Greetings, folks!
This was on a list I subscribe to and I thought it might be useful. If
you don't want to bother with it, just delete this.
Best wishes,
Eve
--
Eve S. Gregory, Director
Virginia Foundation for Archaeological Research, Inc.
http://home.earthlink.net/~vfar1/
James City County, Virginia, VAGenWeb page & James City List
http://www.rootsweb.com/~vajamesc/
Surry County, Virginia, VAGenWeb page & Surry List
http://www.rootsweb.com/~vasurry/
Surry County, Virginia, Historical Society
http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaschsm/
"a free program to set up an "ersatz firewall" on the PC, which will
stop ALL attempts at hacking from others."
"Here's the URL for the utility:
http://www.zonelabs.com
ZoneAlarm is an Internet security utility and firewall that detects all
Internet access on your computer and controls which programs have access
to the
Internet.
Version 2.0.26 combines many improvements to ZoneAlarm's capabilities
and
usability, including a complete local firewall with easy-to-use security
level
settings and advanced local and Internet zone capabilities.
ZoneAlarm works with most types of TCP/IP connections, including
Ethernet LAN,
DSL, cable modem and dial-up connections.
Basically, what ZoneAlarm does is this: If it is running when you
connect to
the Internet/Web, via Netscape, MSIE, Eudora, MS Outlook, etc., AND if a
remote
computer tries to access your computer to look for data or to place
something
on your system, ZoneAlarm, if already set properly, will deny such
access if
you have configured No Access, or will ask you what to do if you have
configured it to do this.
It takes up very little RAM and Resources. You might run it for weeks
before
you get the first attempt by a remote computer to access your system; on
the
other hand, it might be the next time you use your web browser. You
just never
know. "