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What's wrong with XP's built-in firewall?
AdIyhc:
.....You put them back on the Windows firewall and hey, presto, no security problems and no annoyances. Good lord, if *Microsoft* can do it, why can't anyone else? :P
Speaking of excessive paranoia and cookies, has anyone ever actually had a problem with them?........
-JavaJones (October 05, 2006, 07:19 PM)
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All the extras 3rd party firewalls add is to justify the yearly subscriptions. More functions, more bugs/crashes.
As for cookies, I turn off cookies unless I need them and clear them upon exit. It isn't that hard/troublesome since browsers nowadays can do this automatically.
app103:
He had a way of destroying computers just by using them for five minutes, and not actually do anything wrong. I could watch him and he wouldn't be doing anything I wouldn't do and all sorts of error messages would pop up or it would crash.
-Deozaan (October 05, 2006, 02:00 AM)
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That's known as Negative Electrostatic Charisma (NEC). It's when you are cursed by the computer gods and freaky things happen that shouldn't...with no reasonable explanation.
My dad says it comes from doing something that offends the computer gods and in retaliation they put this curse upon you for the rest of your life, and to all your offspring (it becomes genetic).
It's the only explanation I can give for why pc's running win2k have a BSOD if my daughter gets within a foot of them....and why portable CD players go crazy and spin disks at hyperspeed when she uses them....and digital cameras shorting out when she turns them on.
I was almost believing it skipped a generation and then remembered how I was stuck using a P1 that said "NEC Ready" on the case for 3 years (oh, the irony!), because my P3 died immediately after I hit the backspace key in notepad. :-[
Oh, yeah...and my dad...
Windows forgot his pass was supposed to work, for a day...locked him out of the pc...then remembered the next and worked just fine. Only 1 of a series of weird experiences I have seen happen to my dad.
Deozaan:
He had a way of destroying computers just by using them for five minutes, and not actually do anything wrong. I could watch him and he wouldn't be doing anything I wouldn't do and all sorts of error messages would pop up or it would crash.
-Deozaan (October 05, 2006, 02:00 AM)
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That's known as Negative Electrostatic Charisma (NEC). It's when you are cursed by the computer gods and freaky things happen that shouldn't...with no reasonable explanation.
My dad says it comes from doing something that offends the computer gods and in retaliation they put this curse upon you for the rest of your life, and to all your offspring (it becomes genetic).-app103 (October 06, 2006, 04:27 AM)
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This is the Shawn from the podcast #2, whose first computer memory was looking up porn on the internet, so. . . Maybe that angered the computer gods. :-\ :-\ :-\ :tellme:
Carol Haynes:
Speaking of excessive paranoia and cookies, has anyone ever actually had a problem with them? Tons and tons of applications detect and warn you about them, lots of people have things set to block them, etc, etc. and yet I've only found annoyance and less functional sites in doing that, and never had a problem just allowing them. I'm all for protecting privacy, but this stuff has never seemed like a major invasion to me. Maybe it's just because I'm not surfing naughty sites though. ;)
-JavaJones (October 05, 2006, 07:19 PM)
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You are probably right on cookies - however if you want to keep the number of them down to a dull roar (ie. just the useful ones that keep you logged in to useful site) use CrapCleaner to remove your cookies regularly. You can specify which ones to keep and it works with IE and Firefox without problems - it will also let you clear up a lot of other rubbish too. Worth a look to keep things tidy.
kimmchii:
Speaking of excessive paranoia and cookies, has anyone ever actually had a problem with them? Tons and tons of applications detect and warn you about them, lots of people have things set to block them, etc, etc. and yet I've only found annoyance and less functional sites in doing that, and never had a problem just allowing them. I'm all for protecting privacy, but this stuff has never seemed like a major invasion to me. Maybe it's just because I'm not surfing naughty sites though. ;)
-JavaJones (October 05, 2006, 07:19 PM)
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You are probably right on cookies - however if you want to keep the number of them down to a dull roar (ie. just the useful ones that keep you logged in to useful site) use CrapCleaner to remove your cookies regularly. You can specify which ones to keep and it works with IE and Firefox without problems - it will also let you clear up a lot of other rubbish too. Worth a look to keep things tidy.
-Carol Haynes (October 06, 2006, 06:00 AM)
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or just use a HOSTS file, all those cookies will be blocked, no need cleaning.
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