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Hello
First off I was having problems with losing my connection to the internet, and displaying "page cannot be located"; once I shutdown and started back up I could access everything till I went to idle modethen I would get "page cannot be located" again. So I took my computor to a tech and he cleaned of alot of interent garbage I had on there, and had him load a spamkiller that I could not get loaded. Everything works fine now, but in order to load my spamkiller he had to disable the Mcafee firewall as it is not compatable. Do I need to get another firewall or is the windows XP one sufficient. I am also using Macfee virus scan, and spamkiller. Hope someone can advise me. |
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Greetings --
You need a firewall a lot more than you need a "spam killer." That alleged "tech" did not do you any favors. Bruce Chambers -- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -- RAH "Jolene" wrote in message ... Hello First off I was having problems with losing my connection to the internet, and displaying "page cannot be located"; once I shutdown and started back up I could access everything till I went to idle modethen I would get "page cannot be located" again. So I took my computor to a tech and he cleaned of alot of interent garbage I had on there, and had him load a spamkiller that I could not get loaded. Everything works fine now, but in order to load my spamkiller he had to disable the Mcafee firewall as it is not compatable. Do I need to get another firewall or is the windows XP one sufficient. I am also using Macfee virus scan, and spamkiller. Hope someone can advise me. |
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Thanks for your input, are you going to answer the rest
of the topic or shall I just repost it? -----Original Message----- Greetings -- You need a firewall a lot more than you need a "spam killer." That alleged "tech" did not do you any favors. Bruce Chambers -- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -- RAH "Jolene" wrote in message ... Hello First off I was having problems with losing my connection to the internet, and displaying "page cannot be located"; once I shutdown and started back up I could access everything till I went to idle modethen I would get "page cannot be located" again. So I took my computor to a tech and he cleaned of alot of interent garbage I had on there, and had him load a spamkiller that I could not get loaded. Everything works fine now, but in order to load my spamkiller he had to disable the Mcafee firewall as it is not compatable. Do I need to get another firewall or is the windows XP one sufficient. I am also using Macfee virus scan, and spamkiller. Hope someone can advise me. . |
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Well, if that "alleged tech" did indeed remove alot of garbage, and you have
McAfee everything, that is more than what you need ...just reload McAfee again, and let it configure new. "jolene" wrote in message ... Thanks for your input, are you going to answer the rest of the topic or shall I just repost it? -----Original Message----- Greetings -- You need a firewall a lot more than you need a "spam killer." That alleged "tech" did not do you any favors. Bruce Chambers -- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -- RAH "Jolene" wrote in message ... Hello First off I was having problems with losing my connection to the internet, and displaying "page cannot be located"; once I shutdown and started back up I could access everything till I went to idle modethen I would get "page cannot be located" again. So I took my computor to a tech and he cleaned of alot of interent garbage I had on there, and had him load a spamkiller that I could not get loaded. Everything works fine now, but in order to load my spamkiller he had to disable the Mcafee firewall as it is not compatable. Do I need to get another firewall or is the windows XP one sufficient. I am also using Macfee virus scan, and spamkiller. Hope someone can advise me. . |
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Thanks for your advice, do you mean I should (install)
the McAfee firewall again? If thats what you mean I will purchase a newer version as mine is older now, and that may be where my problems are.(so the alleged tech told me) I contacted McAfee and they verifeid it is an older model and are willing to provide me the newest version on trial. Thanks for your advice and input. It is appreciated. -----Original Message----- Well, if that "alleged tech" did indeed remove alot of garbage, and you have McAfee everything, that is more than what you need ...just reload McAfee again, and let it configure new. "jolene" wrote in message ... Thanks for your input, are you going to answer the rest of the topic or shall I just repost it? -----Original Message----- Greetings -- You need a firewall a lot more than you need a "spam killer." That alleged "tech" did not do you any favors. Bruce Chambers -- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -- RAH "Jolene" wrote in message ... Hello First off I was having problems with losing my connection to the internet, and displaying "page cannot be located"; once I shutdown and started back up I could access everything till I went to idle modethen I would get "page cannot be located" again. So I took my computor to a tech and he cleaned of alot of interent garbage I had on there, and had him load a spamkiller that I could not get loaded. Everything works fine now, but in order to load my spamkiller he had to disable the Mcafee firewall as it is not compatable. Do I need to get another firewall or is the windows XP one sufficient. I am also using Macfee virus scan, and spamkiller. Hope someone can advise me. . . |
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Jolene;
Spam killers are fine but they are not a replacement for a firewall, antivirus or keeping Windows up to date with updates. See this link: http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/Security.htm Last thing to replace is the "tech". Techs like that will get your computer in trouble and another tech will be guaranteed another job to fix what he goofed. Hopefully he was free, and at that overpriced. -- Jupiter Jones [MVP] An easier way to read newsgroup messages: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...oups/setup.asp http://dts-l.org/index.html "jolene" wrote in message ... Thanks for your input, are you going to answer the rest of the topic or shall I just repost it? -----Original Message----- Greetings -- You need a firewall a lot more than you need a "spam killer." That alleged "tech" did not do you any favors. Bruce Chambers -- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -- RAH "Jolene" wrote in message ... Hello First off I was having problems with losing my connection to the internet, and displaying "page cannot be located"; once I shutdown and started back up I could access everything till I went to idle modethen I would get "page cannot be located" again. So I took my computor to a tech and he cleaned of alot of interent garbage I had on there, and had him load a spamkiller that I could not get loaded. Everything works fine now, but in order to load my spamkiller he had to disable the Mcafee firewall as it is not compatable. Do I need to get another firewall or is the windows XP one sufficient. I am also using Macfee virus scan, and spamkiller. Hope someone can advise me. |
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Thank you very much. Your input is valuable, and I've
now learnt. I am replacing my firewall with an updated version, though the lesson is costly, the "tech" did well. Thanks again. Will be using the link you provided. Hope you all have a wonderful holiday season! -----Original Message----- Jolene; Spam killers are fine but they are not a replacement for a firewall, antivirus or keeping Windows up to date with updates. See this link: http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/Security.htm Last thing to replace is the "tech". Techs like that will get your computer in trouble and another tech will be guaranteed another job to fix what he goofed. Hopefully he was free, and at that overpriced. -- Jupiter Jones [MVP] An easier way to read newsgroup messages: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...g/newsgroups/s etup.asp http://dts-l.org/index.html "jolene" wrote in message ... Thanks for your input, are you going to answer the rest of the topic or shall I just repost it? -----Original Message----- Greetings -- You need a firewall a lot more than you need a "spam killer." That alleged "tech" did not do you any favors. Bruce Chambers -- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -- RAH "Jolene" wrote in message ... Hello First off I was having problems with losing my connection to the internet, and displaying "page cannot be located"; once I shutdown and started back up I could access everything till I went to idle modethen I would get "page cannot be located" again. So I took my computor to a tech and he cleaned of alot of interent garbage I had on there, and had him load a spamkiller that I could not get loaded. Everything works fine now, but in order to load my spamkiller he had to disable the Mcafee firewall as it is not compatable. Do I need to get another firewall or is the windows XP one sufficient. I am also using Macfee virus scan, and spamkiller. Hope someone can advise me. . |
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No one actually replied about the xP firewall. For what its worth I have had
mine for 2 years and have had no problems. I do a disc cleanup every month to get rid of internet garbage and unnecessary files |
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Thanks, I also do a disc cleanup and defrag every week,
Mcafee advised me that my firewall was an outdated one, so am in the progress of upgrading. Thank again. ----- Original Message----- No one actually replied about the xP firewall. For what its worth I have had mine for 2 years and have had no problems. I do a disc cleanup every month to get rid of internet garbage and unnecessary files . |
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Greetings --
Didn't realize it was a two-part question. ;-} Since you've already paid for the McAfee firewall, I think you'd be wasteful not to use it. WinXP's built-in firewall is fine at stopping incoming attacks, and hiding your ports from probes. It doesn't give you any alarms to tell you that it is working, though. What WinXP also does not do, is protect you from any Trojans or spyware that you might download and install inadvertently. It doesn't monitor out-going traffic at all, much less block (or at least ask you about) the bad or the questionable out-going packets. ZoneAlarm, Kerio, or Sygate are all much better, and are much more easily configured, and there are a free versions of each readily available. Even Symantec's Norton Personal Firewall is superior, although it does take a heavier toll of performance then do ZoneAlarm, Kerio, or Sygate. Bruce Chambers -- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -- RAH "jolene" wrote in message ... Thanks for your input, are you going to answer the rest of the topic or shall I just repost it? -----Original Message----- Greetings -- You need a firewall a lot more than you need a "spam killer." That alleged "tech" did not do you any favors. Bruce Chambers -- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -- RAH "Jolene" wrote in message ... Hello First off I was having problems with losing my connection to the internet, and displaying "page cannot be located"; once I shutdown and started back up I could access everything till I went to idle modethen I would get "page cannot be located" again. So I took my computor to a tech and he cleaned of alot of interent garbage I had on there, and had him load a spamkiller that I could not get loaded. Everything works fine now, but in order to load my spamkiller he had to disable the Mcafee firewall as it is not compatable. Do I need to get another firewall or is the windows XP one sufficient. I am also using Macfee virus scan, and spamkiller. Hope someone can advise me. . |
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Sounds like the "tech" just deleted all the internet cached items and
cookies. Then installed a crappy firewall and spam software. Hope it wasn't more than five dollar charge... Get rid of all instances of your current firewall and antivirus software, have fun. Kill the spamkiller. Install NAV2004, leave all at default. Install ZoneAlarm Pro, it will clean your your cache intermittently for you as part of options once installed. Cookie blocking is customizable. Leave it so as to scrutinize anything accessing the internet. Install Mailwasher Pro. If you're using cable, get a hardware router. Dave "Jolene" wrote in message ... Hello First off I was having problems with losing my connection to the internet, and displaying "page cannot be located"; once I shutdown and started back up I could access everything till I went to idle modethen I would get "page cannot be located" again. So I took my computor to a tech and he cleaned of alot of interent garbage I had on there, and had him load a spamkiller that I could not get loaded. Everything works fine now, but in order to load my spamkiller he had to disable the Mcafee firewall as it is not compatable. Do I need to get another firewall or is the windows XP one sufficient. I am also using Macfee virus scan, and spamkiller. Hope someone can advise me. |
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