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Since this month, when the European servers suffered a massive hacker attack left me a strange feeling.

In general there was virtually “radio silence”. Only I know that specific circumstance means security. And that is very worrying.

Because, if servers in the world, endure, ie no loopholes by which they can be “invaded” what is left to us ordinary users? And worse when we are not well informed to be alert.

We are at the expense of the instruments with which we have to defend ourselves in this unequal struggle. Caution where sail on the Web, eyes wide open with what we download, P2P applications, etc.

In these times, the barrier of a good Antivirus and Firewall is no longer a concrete wall, and never can be, because, again, if the servers with tremendous insufficient hardware firewall, what can we do?

How many times many have needed to format the PC, because:

a) works slow.
b) error messages.
c) Delay Start.
d) Programs that do not respond.

Thus many more causes.

And have not you ever doubt formatted to be infected by a virus, trojan, malware, spyware and as many more?

And how we feel when our Antivirus not update? Are not we become a very serious concern, suspecting what a virus is blocking this critical process?

I understand that, today, business software developers that help us in computer security, knowing how to bridge that question (I believe, or is it an error in judgment?), Is it an idea to think about a tool excessive "testing "to see if the connection to the server program from which you take the database updates of virus is functioning normally. Is an idea fractious?

For did not exist a more troubling to manually update for a couple of days? Personally I understand that this problem, updates, end up becoming a neurosis while persist.

We do not know if:

    • There are viruses on our PC.
      Two. - There spyware, etc…
      Three. - Our Internet connection is lean.
      April. - Automatic connection lost server antivirus.

Therefore propose that Avast, consider this tool for your customers, so that way, knowing that we should aim our guns against.

Or am I wrong?

Sorry my English is bad

Thanks

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If someone can hack into the Pentagon computers, the average home computer user doesn’t have a chance. We just have to do our best to protect ourselves from the not so competent hackers.

The link below is to a website that will probe your computer to see how open to attack it really is. This is a trusted website, that I have used for at least ten years, maybe more.

I would suggest having all service ports probed.

https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1dkyd2

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That link I posted didn’t work for me. Here is a link to the Home Page.

http://www.grc.com/intro.htm

Click on Shields Up, and on the next page scroll down until you find Shields Up.

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If someone can hack into the Pentagon computers, the average home computer user doesn't have a chance.
well, those who are able to do that probably find nothing of interest in the average users computer.... i hope. ;D

OBS: when using shields up, it is the first firewall on the network that is tested
meaning if you are behind a ISP box or router with firewall then thats the one tested and not your software firewall

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My router is provided by AT&T. I can’t turn it off, even though I can find the place to enable, and disable it.

I would like to know the results of the test just using the Avast firewall, if someone would be willing to try it.

My router firewall shows stealth mode, with all boxes green.

What I don’t understand is Avast is showing that it’s blocking the same traffic as the router firewall.

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I’m not behind a NAT router but I’m using Comodo FW in full stealth mode.
All green here. 8)

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Thank You.

I’m glad it’s all green. I use that site to check my firewall anytime I get a new operating system, or when I reload the old one.

A friend of mine checked his, and there was one red box that showed an open port. You can click on each box, and it will tell you what it is, and what it is used for. We decided the open port was being used by his desktop computer to communicate with his laptop, during boot up.

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A friend of mine checked his, and there was one red box that showed an open port.
and what result does he get if he turn off the firewall?
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I don’t know. we never tried it without a firewall. It would be interesting to see the results with no firewall.

I know a lot of those ports are open and communicating, because I can see it happening in Network Communications in the Avast firewall.

Those ports are just not responding to the requests made by the probes at grc.com. I don’t know if they would respond without a firewall.