. What i would like to know is i have two diffrent fire walls -Norton internet security 2002 and Zone Alarm 3 pro. Which one is better or which one should i use? Also is there any way to make sure all my viruses are gone.
your not using two firewalls at the same time are you?
not a good idea if you are
do a full system scan with your av software making sure you have an updated signature base.
there are online virus/Trojan scans use the search button at the top of this page type in online virus scans
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Response Number 2
Name: Jim Beau Date: October 6, 2002 at 11:56:18 Pacific
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As Tim mentioned,you don't want to run two software firewalls at the same time.They will conflict each other and cause problems!!You have both programs already?If so,take each firewall(one at a time) and set it up.Go to pcflank.com and do the firewall test scans.See which one does better.*Just my personal preferrence here(I have Sygate free firewall),I would go with Zone Alarm Pro.Both firewall programs that you mentioned are known to use quite a bit of resource space.I definitely would un-install one of them(ZA is a little tricky un-install sometimes).Test them and you decide.Regards.JB
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Response Number 3
Name: suzi Date: October 6, 2002 at 12:27:43 Pacific
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Make sure you have an antivirus program also as the firewalls do not protect against viruses.
Good luck.
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Response Number 4
Name: James Date: October 6, 2002 at 23:13:34 Pacific
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What virus do I have ????...
