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Date: June 20, 2011 at 01:19:44
From: Barb sw wa, [DNS_Address]
Subject: I have Zonealarm for a firewall; are there better options... |
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Just wondering if I would be better off to have a different firewall protection. Mine is the free version of ZoneAlarm. So far, I haven't had any problems, but for some reason, I'm not that comfortable with how to use it. Any suggestions of better options for firewall protection would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Date: June 21, 2011 at 00:06:07
From: mr bopp, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: I have Zonealarm for a firewall; are there better options... |
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a mac and little snitch...
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Date: June 21, 2011 at 11:24:09
From: Don in Hollister, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: I have Zonealarm for a firewall; are there better options... |
URL: MAC Viruses |
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Hi Ryan. There was a time when MAC computers were virus free, but those days are slowly but surely coming to an end. My daughter has a new MAC computer and she got a virus about a month ago that took her a week to get it out of her computer. She got it while visiting Facebook.
The more popular MAC becomes the more your apt to get a virus. The thing I find interesting is that it seems that only the newer MACs seem to have problems with viruses. The older models don't. My daughter has an 8 year old MAC and has never gotten a virus in it. She would visit Facebook once or twice a week so she didn't think the new one would have any problems.
She is currently using Norton Anitvirus, but it is a resource hog. She is looking around for another one. Take Care...Don
http://www.ehow.com/about_6170181_do-computers-need-virus-protection_.html
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Date: June 25, 2011 at 09:36:46
From: mr bopp, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: I have Zonealarm for a firewall; are there better options... |
URL: http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html |
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tell her to get little snitch...
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Date: June 25, 2011 at 10:19:26
From: Quaker, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: I have Zonealarm for a firewall; are there better options... |
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Individual Dimwit Award goes to bopp - great recommendation for
software to PC users...
Little Snitch = Works on PowerPC and Intel based Macs running Mac OS X
10.4 or later
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Date: June 25, 2011 at 11:39:05
From: mr bopp, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: I have Zonealarm for a firewall; are there better options... |
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don was talking about his daughter's mac...and take the personal crap to liaho...
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Date: June 25, 2011 at 14:28:35
From: Quaker, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: I have Zonealarm for a firewall; are there better options... |
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I have nothing positive to say.
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Date: June 25, 2011 at 10:29:12
From: Quaker, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: I have Zonealarm for a firewall; are there better options... |
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PS I can't think of a reason why you would want/need to use Little Snitch
unless you were using pirated software...
Bopp, is your software all paid for?? lol
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Date: June 21, 2011 at 12:17:46
From: cpugeek, [DNS_Address]
Subject: ol macs |
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The old macs used a motorola series chip set which uses inverted bytes compared to intel products. Thus many viruses which worked on intel chips did not work on motorola chip instruction sets. Then somebody decided to buy out apple cpus and install intel chips instead of motorola chip sets. Now virues have free run of the field... ain't corp. buyouts wondeful.
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Date: June 21, 2011 at 15:49:28
From: Hammy the Hamster, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: ol macs |
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Any links of these PC virus crossing over and effecting intel macs whilst in
OSX (not when booted in bootcamp, crossover etc mode)
Thanks
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Date: June 20, 2011 at 19:21:49
From: Don in Hollister, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: I have Zonealarm for a firewall; are there better options... |
URL: free firewalls |
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Hi Barb. A good friend of mine uses Comodo firewall and likes it. Anyway the link is to a few of those that are free. Take Care...Don
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Date: June 20, 2011 at 23:19:10
From: Barb sw wa, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: I have Zonealarm for a firewall; are there better options... |
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Thanks Don for your reply and the link. I'll give it a try! --Barb
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