[Rhodes22-list] Computer security - squirrelly (sp?)

[Kroposki]

Bill,
	What operating system are you using, my experience with any
Microsoft operating system is that eventually they act squirrelly (sp?).
Sometimes you can get away with just reloading the operating system.
But sometimes you have to format the drive and reload everything.  Been
there, done that.
	I am using XP, so far so good.  But software does get corrupted
just from use.
             Ed K

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Berner [mailto:bberner at optonline.net] 
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 10:36 AM
To: kroposki at innova.net; 'The Rhodes 22 mail list'
Subject: Computer security - WAS RE: [Rhodes22-list] End ZEDO

Ed Et. Al -

How good, in your experience, is Norton?  I only run Norton and whatever
bloat ware Microsoft is continually updating outlook ad explorer with.

My mail is checked on the way in, and the drives are all scanned
periodically as well.  I update virus definitions regularly

I have a wireless network with a linksys WAP/Router that has some sort
of
built in firewall.  I do not use any encryption.

It is EXTREMELY rare that  Norton ever strips anything or alerts me of
any
sort of problem, and the scans always come up totally clean.

But I don't trust it.  At times the computer acts squirrelly (sp?).
Just
the other day no Email messages would display if written in plain text.
Once machine was shut down and restarted, all was fine.  I've had
problems
with other software that required me to uninstall, remove all references
in
Regedit and reinstall to correct.

Last night working late, I found the computer uploading and downloading
packets like crazy, for no reason I'm aware of.  I disabled the network
connection to stop it.

I am being paranoid, or is my security regimen to light weight for the
new
millennium?  Recently, for the first time I put a user password on the
computer to try to keep out prying networked eyes.  Now, I think I'll
start
by enabling WEP.

Thoughts and opinions from all would be appreciated.  Or should I call
the
defense dept?



Bill Berner
191 South Broadway
Hastings on Hudson, NY  10706
 
v 914 478 2896
f 914 478 3856
e BBerner at optonline.net
 

-----Original Message-----
From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Kroposki
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 9:34 AM
To: 'The Rhodes 22 mail list'
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] End ZEDO

Michael, Dennis,
	On this computer I use McAfee, Spam filter, Pest Patrol, Spybot,
plus the built in filters of Microsoft.  So a lot of stuff gets
stripped.  I wasn't worried about getting anything, just wanted some
input what was going on, some feedback.
	On my other computer I trying Norton as the anti virus and just
spybot.  I cannot have some of the filters active because they cause
problems with tying into 'University' software that my wife needs to
communicate with students.  But they have some hot shot people keeping
their network clean.  We keep getting messages that an email was
stripped because it may have been carrying a bug.
                                  Ed K



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