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Vitaly
When I first went on-line to the Internet through my DSL modem, I neglected
to password protect all of the drives on our systems in the house thinking,
no one even knows I'm here. Wrong! Found lots of 'visitors' on my network
neighborhood. Since then, I've added ConSeal PC Firewall, started learning
a little more about this stuff, password protected all of the drives on all
of our systems, both read only and read-write and worked with my ISP to
identify which messages are valid and which are not.
For example, ConSeal trapped an unidentified message which I sent to my ISP
to look at. Turns out it was simply someone searching for someone to play
Quake II with. Meanwhile, just prior to my adding all of the above
protection, my Norton AV software discovered a BO on my system located in my
VB5 Professional directory. Since I run my AV daily and update my AV at
least once a week, I can usually catch this stuff before it can do any
damage.
Since I've done all of the above, when I run netstat, the only activity I
see is between my ISP and myself.
Regards
Guy
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Vitaly Larichev
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 1999 9:22 AM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: intruders
I guess many on the list, me including, once in a while would like to get
updated on the experience
of those who use shield/protection/firewall software. Seems even stand-alone
PCs may be pretty much
vulnerable to intrusions when connected to the Web. It will get only worse
as more and more popular
and not so popular sites are willing to download and run applets on user's
machine to deliver what
he/she may naively ask for without realizing potential security pitfalls.
Or, is this concern exaggerated? From time to time, newspapers print stories
about finding arcane
loopholes in browsers' security. A lot of fuss follows! But if Chicago
Tribune,for instance, chooses
(without letting me know) to download a Java applet to my PC to present its
pages the way it wants
just for my "convenient" reading (recall also lovely LIVE!Charts), why
somebody malicious cannot
monitor what I am doing on the Web, intercept the applet and substitute its
own for, say, reading my
files, including passwords or personal information? I read in PC World a
couple years ago that Java
has a built-in security manager that doesn't allow a Java applet to do
illegal acts like writing on
your PC HD or accessing a network server through a firewall. Really?
Can somebody enlighten me on this issue? Where is a real danger here? And
what kind of protection is
available now? Is "alert software" one can get is good enough to alert me,
at least, if not protect?
I am not about viruses, worms, ... which can destroy information on HDs or
impede a functionality of
a computer, but about stealing information kept on PC.
Thanks.
Cheers, Vitaly
Guy Tann wrote:
> I use ConSeal PC Firewall per a recommendation from my ISP. Glen also
uses
> it and is much more knowledgeable than I am. My ISP has worked with me,
> providing me with addresses that he uses for mail, newsgroups, etc. I'm
now
> going to attempt to add additional, device oriented controls. When
running
> alongside IA99, it picked up a lot of activity that IA99 never noticed.
> After looking at IA99's rules, it appears to me that it'll be important to
> expand IA99's port list as to which ones to block, etc.
>
> I also downloaded IA99 and will install this on my wife's laptop as she's
> not on line all day like I am.
>
> Regards
>
> Guy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Rajesh
> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 1999 11:22 PM
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: intruders
>
> Downloaded and payed for Intruder Alert. What other security would
> complement the
> intruder alert ? Or is it good as a stand alone. ?
>
> Rajesh
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