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[ashaman]

... dont use any firewall products, just the Windows firewall properly configured. With SP2 those 3rd party wirefalls do nothing but suck the life out of your system and provide little or no upgrade in protection for the type of use a typical user does...

Allow me to stop you.

While WinxXp Sp2 firewall is sufficient against incoming threats it does NOTHING against outgoing programs.

You download a virus that operates on the net (a trojan, for example)? With a third party firewall, the firewall tells you: "Hey pal, there's this program that wants to communicate with the net, what should I do?"

The windows firewall simply gives a "go ahead" to everything that wants to connect. Great firewall indeed. A great help to virus developers worldwide, really.

How many less DOS attacks would we have if people took in their mind that the default windows firewalls are crap and pay a little more attention to what they do.

A better suggestion in this matter is to shut off all the firewalls if simflying off-line, and to use the windows firewall ONLY WHILE SIMFLYING ONLINE (because you're not going to download and install anything even remotely dangerous while simflying). BUT, when using your PC outside FS, shut off that half-assed default firewall and get yourself a GOOD one. The cheapest freeware firewall you can find around is worlds better than the inbuilt one under any security point of view.

It's a little more complex, but your security will be better for it.

[justpassingthrough]

... dont use any firewall products, just the Windows firewall properly configured. With SP2 those 3rd party wirefalls do nothing but suck the life out of your system and provide little or no upgrade in protection for the type of use a typical user does...

Allow me to stop you.

While WinxXp Sp2 firewall is sufficient against incoming threats it does NOTHING against outgoing programs.

You download a virus that operates on the net (a trojan, for example)? With a third party firewall, the firewall tells you: "Hey pal, there's this program that wants to communicate with the net, what should I do?"

The windows firewall simply gives a "go ahead" to everything that wants to connect. Great firewall indeed. A great help to virus developers worldwide, really.

How many less DOS attacks would we have if people took in their mind that the default windows firewalls are crap and pay a little more attention to what they do.

A better suggestion in this matter is to shut off all the firewalls if simflying off-line, and to use the windows firewall ONLY WHILE SIMFLYING ONLINE (because you're not going to download and install anything even remotely dangerous while simflying). BUT, when using your PC outside FS, shut off that half-assed default firewall and get yourself a GOOD one. The cheapest freeware firewall you can find around is worlds better than the inbuilt one under any security point of view.

It's a little more complex, but your security will be better for it.

Disagree, with exceptions

That

[ashaman]

Paranoia is one of the best internet marketing systems in place today. "Microsoft sucks and is unsecure" sells quite a bit.

Objection, your honor!

Was talking about freeware there, you know.

I dont need a an virtual paranoia firewall screaming a connection is being made to or from the internet every 20 seconds, which most from the internet are legit and typical.

On the net, paranoia helps you not having to format and reinstall every 3 months.

Not trying to be boastful, and I touch iron while writing these words, but on the PC I write this very moment I installed Xp in 2002, and since I install very little on this working machine, have yet to find myself in a position to have to format and reinstall.

Paranoia pays off, at times. Let me tell you.

That's why I refuse to use that virus inviting program of Outlook, or his accomplice in crime Internet Exploiter. Or the default firewall, for that.

Never been hit and I never will

You have my best wishes. But allow me to caution you. Excessive sureness in yourself is as damaging and keeping yourself open to outside attacks.

Be always wary. Wariness helps keeping up sharp and ready.

I dont us free or cheap protection

I surely don't. Sure I do prefer freeware, but if capable freeware is not available for the duty at hand, then it's time to do some shopping.

It's all a matter of what you need against what is available. If you need more and better than what's is free, time to pay for the privilege.

I myself have long discarded Norton. It simply is IMPOSSIBLE to understand how performance killing it is (almost as bad as sVista) unless you go out of your way and find some GOOD alternatives and then make comparisons before/after.

And GOOD alternatives to Norton are far from rare, if you know where to look for.

In the end, I feel that giving a single tailored solution for all the needs is a mistake. The default firewall is not up to speed. Useful while simflying online, alright, but very poor for common browsing.

A firewall capable of outgoing traffic control is a must, I feel, for a complete and as sure as possible use of the net nowadays.

That and a GOOD antivirus.

Of course, in the very end, like fore sim versions and operative systems, whatever floats your boat. And that's true for each and anyone of us.

[justpassingthrough]

Paranoia is one of the best internet marketing systems in place today. "Microsoft sucks and is unsecure" sells quite a bit.

Objection, your honor!

Was talking about freeware there, you know.

I dont need a an virtual paranoia firewall screaming a connection is being made to or from the internet every 20 seconds, which most from the internet are legit and typical.

On the net, paranoia helps you not having to format and reinstall every 3 months.

Not trying to be boastful, and I touch iron while writing these words, but on the PC I write this very moment I installed Xp in 2002, and since I install very little on this working machine, have yet to find myself in a position to have to format and reinstall.

Paranoia pays off, at times. Let me tell you.

That's why I refuse to use that virus inviting program of Outlook, or his accomplice in crime Internet Exploiter. Or the default firewall, for that.

Never been hit and I never will

You have my best wishes. But allow me to caution you. Excessive sureness in yourself is as damaging and keeping yourself open to outside attacks.

Be always wary. Wariness helps keeping up sharp and ready.

I dont us free or cheap protection

I surely don't. Sure I do prefer freeware, but if capable freeware is not available for the duty at hand, then it's time to do some shopping.

It's all a matter of what you need against what is available. If you need more and better than what's is free, time to pay for the privilege.

I myself have long discarded Norton. It simply is IMPOSSIBLE to understand how performance killing it is (almost as bad as sVista) unless you go out of your way and find some GOOD alternatives and then make comparisons before/after.

And GOOD alternatives to Norton are far from rare, if you know where to look for.

In the end, I feel that giving a single tailored solution for all the needs is a mistake. The default firewall is not up to speed. Useful while simflying online, alright, but very poor for common browsing.

A firewall capable of outgoing traffic control is a must, I feel, for a complete and as sure as possible use of the net nowadays.

That and a GOOD antivirus.

Of course, in the very end, like fore sim versions and operative systems, whatever floats your boat. And that's true for each and anyone of us.

As I said, I paid my 50 bucks to http://www.eset.com and I won

[justpassingthrough]

There is something to be said for those who are over zealous in matters of security and who may believe they need more protection than is necessary. A typical internet user who takes the right precautions does not need all that security stuff running. If they own a business, thats different because the system needs insurance and does not care if the cpu or memory are hogged down for those features.

Those who take home computing to levels of corporate security have done so by plan.

You see, Microsoft used that demeanor to soften the blow to having a little program called Windows Defender which is incorporated into Vista permanently and even when shut down, monitors not only the status of spyware on a system but if the user is running unregistered or cracked software, at which point it will contact Microsoft and with instructions from their servers, uninstall the illegal software.

This is what the paranoia of the internet has allowed to happen, not Microsoft. They just used the opportunity that the

[Nick N]

[quote]

Those who take home computing to levels of corporate security have done so by plan.

They used that paranoia to get their ultimate spy program and other features of the OS which can not be shut down without crippling the Vista OS past public opinion.

Unfortunately people are gullible and listen to the hype instead of learning the difference between what is true, and what a planned and hyped gimmick is for future use.

I don

[ashaman]

I do not condone piracy, yet there's something to say about a corporation that thinks something of yours as theirs to use as they think best for themselves only and exclusively.

Why do you think sVista has all the success of a ice cream on the polar pack? I know people that had it preinstalled, ran headlong into absurd problems with programs they owned legally, decided to reinstall WinXp from their old systems to try, did not have anymore problem and decided that he nice and heavy aeroglass could remain in Redmont, kick dropping sVista back towards the States soon after.

A pair of persons I know even went over to Linux once and for all.

If what you say about paranoia is true, is true from below up. And in the end, if I can't use a thing, or if this thing instead to help me makes my life difficult, I will not buy it much less use it. And I'm far from thinking about hose lines. Paranoia is and remains a double edged sword in the hands of whoever, not only in the hands of the end user.

As for the various mechanisms in sVista... give it time. I speak with the jaded cynicism of one who has seen the impossible happen on daily basis on the computer world. If a thing can be built, it CAN be laid low. It's the old snake that bites its own tail. And M$ has made itself a lot of "admirers" a lot worse and a hell of more proactive than I am (that could not code worth a damn and only use third party programs instead of theirs), and I'm telling you nothing new. These are things that EVERYONE knows.

Be it clear that I'm not rooting for no one here. I'm simply stating a fact.

[Falcon Fixer]

Meanwhile, back at the subject at hand, my cpu locked up, no monitor, no nothing after I set the NVIDIA cfg and FS9 cfg. Computer would run fine when I booted in the morning. If I let it go to s/by mode and left it on for 2-3 hrs the computer died....not even a light from my optical mouse. I tried unplugging from the wall for 30 minutes.....nothing. I left it turned off for 2-3 hrs......nothing......not even a light from the mouse.....screen black as if it were off, but the pwr light was on for the monitor. Also had the pwr light for the cpu even though it was dead. Thurs am and Fri am the computer started fine and died by noon.  Long story short(er), I kept the recommended FS9 cfg and set NVIDIA back to default. Computer has been on all day long and I have no problems. Result???? Happy camper. Screen looks better with the new FS9 cfg. Tom F.

[ashaman]

Look, give hear to a computer technician (ever up the 386). No software tweak outside overclock can disable your hardware. Your software yes, but the hardware NO.

If something happened to your hardware, and you did not overclock, then it's NO FAULT OF TWEAKS.

If you did overclock, then that's another matter, but if you only moved some parameters around and your hardware died, it's simply being unlucky.

Better luck with your next hardware.

[justpassingthrough]

[quote]Meanwhile, back at the subject at hand, my cpu locked up, no monitor, no nothing after I set the NVIDIA cfg and FS9 cfg. Computer would run fine when I booted in the morning. If I let it go to s/by mode and left it on for 2-3 hrs the computer died....not even a light from my optical mouse. I tried unplugging from the wall for 30 minutes.....nothing. I left it turned off for 2-3 hrs......nothing......not even a light from the mouse.....screen black as if it were off, but the pwr light was on for the monitor. Also had the pwr light for the cpu even though it was dead. Thurs am and Fri am the computer started fine and died by noon.

[Nick N]

[quote][quote]Meanwhile, back at the subject at hand, my cpu locked up, no monitor, no nothing after I set the NVIDIA cfg and FS9 cfg. Computer would run fine when I booted in the morning. If I let it go to s/by mode and left it on for 2-3 hrs the computer died....not even a light from my optical mouse. I tried unplugging from the wall for 30 minutes.....nothing. I left it turned off for 2-3 hrs......nothing......not even a light from the mouse.....screen black as if it were off, but the pwr light was on for the monitor. Also had the pwr light for the cpu even though it was dead. Thurs am and Fri am the computer started fine and died by noon.