Spyware

[astcell]

Just edit your lmhost file and put in the spam sites as your localhost.

[KinoEye]

If all you want to do is just block ads, why not just download something like privoxy? It's easy and simple, even my mother could set the thing up.

[d3ad1ysp0rk]

I think a quiz on the rules beforehand would probably work the best.

[Gadsden]

Can we set up the boards so until you read the rules, the only avatar you have to choose from is, "I'm an asshat for not reading the rules" or "I'm a fucktard for not reading the rules." Then when you read the rules you get a link at the bottom for other avatars. :>

I like that.. or maybe make them find a code buried in the rules that they have to find to be able to complete getting an account..

[astcell]

Can we set up the boards so until you read the rules, the only avatar you have to choose from is, "I'm an asshat for not reading the rules" or "I'm a fucktard for not reading the rules." Then when you read the rules you get a link at the bottom for other avatars. :>

[Clp727]

girloutthere,

Almost any question you have can be answered with a Google search. And then there is http://www.webopedia.com/ . A good explanation of ICMP can be found here -> http://www.activexperts.com/activsoc...oduction-ping/

If you really are interested and you wanna actually see a "ping", bring up your command shell (Start, Run, cmd or command) and type ping 127.0.0.1 that IP is a loopback IP address. (You would be pinging yourself.)

[noid]

make it stop. please, make it stop

[lil_freak]

AHHHHH!

DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!!!!!!!!!!!

I wonder if people who come here notice that no one else uses different fonts and colors.... Maybe that should clue them in...

I did notice that she was reading the rules after her first post, so maybe this will only be a one time event for her.


[smartassremark]The color does kinda make you want to puke, but it will wake you up.[/smartassremark]

this is my first post also.

AHHHHH!

DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!!!!!!!!!!!

I wonder if people who come here notice that no one else uses different fonts and colors.... Maybe that should clue them in...

[girloutthere]

spyware, firewalls, and an observation

this is my first post also. I found this site (and this thread) today after noticing on my "McAfee personal firewall" that akamaitechnologies.com (note: different numbers and stuff preceded the "aka..." -and yes, "deploy" was in there) had ICMP Pinged me several times. (By the way, what does that mean? ICMP Ping? Anyone??). Another commonly occuring address that's been noted by this firewall is ipt.aol.com (preceded by letters and numbers that vary from address to address but all share the ipt.aol.com). There have been others that have acted similarly, but today I decided to try and figure out what this aka.... address was about. I haven't gotten a concrete answer to that question yet, but it did lead me to this site and thread, and here I am.
My laptop came with a firewall, which works pretty well, but I lived with trojans, worms, and all that junk until I bought some virus protection. I chose McAfee Anti-Virus, because it was there, and I'd been told that between the leading A-V's, one was as good as another (i'd love comments/opinions on that -via this thread or email). Later, my server offered this McAfee personal firewall, which gives me a very basic summary of whose been ICMP Pinging me and TCP Ports associated with certain addresses and activities (another thing i don't understand).

As you can see, I'm just learning the basics of all this stuff and glad to have come accross this web site as it may just offer some answers for me. Maybe I can even pass on some info. here (someday. lol).

here's another.... does anyone know what "www-ldap-gw" mean or is? that's another that's popped up in the "Event Information" coloumn (along with "ICMP Ping" "Port3765(TCP" blah blah blah).

I don't know if it's of any help in understanding the akamaitechnologies.com thing, but I can give you a source IP for some of the one's that have visited me. here's one for the most commonly used to Ping me today: SOURCE IP: 193.108.155.115
HOST NAME: a193-108-155-115.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com
thanks

[ttickzz]

Sygate is the best of the free firewalls out there.

I could not agree more Oversight. Sygate is definitely the best which has been made for Windows. Norton and Kerio sucks too.

[spahkle]

Good Gawd, leave old ass threads alone. It's easy to do. First look at the timestamp associated with the threads origin (hint: upper left hand corner of the first post in the thread)

Now that it's been revived....it's....probably....on...it's....way... .to..../dev/null.....as...I....type....this....


Choo....Choo....

[gagann]

deploy.akamaitechnologies.com RESOLVED as www.fbi.gov

Hey i want to know something about deploy.akamaitechnologies.com
Why do you people thinq is a cache farm ? Why studies show that deploy.akamaitechnologies.com is a fbi.gov partner?
Google akamaitechnologies and you will see what i am talking about ! Who said is a cache farm ?

[converge]

Tiny Personal was my favorite.... it's the only free windows fw that I could stand, although I think the newer version is kinda flukey and they want you to pay for it. There is already a thread somewhere on the boards re: this, iirc.

[ck3k]

what`s the best :P like in a lot of options ... i tried zonealarm and after i allowed iexplorer to "connect to the internet" no further connection was brought to my attention .. a firewall for home use .. to work on windows .i read another topic with almost same question but i dont have a old box and all that ...i tried one that always kept a connection to some "update manager" and that i hate cause i consider that to be spyware and when you got a damn message " new version available ...oh damn ..."you called home?" Some advice ?

As for a win-box home firewall, i use one called kerio personal firewall, works for me. I got zonealarm on another machine, they seem to do fine.