is my system safe ?

is my system safe ?

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is my system safe ? leon 07-26-2006
`--> Re: is my system safe ? Sebastian Gotts...07-26-2006
Posted by leon on July 26, 2006, 1:15 pm
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I run winxp home, no file sharing,irc,p2p,windows messenger. Only protocol
loaded is tcp. About 25 processes running.
Security centre, automatic updates, fast user switching, secondary logon,
ipsec, system restore, remote desktop, sddp,and universal plug & play, and
some others are disabled.
I run winxp firewall with no exceptions but allow icmp echo and outgoings.
Avast virus free running and this is the only app i allow to automatically
update all other updates i take care of manually.
Mailwasher takes care of email.
Ie and xp all up to date.
Tried opera/firefox but found them to be crap.
Scan from time to time with Ewido.
Thats about it, so am i safe, or should i get a router or better software
firewall.



Posted by Sebastian Gottschalk on July 26, 2006, 1:27 pm
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leon wrote:

> Mailwasher takes care of email.

Very bad. That shows that your using an unencrypted connection to your
mail server. And it's also way less efficient than good Bayesian filters
integrated in good eMail clients like Thunderbird, Opera M2 or Eudora.

> Ie and xp all up to date.

Doesn't matter. IE with all patches applied has 60+ vulnerabilities,
with lots of them being critical.

There are also some known unpatched vulnerabilities in Windows XP.

> Tried opera/firefox but found them to be crap.

Doesn't matter. IE has never been intended to be used as a webbrowser,
and no configuration will help.

> Scan from time to time with Ewido.

Doesn't matter.

> Thats about it, so am i safe, or should i get a router

Why? If you don't need routing, why using a router?

> or better software firewall.

Windows Firewall is a pretty good host-based packet filter, no need to
resort to a lousy one with a lot of crap added.

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