Attacked Through EMail

[greengoose1]

One of my emails was attacked about 40 times. The people that own this now are Computer Associates. Almost all Emails were stopped and the ones that were not I did not open.

I went looking and found the cause/causes here -

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/03/malware_blitz/

This article, once again, illustrated that crimminals are trying to cash in on the internet. Nice Ay? Also JM's Internet News had an article that would not open on the 19 Malware items article.

Back to the computers - The only concern I had was some back door infections which I find no evidence of. Here is my setup in case you want to know.

Win XP and the latest version of IM. Using a hardware router that is 100% shealthed, XP's firewall, ZA, Sygate (the last two for monitoring and control purposes), and AVG. In addition various online scanners. A registry file report is good to scan also if you know what you have in it. All of this is passive defense except for one active which is me the computer user. Rule number 1, one more time, is if you don't know what it is do not open it. The other possibility is the back door trojan which cannot be stopped, but the chances are probably less than 1% of getting one. Registry backups can really help and a big time saver too.

You could spend all day every day working on Malware Defense but that is not why you bought your computer. All that is needed is to setup your defenses so it is easy to work with and fast.

And if you take a little time to learn the concepts your reward in what you can do is greatly increased.

I hope this helps you all.

[liam858]

GG,Thanks for the tips for keeping on top of these things, i guess it was a waste to attack you with that setup:

Win XP and the latest version of IM. Using a hardware router that is 100% shealthed, XP's firewall, ZA, Sygate (the last two for monitoring and control purposes), and AVG. In addition various online scanners.

I guess the important message here is to have protection software and be aware..........

....and the ones that were not I did not open.

Liam

[poppy4]

Using a hardware router that is 100% shealthed, XP's firewall, ZA, Sygate (the last two for monitoring and control purposes), and AVG.

Do you have XP's firewall and ZA both running without conflict?
I run ZA and have XP firewall disabled, because I thought they would be in conflict, is my reason for asking.
tia.
poppy

[liam858]

Poppy,I run both ZA Security Suite with Windows Firewall, without conflict.



Liam

[poppy4]

Thanks Liam,
I'm going to try it that way.
poppy

EDIT: Well, it has been 45 minutes, running both, and no problems.

[liam858]

EDIT: Well, it has been 45 minutes, running both, and no problems.

All seems okay then, lets hope it stays that way.



Liam

[greengoose1]

Hello poppy, They do not conflict.

[poppy4]

Thanks GG...that's what I'm finding out....been running both since yesterday, and no problems.
poppy