Archive for the 'firewall security' Category

Against my better judgement; I’ve updated all software to their suggestions, I’ve downloaded all up grades, I’ve disabled all “Ad-ons”, I even completely disabled all of my security systems (including my firewall, which sucks for me). I’m so pissed off at Yahoo that I’m willing to close my email account that I’ve had for over [...]

I’m attempting to launch the Tor browser at my school however I come across a problem on connecting, not letting me open the browser. I start Tor normally and have “My firewall….. Certain Ports” checked (ports 80, 443, 9001, and 9030) and also I have “My ISP blocks…. Tor network” checked. But, being new to [...]

If I have to read one more anti virus review I think my head is going to explode. This is what i am considering. For Anti virus microsoft essentials, for malware removal malware-bytes free edition and for a firewall comodo. Would this setup be sufficient for protecting my computer.

hi all, i am not a computer expert and i am worried some one is hacking my computer and can see what I am browsing and doing on my desktop. Is this possible? I some times use a vpn so am I vulnerable while using vpn? my system is windows xp sp3 (genuine copy) I [...]

While browsing websites , i have come across that certain sites automatically turns off the firewall protection and Phishing protection in Quickheal Total Security. Then my computer starts having startup problems. How to prevent these setting to change automatically . As i have to visit sites in software searches. Please suggest.

my instructor told me to learn more about security (having low grades in that field lately). and my friend asked me while I’m reading, “a firewall is like a guard who checks packets that passes through the net right?, then what about an antivirus?”.. kinda dunno what to say about that, but whats on my [...]

So, my windows firewall is on, but I want my avast internet security to be my main firewall. Normally when people change antivirus, the firewall of the antivirus is automatically changed to the main one isn’t it? When I disable the windows firewall, it doesn’t say that the firewall now is the one from avast. [...]

NOTE: the weird thing History tab on MSE says at 2:56pm a trojan by the same name TrojanDownloader:Win32/Carberp.C was removed but 8 min later, at 3:04pm the very same trojan was “Allowed”. Clicking on that just says “Remove this software immediately” but nothing is clickable to do so except the “Get more info about this” [...]

I got the Win 7 Security 2012 virus on my laptop and got it off with Malwarebytes but now my Windows firewall and defender are turned off and won’t turn back on. Every single time I try to turn my firewall back on, I get the 0×80070424 error code. I have tried going to Services [...]

I have subscription to AVG internet security 2012, GData internet security 2012 (3 computers), Mcafee Internet security (3 computers), Outpost pro firewall (3 computers), Avira secuirty suite (5 computers) . And I have only 3 computers. What to do with remaining subscriptions? Is there anyway to get refund?