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> >  I had avoided firewalls like Black Ice and Zone Alarm because of the
> >complications with online racing/quaking etc.

> If you only knew! Most attacks on web servers come from exactly your
> type of comprimised box!

> I do not know about  Black Ice but Zone Alarm will allow you in the
> security settings to add "local computers" for online ***, you
> should be able to add any ip address of any other computer/computers
> you are working with and they will bypass the firewall...

> It is PURE sucide to leave ANY computer hooked to the net unprotected!
> Even dialup accounts are hit constantly by people looking for
> exploitable boxes. If you only knew how many programs are running
> around on the net, automatically looking for boxes.. finding them and
> then emailing their findings to the perp who sent them out in the
> first place..

> The net is VERY insecure and much of this is due to cable modems and
> dsl connected boxes which sit there unprotected...

> Get a firewall. use it like your life depended on it!

> Your life may not.. but the health of the Internet does!!!!!
> "Shortfork"
> All Aviation FlightLine OnLine
> http://www.racesimcentral.net/

>DSL, which is dedicated bandwidth.

> I may have a problem myself. Outlook Express has been very slow lately, it
> runs fine one minute and the next it crawls. I was just exploring my C
> drive, and found all the file.chk folders that I had not seen before.
There
> were like 19 of these things, each about 4kb in size. I started viewing
them
> with notepad, and they appear to be transcripts from newsgroups I have
> visited in the past, very strange. Don't know if it's the trouble I am
> having with OE that is generating these file.chk folders or what.
> What do you guys recommend for a good firewall that doesn't cause too much
> grief for online ***, zone alarm?

> --
> Don Burnette
> D Burnette in N4

> Some people do nothing wrong.
> The problem is, they do nothing.
> And THAT is wrong.

> > >  I had avoided firewalls like Black Ice and Zone Alarm because of the
> > >complications with online racing/quaking etc.

> > If you only knew! Most attacks on web servers come from exactly your
> > type of comprimised box!

> > I do not know about  Black Ice but Zone Alarm will allow you in the
> > security settings to add "local computers" for online ***, you
> > should be able to add any ip address of any other computer/computers
> > you are working with and they will bypass the firewall...

> > It is PURE sucide to leave ANY computer hooked to the net unprotected!
> > Even dialup accounts are hit constantly by people looking for
> > exploitable boxes. If you only knew how many programs are running
> > around on the net, automatically looking for boxes.. finding them and
> > then emailing their findings to the perp who sent them out in the
> > first place..

> > The net is VERY insecure and much of this is due to cable modems and
> > dsl connected boxes which sit there unprotected...

> > Get a firewall. use it like your life depended on it!

> > Your life may not.. but the health of the Internet does!!!!!
> > "Shortfork"
> > All Aviation FlightLine OnLine
> > http://www.racesimcentral.net/

> You can view all tasks running with the System Information tool that
> comes with Windows.
> --
> eFalcon keyboard chart in PDF format
> http://storm.prohosting.com/~nos146/ef4_keys.zip

> For running processes? No, not with System Information tool. Only NT has
> this type of utility built into the O.S.

> > You can view all tasks running with the System Information tool that
> > comes with Windows.
> > --
> > eFalcon keyboard chart in PDF format
> > http://storm.prohosting.com/~nos146/ef4_keys.zip

>get at least a 1/2 dozen hits a day. I don't race online so I've got it set
>to paranoid and haven't been hacked yet!

>Best $30 I've spent for the PC!!!

>Jay J

>> Dave, are you running cable or dsl? (I recently switched from cable to
>> DSL and got much better latency results for racing online in N4).
>> Cable is shared and bogs down more than DSL, which is dedicated
>> bandwidth.

>> I have a Linksys Cable/DSL router which allows you to setup a private
>> LAN behind an NAT (network address translation) firewall.  About the
>> only thing you'd have to worry about would be trojans "phoning home"
>> but for the most part, it cuts out a bunch of trouble.  it works great
>> for N4 online as well, but I haven't tried hosting any races or
>> anything.  The router does support 1 PC in what they call the "DMZ"
>> but basically it's a 2nd internet ip address that is NOT behind the
>> NAT.

>> I've used black ice for a LONG time and while it's still installed on
>> my PC, it hasn't uttered a peep since the DSL arrangement was setup.
>> You don't really even need this stuff with NAT, but I'm paranoid :)

>> Email me if you have any technical questions and I'll help you out.
>> Zone Alarm is ok, but Black Ice has 4 settings - trusting, cautious,
>> nervous and paranoid - you don't concern yourself with ports and
>> stuff.  It also shuts down trojans phoning home....

>> >  I had avoided firewalls like Black Ice and Zone Alarm because of the
>> >complications with online racing/quaking etc.  But lately my computer has
>> >really bogged down, I finally caved in and installed Zone Alarm.  I have

>PING
>> >commands to a server.  I'm assuming a DNS attack.
>> >  My computer had been running very slow...I thought F1cs2k was really
>> >getting doggy..almost uninstalled it...but the 30 or so copies of a
>program
>> >on my system seem to be the trouble.
>> >  I also think he sicked a virus on my system because a certain file
>keeps
>> >popping up and replicating itself.  VXSD.exe
>> >  Once ZA was up I had 5 alerts in just a few minutes.  The ZA log showed
>> >about two pages of ping commands...Hopefully I've shut that down....
>> >  Cable and DSL users....should consider some sort of firewall.  and
>check
>> >out a program called Process Viewer 2000, Jan Kohl of the uspits told me
>> >about that one.  It shows lots more programs running than what the
>> >ctrl-alt-delete does.
>> >dave henrie

>On Sat, 05 May 2001 11:44:50 GMT, George Lewis

>>DSL, which is dedicated bandwidth.

>Not quite true.. DSL is also shared.. You have only "so much"
>bandwidth to work with and you will see slowdowns as more users are
>online.. *where* the bottleneck will be will depend on your provider
>but trust me, as a long time DSL user.. more users online and using
>the system.. means more lag and less data flow..

>"Shortfork"
>All Aviation FlightLine OnLine
>http://aafo.com

>Ok all I am surely convinced that a "FireWall" is extremely important to
>use for me being a cable user. Now I need help Net'Gurus! Since I run
>N4 via OpenGL I can not!! Alt-Tab when ZoneAlarm asks if this IP is
>ok to use {not a quote via ZA....lol} So how can I give the aok on this
>via OpenGL and No! I will Not change out of OpenGl via N4 is kicks
>***for me & I love using it!!
>Plus I have 'Zone Alarm Pro' but is 'Tiny Personal Firewall' be better?
>All Help Will Be Appreciated! Also "Jan Kohl" what do you think?
>Tia.... Thom_j.
>P.S. "Phil Lee" How'd you get N4 & GPL via Tiny Personal Firewall?
>Was it easy and please read the above Phil..Tia Again..

>| After reading this thread I downloaded Tiny Personal Firewall last night.
>| It has been working well so far.  I have raced online with GPL and N4
>today
>| for example.  You can download it here:
>|
>| http://www.racesimcentral.net/
>|
>| An interesting site to visit once you have installed your firewall is
>here:
>|
>| http://www.racesimcentral.net/
>|
>| Run Shields Up to see if you are vulnerable to hacking.  Also the comments
>| on personal firewalls that Steve Gibson makes are very interesting.  He
>| recommends using either Zone Alarm or Tiny Personal Firewall.  I have
>tried
>| using Zone Alarm with GPL before but without success.  As I said above,
>the
>| Tiny firewall works fine.
>|
>| Cheers
>|
>| Phil
>|
>|
>|


>| > I may have a problem myself. Outlook Express has been very slow lately,
>it
>| > runs fine one minute and the next it crawls. I was just exploring my C
>| > drive, and found all the file.chk folders that I had not seen before.
>| There
>| > were like 19 of these things, each about 4kb in size. I started viewing
>| them
>| > with notepad, and they appear to be transcripts from newsgroups I have
>| > visited in the past, very strange. Don't know if it's the trouble I am
>| > having with OE that is generating these file.chk folders or what.
>| > What do you guys recommend for a good firewall that doesn't cause too
>much
>| > grief for online ***, zone alarm?
>| >
>| > --
>| > Don Burnette
>| > D Burnette in N4
>| >
>| > Some people do nothing wrong.
>| > The problem is, they do nothing.
>| > And THAT is wrong.
>| >




>| > >
>| > > >  I had avoided firewalls like Black Ice and Zone Alarm because of
>the
>| > > >complications with online racing/quaking etc.
>| > >
>| > > If you only knew! Most attacks on web servers come from exactly your
>| > > type of comprimised box!
>| > >
>| > > I do not know about  Black Ice but Zone Alarm will allow you in the
>| > > security settings to add "local computers" for online ***, you
>| > > should be able to add any ip address of any other computer/computers
>| > > you are working with and they will bypass the firewall...
>| > >
>| > > It is PURE sucide to leave ANY computer hooked to the net unprotected!
>| > > Even dialup accounts are hit constantly by people looking for
>| > > exploitable boxes. If you only knew how many programs are running
>| > > around on the net, automatically looking for boxes.. finding them and
>| > > then emailing their findings to the perp who sent them out in the
>| > > first place..
>| > >
>| > > The net is VERY insecure and much of this is due to cable modems and
>| > > dsl connected boxes which sit there unprotected...
>| > >
>| > > Get a firewall. use it like your life depended on it!
>| > >
>| > > Your life may not.. but the health of the Internet does!!!!!
>| > > "Shortfork"
>| > > All Aviation FlightLine OnLine
>| > > http://www.racesimcentral.net/
>| >
>| >
>|
>|