Computer security?

[KarthXLR]

I get McAfee for free.

[ainmosni]

[quote author=Ceceil Felias link=topic=993.msg25758#msg25758 date=1217309313]
Heck, even before I was behind a proper router, I had no real virus concerns. :B

It's not a proper router unless it's running an IOS.
And does stateful checking...
[/quote]

It running pf makes it quite a decent router though... I find Cisco a bit overkill for home and I don't really like the acl syntax either.

[zaneyard]

[quote author=HeK link=topic=993.msg25967#msg25967 date=1217375513]
[quote author=Ceceil Felias link=topic=993.msg25758#msg25758 date=1217309313]
Heck, even before I was behind a proper router, I had no real virus concerns. :B

It's not a proper router unless it's running an IOS.
And does stateful checking...
[/quote]

It running pf makes it quite a decent router though... I find Cisco a bit overkill for home and I don't really like the acl syntax either.
[/quote]
the cisco IOS is a bit over kill for home users, my linksys home router is just fine atm.

[ainmosni]

[quote author=ainmosni link=topic=993.msg26103#msg26103 date=1217402043]
[quote author=HeK link=topic=993.msg25967#msg25967 date=1217375513]
[quote author=Ceceil Felias link=topic=993.msg25758#msg25758 date=1217309313]
Heck, even before I was behind a proper router, I had no real virus concerns. :B

It's not a proper router unless it's running an IOS.
And does stateful checking...
[/quote]

It running pf makes it quite a decent router though... I find Cisco a bit overkill for home and I don't really like the acl syntax either.
[/quote]
the cisco IOS is a bit over kill for home users, my linksys home router is just fine atm.
[/quote]

I prefer a cheap and silent PC with OpenBSD myself, great firewall/routing software in that little OS...

[zaneyard]

[quote author=zaneyard link=topic=993.msg26169#msg26169 date=1217435151]
[quote author=ainmosni link=topic=993.msg26103#msg26103 date=1217402043]
[quote author=HeK link=topic=993.msg25967#msg25967 date=1217375513]
[quote author=Ceceil Felias link=topic=993.msg25758#msg25758 date=1217309313]
Heck, even before I was behind a proper router, I had no real virus concerns. :B

It's not a proper router unless it's running an IOS.
And does stateful checking...
[/quote]

It running pf makes it quite a decent router though... I find Cisco a bit overkill for home and I don't really like the acl syntax either.
[/quote]
the cisco IOS is a bit over kill for home users, my linksys home router is just fine atm.
[/quote]

I prefer a cheap and silent PC with OpenBSD myself, great firewall/routing software in that little OS...
[/quote]
DD-WRT on my linksys wrt54gs v5 ftw

[Dave]

[quote author=ainmosni link=topic=993.msg26171#msg26171 date=1217437255]
[quote author=zaneyard link=topic=993.msg26169#msg26169 date=1217435151]
[quote author=ainmosni link=topic=993.msg26103#msg26103 date=1217402043]
[quote author=HeK link=topic=993.msg25967#msg25967 date=1217375513]
[quote author=Ceceil Felias link=topic=993.msg25758#msg25758 date=1217309313]
Heck, even before I was behind a proper router, I had no real virus concerns. :B

It's not a proper router unless it's running an IOS.
And does stateful checking...
[/quote]

It running pf makes it quite a decent router though... I find Cisco a bit overkill for home and I don't really like the acl syntax either.
[/quote]
the cisco IOS is a bit over kill for home users, my linksys home router is just fine atm.
[/quote]

I prefer a cheap and silent PC with OpenBSD myself, great firewall/routing software in that little OS...
[/quote]
DD-WRT on my linksys wrt54gs v5 ftw
[/quote]

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i speak computers to.

[Wedge]

I get rape for free.

[jdub28]

i still like to be safe even if i use common sense 2008. its like locking your car doors when your just running in the store to pay for gas. is it really needed, no. does it make you feel better to do it any way, of course.

plus without my NAT being open xbox live is garbage to me

[HeK]

[quote author=zaneyard link=topic=993.msg26169#msg26169 date=1217435151]
[quote author=ainmosni link=topic=993.msg26103#msg26103 date=1217402043]
[quote author=HeK link=topic=993.msg25967#msg25967 date=1217375513]
[quote author=Ceceil Felias link=topic=993.msg25758#msg25758 date=1217309313]
Heck, even before I was behind a proper router, I had no real virus concerns. :B

It's not a proper router unless it's running an IOS.
And does stateful checking...
[/quote]

It running pf makes it quite a decent router though... I find Cisco a bit overkill for home and I don't really like the acl syntax either.
[/quote]
the cisco IOS is a bit over kill for home users, my linksys home router is just fine atm.
[/quote]

I prefer a cheap and silent PC with OpenBSD myself, great firewall/routing software in that little OS...
[/quote]

Smoothwall is a wonderful linux-based gateway platform. Very easy to use for the novice.

[bjlsurfer]

So if you guys run linux and bsd, do you game on it with wine or cedega or something?  Or dual boot?

[KarthXLR]

[quote author=KarthXLR link=topic=993.msg26085#msg26085 date=1217396233]
I get rape for free.

[/quote]
YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO SAY FIXED HURRRRRRR

[[fr31ns]Karrde]

AVG antivirus, Zone Alarm firewall and Adaware ad sweeper.  Not infallible by any means, but will probably disuade most ppl unless someone really wants into my computer for some reason.

[HeK]

So if you guys run linux and bsd, do you game on it with wine or cedega or something?  Or dual boot?

My desktops/laptops are windows, everything else is Unix/Linux. I dual boot Suse on one of my work laptops, but that's more for fun then anything productive.

[ainmosni]

So if you guys run linux and bsd, do you game on it with wine or cedega or something?  Or dual boot?

I run windows on my desktop which is mainly for gaming and Ubuntu on my laptop which I only work from... Servers are mostly BSD and sometimes linux.

[Riosan]

Kaspersky for antivirus, Firefox w/NoScript, and Ad-Aware.

[zaneyard]

i still like to be safe even if i use common sense 2008. its like locking your car doors when your just running in the store to pay for gas. is it really needed, no. does it make you feel better to do it any way, of course.

plus without my NAT being open xbox live is garbage to me

forward ports, go on to xbox live support

[ainmosni]

Karrde link=topic=993.msg26316#msg26316 date=1217473063]
AVG antivirus, Zone Alarm firewall and Adaware ad sweeper.  Not infallible by any means, but will probably disuade most ppl unless someone really wants into my computer for some reason.

All three not really needed if you have a nice router/firewall... Having a virus scanner for if you absolutely have to open some shady file is good but the best advice is just not to open any shady stuff... Application firewalls are the same thing, the most important thing is that your windows machine isn't the internet facing machine... It's a waste of resources to have all that stuff running in the background...

[copulatingduck]

Bump, because good computing practices only get you so far. My boss sent me some files to work on. Unfortunately, he forwarded them from an infected machine at work (now an entire cluster is infected as well). That's what happens when you let stupid undergrads work for you I guess. One of the other idiots I worked with wrecked 3 computers before he left, and now my desktop and thumbdrive are a mess.

sighs

I guess I'll finally go ahead and install ClamWin now that I've got my clean install going.

[ainmosni]

Bump, because good computing practices only get you so far. My boss sent me some files to work on. Unfortunately, he forwarded them from an infected machine at work (now an entire cluster is infected as well). That's what happens when you let stupid undergrads work for you I guess. One of the other idiots I worked with wrecked 3 computers before he left, and now my desktop and thumbdrive are a mess.

sighs

I guess I'll finally go ahead and install ClamWin now that I've got my clean install going.

Not just your good computing practices count but also the people in the chain of trust... If someone you trust fails and you trust his files... nuff said