Quake3World

Suggestions?

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

comodo firewall. great and free

Neat!

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

how does comodo compare to the latest sygate?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

whereto?

dunno it's prolly hidden, search for it?

oh you might need it enabled first

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

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

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

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.

i did that in late december but lost the note

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

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

lol, nice.

heh