The new improved BlackIce Defender... maybe :0-)

[Zed]

When Bane was talking about Kerio I spoke about a new firewall product that will change the landscape: Heres a screen shot.

What your seeing - specifically the top 3 lines are the following:

An email attachment with a double extention - .doc.pif is trying to get through to my system - then the MAlcode system picks up the attachment on its arrival into the email system and tells me ive got something malicious.

DEleting or quarantining the file stops it from going anywhere - but essentially without any need for an AV product ive nailed the file which incedently is a variant of SoBig.

Now that was a little staged as i emailed it from my btinternet account spam folder (off btinternet directly) to my clan email account. But if that was anew variant we would still catch and stop the execution of the file. nifty eh?

 

[Git]

i sit behind me router mate.. havent used a firewall since my last format, do you still think it's worth running one ? as i used blackice for eons and always found it useful.. but since the router install blackice picks up **** all cause it can't see past me router :/

 

[Zed]

i sit behind me router mate.. havent used a firewall since my last format, do you still think it's worth running one ? as i used blackice for eons and always found it useful.. but since the router install blackice picks up **** all cause it can't see past me router :/

Yes and no. In your case I know, historically, youve not been a huge emailer so as long as your patches on the os are uptodate probably not.

Like you mine never triggers but as a fairly hefty emailer I risk getting numerous emails through the woodwork which might be viral. So for me its well worth it.

The 'security consultant' in me says ALWAYS run a personal firewall however being behind a router helps a hell of a lot and could be argued negates the need.

 

[Yorculen]

The 'security consultant' in me says ALWAYS run a personal firewall however being behind a router helps a hell of a lot and could be argued negates the need.

I wounld say get one! I run behind a router too, but lets say the files does get through, or you download a viral file, and open it. So long as it is not Email bound, you get another chance from within your firewall to stop the information been sent from your PC.

Always trust in AV and a Firewall even if you are behind a Router.

 

[Rowan]

I agree, a firewall is esential, but at least with a btinternet email account you can always check online the things without ever downloading them until you know for certain that they are clean.
As I don't download anything as such (besides the updates for my AVG and game patches) I find my biggest security threat is my mother-in-law <cough> emails now I scan everything online first before dunping/downloading into outlook, since I started it she hasn't managed to send me a single virus.

 

[Tiswas]

So at the moment I am sitting behind a router, have Nortons Internet Security, Nortons AntiVirus, Spybot and LavaSoft Adaware. I surely have enough or should I dump the Nortons Internet Security and go for BlackIce?

BlackIce used to be annoying when doing online gaming but that was a long time a go and guess it's not as troublesome now. I do have a lot of work emails sent to my home email address and with the jokes that the same collegues send I do get a bit concerned. Everytime the computer seems to lag the first thing I always seem to be thinking is 'is there a virus/trojan' that not of the software has picked up?'

Soon I feel like I'll need a computer with all virus/torojan software on it linked to the computer I actually use generally

 

[McHoff H. McChrist]

Yeah, I'm half tempted to have a seperate machine for important work (well, on the offchance that I have any...). The best internet security's not to be connected to it.

Saying that, there's technology on the market at the moment, with which you can power up a turned-off computer, and manipulate the data on it from a van outside the house. I think my computer needs a tin-foil hat...

 

[Ky]

You? Important work? ROFLMAO.

Priceless.

 

[Bertyr]

Zed ... is this what you mentioned months ago that your company was working on? Proventia ??
If so what's that got to do with Blackice?