Windows security

H to everybody! I have heard that windows 98 is one from the most vulnerable OSs. What can i do so that i can have i little more security?And also if anyone can tell me wich is the best firewall.Thank you

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Originally posted here by justiceman
H to everybody! I have heard that windows 98 is one from the most vulnerable OSs. What can i do so that i can have i little more security?And also if anyone can tell me wich is the best firewall.Thank you

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Umm, learn FreeBSD or OPENBSD. (hint: they aren't Microsoft based)

The best firewall is one that I like to refer to as the "destructive packet filterer". In short it consists of one moderately strong hand and a pair of tin snips. After wrapping the DPF around the point of entry (the ethernet cable connecting your computer to the Internet) squeeze with enough force to sever the line, thus giving you an incredible amount of security. This barrier is one that even the most seasoned hacker could not begin to breach. Problem solved.

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hehehe, Korp thats a good one, not practical but extremely secure :-)

umm the best firewall ive come across is tiny personal firewall, they dont have the free one anymore, but im sure that you can find it on a p2p service or something, its called pf2.exe and the filesize should be around 1.35 meg

another good one ive heard of is called agnitum outpost, im not sure of the download site for it but search google and you should come up with something

another one is called zonealarm, then theres also blackice, i tried blackice on xp but it messed my box up so im not too confident about that one

hope you have some fun with these :-)

Sygate is another great firewall that's free or pay. http://www.sygate.com

I have the pay version and haven't had a problem. Kerio is another great little firewall that is free. It's a lot like Tiny only improved.

An excellent free firewall is Look and Stop Lite. It's the basic firewall without bells and whistles but is rock solid. Unfortunately, it won't work with XP, at least not on this computer.

Chuck, I have sygate on my XP machine and it works just fine.

To justice: To keep your pc secure, just keep it updated with microsoft's security updates found at www.windowsupdate.com

As for Firewalls, heres a little comparison chart with basically every well-known firewall (Very detailed)

http://www.agnitum.com/php_scripts/compare2.php

Also, there is no best firewall, it just depends on what you need and dont want in a firewall.

Just to say that all the free firewalls mentioned will work correctly under Win 98/ME/XP.

btw Sygate does work correctly under WinXP - I've been using it for some time.

You could go out and buy a more secure version of Windows...

talking about an oximoron..

what about just using windows98 (se?) with full updates and using a firewall box infront of it..

a simple linux (or BSD ) based firewall can be setup on a 486 or above..
and I've tested a p75 based firewall on a good 100Mbit line, and it took all the traffic and had spare processor time to do some folding..

just try it..
http://www.freesco.org/
http://www.dubbele.com/
http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/cstein/
http://www.jimweller.net/jim/lfw/
http://linux.tuwien.ac.at/firewall.html

etc..

i do think chuck was right, Sygate good as a firewall , and thanks for the link JINX, that's quiet nice :) ... i also got Sygate on my laptop and havent got any problem yet ( i hope not ) .. i was using Zone Alarm Pro, easier to use ( my opinion ).

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I have been pretty happy with Norton's personal filerwall. It works well on XP or 2000. I don't know about the older Win systems though.

"Hi to everybody! I have heard that windows 98 is one from the most
vulnerable OSs. What can i do so that i can have i little more security?"

I'd recommend getting something like folder guard:
http://www.winability.com/folderguard/

Windows98 has zero file security.........

Make sure you disable file sharing & Windows Network
Client it's like finger a Hacker could query it and learn
lots about your system workgroup/mac address of
your pc once they know that they have enough info
to attack it with a legion of exploits.

Backup your important data on cd or dvd!
If you don't backup your stuff it's only a
matter of time before your screwed

Keep up to date with Microsoft update just
be careful here because you need to double
check you got all the updates because MS
update is flakey and misses some

Make sure you Disable Password Caching

Disable password caching because Windows98 can remember your passwords
so you don't have to enter them again if someone Hacks your computer
they can find them over time the number of passwords accumulate alot so you
can see the security issue?!

Ok to disable click start/run
enter Regedit go to this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
Network.

Add a new DWord value called DisablePwdCaching.

Give a value of 1 to enable


Hope this helps :)

Doc

Microsoft Windows and security ???

Oh my God somebody stop me I am laughing
Help me.... AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!

"Disable password caching because Windows98 can remember your passwords
so you don't have to enter them again if someone Hacks your computer
they can find them over time the number of passwords accumulate alot so you
can see the security issue?! "



Hmmm, silly me here i thought Windows 9X didnt have remote log on options unless a trojan was installed or backdoor of some kind.

Get a couple anti virii produts and watch what you download, you can make 98 SE secure as hell that way, and also get a firewall.

Firewalls and Anti Virii make it very hard to do things people shouldnt be doing anyway. Windows 9X has no multi user abilities so someone actually "hacking" you is fairly small.

Zone Alarm - the free version works just fine. It just doesn't have all the bells and whistles