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[Melih]

This isnt so much as a question but a comment.  Melih, I really enjoy what you are doing here!  I mean you guys take the time out of your busy schedules, to be so tight with the members on your forum!  I am not aware of any company that does this keep it up

Thank you Info-Sec , really appreciate it.

Melih

[MorphOS REBOL]

I also want to say: Thank you Melih, and all members of this community, including the company and board, to have given me such a good time!

Prost!
 
(i.e. the old German way of saying cheers and I like you)

[Melih]

Prost!


Melih

[Francine]

I have a new anti-virus program and it apparently conflicts with McAlfee, which has been on my computer for quite a while, but I don't use.  I have been instructed to delete McAlfee, but when I try to do this, the computer freezes up.  I have tried to do this (1) through control panel/program remove, and (2)by clicking the button in the  message that tells me to remove it, but get a message "cannot go to that site," which I thought only referred to internet site, not things on your computer itself. 

[jasjetsuri]

can you turn off the proxy in NOD32 v3 without endangering the system? what are the side affects, warning messages etc?
thanks

[Info-Sec]

can you turn off the proxy in NOD32 v3 without endangering the system? what are the side affects, warning messages etc?
thanks

A proxy just masks you IP.  You can safely disable it as long as you have proper firewall protection.

[Leopard19]

can you turn off the proxy in NOD32 v3 without endangering the system? what are the side affects, warning messages etc?
thanks

the proxy in NOD32 is not a protection in itself, it's just there to allow anti-virus scanning of visited web pages in memory (or in a protected cache depending on the mode you choose; caching might be more convenient for video streaming) before they reach your browser. There's no side effect if you disable it  just it's better to scan web files that way than when it's too late, on the disk.

[Info-Sec]

the proxy in NOD32 is not a protection in itself, it's just there to allow anti-virus scanning of visited web pages in memory (or in a protected cache depending on the mode you choose; caching might be more convenient for video streaming) before they reach your browser. There's no side effect if you disable it  just it's better to scan web files that way than when it's too late, on the disk.

Odd, im not familiar with v 3.0 as i still use 2.7, NOD 32 scans HTTP ports, and I wasnt aware NOD 32 used a proxy to do so.

[jasjetsuri]

the proxy in NOD32 is not a protection in itself, it's just there to allow anti-virus scanning of visited web pages in memory (or in a protected cache depending on the mode you choose; caching might be more convenient for video streaming) before they reach your browser. There's no side effect if you disable it  just it's better to scan web files that way than when it's too late, on the disk.

ive heard that if you change the option so it doenst act as a proxy then when you boot up each time NOD32 will report a warning to turn on the option as its quite important as you mentioned above. Is this true?
and im running comodo firewall so no worries there.

[Leopard19]

ive heard that if you change the option so it doenst act as a proxy then when you boot up each time NOD32 will report a warning to turn on the option as its quite important as you mentioned above. Is this true?
and im running comodo firewall so no worries there.

I don't run NOD32. I only tried it. but I run Avast that has a very similar feature. So I have no idea about that NOD32 warning. Don't deactivate the proxy, CFP doesn't replace it and doesn't do the same job at all. For instance you might be prompted by Def+ to allow a download, you will click yes, now what? say your download is infected, you'll be happy that your NOD32 proxy has intercepted it before it got saved to hard disk, ok? Hope that clarifies it a bit more for you now.

ps the NOD32 warning is just warning, what matters is that you understand what the proxy does.

[n1sh1k4ze]

Hello, I'm a newbie here...

I just want to ask....
I use:
AVG Free 7.5
CFP 3.0.16.295
Comodo BOClean

Are these software enough to keep me safe from viruses, trojan, malware, and other threats?

FYI, I don't do a regular update for my OS XP SP2 x32 'coz it'll take long hours with my current connection....

Thx...

[MorphOS REBOL]

Quote:

AVG Free 7.5
CFP 3.0.16.295
Comodo BOClean

Are these software enough to keep me safe from viruses, trojan, malware, and other threats?

Answer:

Remove AVG FREE, add Avira FREE
Remove CFP 3.0, add CFP 2.4 for the time being
Leave BOClean, it's fine
Add SpywareTerminator (without Webwatcher)
Add Spybot S&D for immunizing your sys (don't activate it's tea timer)

Don't use IE.

There's so much more to this, but you should be way more safe by this config.

Cheers

The REBOL

[Blas]

I agree with you on Avira but why they should remove cfp V3?

[MorphOS REBOL]

Because of still existing bugs obviously not inherent in version 2.4
And because of the translation possibilities.

Cheers
The REBOL

[Blas]

Ah..I understand. I for example have no issues with v3. And at a first glance it seemed to me that  n1sh1k4ze have installed it already, I supposed there were no issues with it as he/she did not complain about it, thus why would it be replaced by the previous one?

But now, thinking it over again, it is also possible that the question was asked about a future security configuration...
In this case please discard my previous post...I was too simple minded (again)

Greetz,
Blas

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