Need an overview

system · 2006-09-09T06:17:24.000Z

Spiritsongs,
You made this comment:

“Since you have SpywareBlaster, it would be best to
uninstall Spybot because : 1) Its Updates MAY “reverse”
some of SpywareBlaster’s “protection” ; 2 ) Its quality
has fallen off recently .”

I have had both applications for quite a while. How would I know if Spybot was reversing Spywareblaster’s protection? Usually Spybot doesn’t find anything anyway, but many seem to say it is a good app to have. ??? ???

I also use Ewido to scan once a week.

Ro Ro 8)

system · 2006-09-09T09:20:15.000Z

I used to use Spybot, it is still installed but mot updated and used.
I got tired of having problems with the update.
Also it uses a lots of CPU when scanning, freezes my over heating CPU.

So I use lavasofts one and sometimes scan with a2 online scanner too. and kaspersky online scan etc.

I never liked teatimer taking so much resources and bad popups.

Bluesman · 2006-09-09T11:17:04.000Z

I Mazza I post:1:

Since I have been hearing comodo is so good I was wondering if anyone has opinions before I download it. Thanks.

Comodo Firewall is a GREAT firewall, and it works very well with Avast! No problems here at all.

system · 2006-09-09T21:34:14.000Z

Hi Ro Ro :

  The best way to know IF Spybot's Updates are 
 "disabling" some of SpywareBlaster's "Items" is
  to go to SpywareBlaster's GUI AFTER a Spybot
  Update and see if it says something more than
 "0 items have protection disabled" in either of the
   top 2 lines !?

Lisandro · 2006-09-09T22:52:43.000Z

Spiritsongs post:13:

The best way to know IF Spybot’s Updates are “disabling” some of SpywareBlaster’s “Items”

Is there any way to prevent this to occur? :-\

system · 2006-09-10T03:38:49.000Z

it doesn’t do that on mine.

system · 2006-09-10T05:12:21.000Z

Hi Tech :

  The answer to your question may be on the Spybot
   Support Forums at : http://forums.spybot.info .
  I vaguely remember the topic being discussed, but do
  NOt remember if it was on Spybot's forum and/or the
  SpywareBlaster forum at Wilders or both !?

TedNelly · 2006-09-10T07:37:07.000Z

I to have noticed some small glitches between Spybot and Spywareblaster
no biggie really. If on the very odd occasion S&D causes a problem, I just re-enable the total protection in SpywareBlaster and re-immunize in S&D works ok for me.
I usually check for updates for them both at the same time.

DavidR · 2006-09-10T11:54:31.000Z

I have never seen it do that on my system either and I have used both for over three years.

system · 2006-09-10T13:41:44.000Z

I have neither noticed anything. Sure I have seen sometimes that there are unprotected items, but not sure what caused them.
Only, SpyBot’s update system, sometimes it hangs and I need to stop the program from Task Manager is really annoying. Plus it takes too much CPU when scanning and that teatimer that is not even running now, was also a resource hog.

Has been at least a month since I used SpyBot last time, might take a look to see if it is behaving. It used to save me by letting stupid Kazaa from startup in something like 3 years ago. Then it was usefull.

And then MS antispyware deleted all my songs I had downloaded, hehe. I had Kazaa uninstalled, but the songs were in that directory, so it quaranteened it or something, but I could not get them back. What can one say of usefullness of that MS antispyware beta, if it quaranteened a folder with no programs there left. Might have gotten better, but not running it either.

Lisandro · 2006-09-10T13:51:21.000Z

Spiritsongs post:16:

I vaguely remember the topic being discussed, but do NOt remember if it was on Spybot’s forum and/or the SpywareBlaster forum at Wilders or both !?

I couldn’t find anything…

Jarmo P post:19:

I have neither noticed anything. Sure I have seen sometimes that there are unprotected items, but not sure what caused them.

Look the screenshot.

Jarmo P post:19:

Only, SpyBot’s update system, sometimes it hangs and I need to stop the program from Task Manager is really annoying. Plus it takes too much CPU when scanning and that teatimer that is not even running now, was also a resource hog.

There is a setting to use low CPU, as you may know…

Lisandro · 2006-09-10T13:55:34.000Z

I found the item missed…
OverTure tracing cookie… But I’m not sure which application is ‘disabling’ the item ??? :

system · 2006-09-10T13:57:01.000Z

I know that Tech, SpywareBlaster is a nice program.
Not so very much needed since I don’t run IE oftenl but sometimes I have to for online scans etc. But a valued one anyways.
Protects my Fox from eevil cookies at least a bit.

DavidR · 2006-09-10T14:08:21.000Z

All you need to do is click the Enable All Protection to rectify this should you find any disabled items.

If you are doing regular SpywareBlaster updates you should notice it and be able to correct it easily.

system · 2006-09-10T14:52:30.000Z

In my opinion, Comodo is better than Jetico. Jetico is very difficult to configure and, in my case, blocked my ADSL connection without any question. I uninstalled it but still without connection (maybe some system file was damaged). So I had to format my pc. Now I have Comodo and it works very well.

system · 2006-09-10T15:13:01.000Z

Well, fernando, there are horror stories like that when having installed “security” software. I have not tried Jetico, nor intend, cause I am happy with kerio 2.
It could be good but not easy.

On the other hand I tried Comodo, out of curiosity. Needed to know why all are speaking of it in wilderssecurity forum, here too.
It is only, I have a netphone program that needs to allow all UDP traffic to both incoming and outgoing connections to a certain IP range for all ports.
So Comodo was not working out of box. And there was no way I found to allow those ports only to that application.

I sure checked comodo forum and all I could before I decided to uninstall it. It did not also have a configuration file like kerio 2 that is a simple packet filter with no bloat.
Comodo used windows registry to store all the rules.

Kerio 2, even 4 when it is trusted maybe, allow to make rules for any app with no difficulties. Sygate does that too, but it has a problem with avast’s local proxies in loosing outbound control, other than that it is a nice no worrysome firewall.

Lisandro · 2006-09-10T15:44:02.000Z

DavidR post:23:

All you need to do is click the Enable All Protection to rectify this should you find any disabled items.

Then, after booting or closing SpywareBlaster, and the protection is disabled again.
Something is disabling it…

DavidR post:23:

If you are doing regular SpywareBlaster updates you should notice it and be able to correct it easily.

Not a permanent correction as you can see…

system · 2006-09-10T16:00:21.000Z

Jarmo P post:25:

Kerio 2, even 4 when it is trusted maybe, allow to make rules for any app with no difficulties. Sygate does that too, but it has a problem with avast’s local proxies in loosing outbound control, other than that it is a nice no worrysome firewall.

As I use to say, enjoying a firewall or not is a very personal question I’ve already heard about Kerio. It seems to be good firewall, but because comodo has been working so well (until now) and because the “trauma” caused by Jetico ;D, I do not intend to change it .

system · 2006-09-10T16:14:55.000Z

and because the "trauma" caused by Jetico Grin, I do not intend to change it .

I can understand that and what i saw Comodo seemed to be a decent firewall if you don’t have many needs for programs to respond as “server”.
My post was to calm down this hype and tell, other fw’s, they don’t have problems running software unlimited.
You could be happy with that one.

Edit
I would not recommend kerio 4 as a replacement. It is a firewall of problems that never have been fixed, or will be I guess

system · 2006-09-11T03:10:19.000Z

cool, I have about 8 days before everything runs out, so I’ll give Comodo a try.

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