Bill Freeman wrote:

I personally use ZoneAlarm software firewall (free) to stop any
hankypanky (IN and OUT) plus absolutely refuse to use either
Netscape mail or Outlook.  I have carefully selected an old 16 bit
copy of Eudora, and resolutely resisted any upgrades to make
it much less likely that my "stupid" old e-mail client would even
understand what most of the virus stuff is, so I'm prretty sure that by
never executing an attachement unless it is verified from the sender
and with (current) Norton AntiVirus running I'm doing about as
much as I can.

I note that I REGULARLY get incoming efforts to access my computer,
most frequently from "Asia Pacific Net" - my guess is Chinese hackers
looking to screw with any US computers that they can, just trolling thru
the Internet addresses and ports.  Perhaps a bit too melodramatic, but
perhaps not.

I had a temporary Mindspring e-mail address and ZoneAlarm caught and
I squelched their supplied app running on my machine without any mention
of it in their literature; returning info about my connection ( and what else??)
EVERY time I logged on.  Hunted it down and killed it.  Would have
never known my machine was sending out info without my knowledge.

Bill Freeman

 
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