Klarinet Archive - Posting 000230.txt from 2004/03

From: Jeremy A Schiffer <schiffer@------.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Virus
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:51:52 -0500


A commercial firewall serves one purpose: to make money for the firewall
vendor.

http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/mimedefang/
http://au2.spamassassin.org/index.html

These two FREE products, when properly deployed, will do more to protect
you than anything else.

Also, reliable, updated anti-virus software is necessary, but by no means
a comprehensive solution.

Another good product is Pest Patrol (http://www.pestpatrol.com/). It does
cost money, but is far, far better than free programs like Adaware and
Spybot for removing spyware and preventing trojan and other malicious
programs from entering your system (and cleaning them if they're already
there).

-jeremy

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Ken Wolman wrote:

> Tom Wood wrote:
>
> > Mark and Ken...........Am I correct in assuming that your average
> > 'firewall' setup between a small office LAN and the ISP is no help
> > protecting the LAN from a virus that enters the LAN as email or an email
> > attachment?
> >
> > Tom W
>
> You might say that. We are told periodically (a few times a month) to
> run the virus update on McAfee, check everything, reboot, do it again.
> Whatever is in IT isn't stopping squat.
>
> ken

   
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