Originally posted by lechtard
I don't use an AV - the reason being that I have never got hit
with a virus, and if I did I have everything backed up to where I
don't have to worry about it.
I admire your confidence. Let's hope that none of your data is
subject to trojans etc.
How would you know if you have a virus if you haven't noticed
the payload or scanned for it's existence.?
A recent virus doing the rounds disguises itself as a SVCHOST
process. Pretty hard to detect by eye.
At least you should ensure your backups aren't harbouring any
nasty surprises, should the worst come to the worst.
I'm not trying to scare you or blow this out of proportion.
It's just imho, AV, and firewalls are important aspects of PC
security
Originally posted by lechtard
....... and just because you are getting pings don't mean
anything, the biggest part of the pings you usually get are from
your isp doing a scan to see if you are running anything you
should'nt be, like an FTP .. and also NIS gives false information -
so if it said you were being pinged I would'nt believe it ..
Agreed ISP's do perform these PING tests, but the level of traffic
I referred to was inconsitent with anything experienced before.
I've had the connection established for over 2 years.
That was the 1st time it's really been hit hard.
I also agree that NIS can mislead
, but the problem didn't lie
there.
The traffic was from the WAN hitting my firewall/router and being
denied access to my PC/LAN, thus making NIS irrelevant.
I regularly check my (hardware) firewall logs, and see many
references to "probable TCPFin scan" "Port probes" etc. I feel
happy that these do not make it as far as my PC, thus saving me
the worry of false positives, and ****-ups by NIS.