Upgrading firewall

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:19 am

Suggestions?

Post by **Underpants?** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:54 am

personal? never use desktop stuff, just google into "registry edits to harden xp (2k) " and know your egress ports on the router.

Post by **dzjepp** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 7:09 am

comodo firewall. great and free

Post by **Underpants?** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 7:24 am

Neat!

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 7:29 am

personal use, and better than sygate which i find a pleasure

how does comodo compare to the latest sygate?

Post by **Foo** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:59 pm

If you're on XP SP2, the Windows Firewall is fine if you're behind a NAT router.

Post by **ilumos** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 3:14 pm

Foo wrote:If you're on XP SP2, the Windows Firewall is fine if you're behind a NAT router.

This man speaks the truth.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:25 pm

Foo wrote:If you're on XP SP2, the Windows Firewall is fine if you're behind a NAT router.

I have trouble updating my XP atm, and I assume that would affect any Windows firewall upgrades therein so I'll stick to comodo.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:03 pm

er, what kind of "trouble". sounds to me like you're on SP1 still but are a bit paranoid about your lack of a firewall. you've got quite a vulnerable box without SP2.

i'd rather have SP2 without a firewall, than SP1 with one.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:30 pm

I'm on SP2, Home. Towards the end of December my laptop would crash when it attempted to update, very likely related to something malicious, anyway I used a program to remove the malicious what's-it but still the problem persisted (persists).

The blue screen mentioned something about a .sys (not .dll if I recall) each time, the same one everytime. Right well I haven't attempted to update since repeated failures to resolve this issue in early January. Would have to attempt an update/crash to pull up the particular sys file again that's causing trouble, I recall it being associated with some malicious software back when I googled it.

Post by **Captain** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:51 pm

Would help if you could provide the name of the file causing the BSOD, as well as the error code.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:55 pm

i cannot provide the blue screen text because i doubt i can screenshot it at that point. I don't plan on crashing my laptop just yet to tell you what the file name is either. It was something like lz32.sys with a few characters preceding the lz.

Post by **dzjepp** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 1:51 am

Massive Quasars wrote:personal use, and better than sygate which i find a pleasure

how does comodo compare to the latest sygate?

you mean the last sygate that was updated like over a year and a half ago? i agree it is a superb firewall but i wouldn't trust it nowadays since the lack of updates (bought out by symantec). just try it out i think you'll like it

Post by **dzjepp** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 1:53 am

windows blue screen errors are saved in .dmp files, if you didn't use a file cleaner it should still be there btw

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 1:56 am

whereto?

Post by **dzjepp** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:38 am

dunno it's prolly hidden, search for it?

Post by **dzjepp** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:39 am

oh you might need it enabled first

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315263

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:53 am

found it on another account at 0kb, and no .dmp file on this account despite having small dump enabled

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:22 am

i'll produce the information next weekend or sooner if it crashes unexpectedly for the same reason

Post by **Captain** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:00 am

You can also jot down the exact error code when it does crash. That's what I did when I was BSODing every 5 minutes last spring.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:56 am

i did that in late december but lost the note

Post by **Lieutenant Dan** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:08 am

Hmm, I just downloaded Comodo, I've liked it so far

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 12:28 am

i don't

talk about an ordeal, it prevented the DHCP assignment of IPs to network devices on this system and so I was without network or internet capacity for a little while (shock to the system). I finally took a shot in the dark and uninstalled it and everything was as it should be, once again.

wank

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 12:34 am

lol, nice.

Post by **dzjepp** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:32 am