Re: FN-FORUM: Any hackers here?

date posted 4th August 2004 17:01

On Wednesday 04 Aug 2004 5:34 pm, Antony T Curtis wrote:

> Norton Internet Security is pretty good, easy enough for my in-laws to

No no no no no no no no.

*No* *no* *no* *no* *no* *no* *no* *no* *no* *no* *no*.

NO!

Somebody I know, a competent software engineer [1] and someone who=20
generally Knows His Stuff [2], said this recently:=20
"I had a similar situation with a W2K PC I built for a friend's kids.
Loaded W2K, SP4 (from a CD), Norton AV and Norton Firewall. =20
Then went on line to get virus and firewall updates but got infected fir=
st."

Zonealarm. AVG. SpybotSD. Adaware. These are the tools you need.

Julian, mail me the IP address and I'll mail you back a port scan.

[1] Sadly, a rare breed.
[2] Apart from not yet knowing about the dangers of trusting Norton...