Precautions to prevent Hacking in Sify Broadband

[krish_88]

Hi everyone tell me your views how to be protected from Hacking, viruses and which ones the best antivirus etc.........

 

[boygr8]

I use trend micro's Pc-cillin Internet Security 2005 (not the one provided by Sify) plus Sygate Firewall

 

[Sushubh]

i am using zonealarm security suite.

 

[Fred]

I use Free AVG anti virus and a very old version of zonealarm

 

[inetbum]

Read Sify's document on securing your PC on their site www.sifybroadband.com . It's called "Prevent PC sharing".

 

[GAURAV7777]

ya just disable file and printer sharing in ur lan properties and use a good firewall like zone in the highest settings

 

[Sushubh]

the problem is there if u have setup a local lan. u cannot disable file sharing in that case coz it disables them for u as well... better idea is to use a password for your user logins and disable guest sharing.

 

[power]

use any free firewall and make a rule to block incoming connection to ports 135-139,445,1025-1026,500 Tcp as well as udp ( all udp not needed but this ports are of no use anyway) from sify network ..if u dont want to run firewall(if u find it annoying) then start-->run-->secpol.msc and make new policy in ip security policies to block icmp ( if u want to ) as weelll as above ports and u will be safe enough if u dont run any server programs.......best thing about ipsec is it doesnt use any extra memory bcoz its service is already kept running even if u dont enable it ( u can disable of u want) . This is good for less config pc's for win2k Disable $ sharesDisable DCOMDisable NETBIOSDisable netbios name exposingthis arent needed if u block above ports anyway

 

[coolbuddy_79]

browse sensibly with a safe browser like Opera or Firefox...using IE is the invitation to every problem

 

[hitman]

Ya don't use IE until u need it badly. Use some nice antivirus software like kaspersky and a decent firewall like mcafee or zonealarm. Make sure in the firewall do the setting to "do not trust my lan" . If u wanna add access to any lan pc than u can add tht ip in the allowed list. It works this way in mcafee but not sure abt zonealarm.