Sphinx Vista Firewall Control Product

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I was on CD/Net concerning Vistas problems and seen the artical on this
product to enhance Vista firewall. Has anyone had experience with using this?
Thanks again for the help. I don't want to keep bothering everyone but I just
put out a lot of money for my new desktop with Vista Premium an am reading a
lot about the problems Microsoft is having with it. As big as Microsoft is it
seems funny that they would not put out a total package of security to
protect their operating systems so one would not have to add other products.
Spyware,virus,firewall,malware,bots,rootkits, come on Microsoft your a
fortune !) Billion company take solid care of your products an especially
your costomers. OK rant is over .
 
What Microsoft is capable of building into the operating system and what
they are **allowed** to supply, is predicated by anti-trust rulings. It is
YOUR government at work, protecting you by telling Microsoft that they can
not do certain things - such as supply a fully functional utility that would
undermine M/S competitors.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)
 
Richard said:
What Microsoft is capable of building into the operating system and what
they are **allowed** to supply, is predicated by anti-trust rulings. It
is YOUR government at work, protecting you by telling Microsoft that
they can not do certain things - such as supply a fully functional
utility that would undermine M/S competitors.
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I don't necessarily believe that ms could not market and sell whatever
they want, as long as it would compete in the open market place; that
is, for sale rather than bundled part and parcel as part of the os. The
government is protecting more than the consumer. It is also protecting
the right of businesses to compete under fair, head to head competition,
disallowing a monopoly to use its dominant power unfairly to stem or
eliminate said competition.
 
I was on CD/Net concerning Vistas problems and seen the artical on this
product to enhance Vista firewall. Has anyone had experience with using this?
Thanks again for the help. I don't want to keep bothering everyone but I just
put out a lot of money for my new desktop with Vista Premium an am reading a
lot about the problems Microsoft is having with it. As big as Microsoft is it
seems funny that they would not put out a total package of security to
protect their operating systems so one would not have to add other products.
Spyware,virus,firewall,malware,bots,rootkits, come on Microsoft your a
fortune !) Billion company take solid care of your products an especially
your costomers. OK rant is over .
Click to expand...

Real-time AV applications (choose one (1) only).
Disable the e-mail scanning function during installation (Custom
Installation on some AV apps.) as it provides no additional protection. In
fact, most of experts (and Norton) believe that scanning incoming and
outgoing mail causes e-mail file corruption.

Avira AntiVir® PersonalEdition Classic - Free
http://www.free-av.com/antivirus/allinonen.html

Free antivirus - avast! 4 Home Edition
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
(Choose Custom Installation and under Resident
Protection, uncheck: Internet Mail and Outlook/Exchange.)

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
http://free.grisoft.com/

On-demand AV application (add it to your arsenal and use it as a "second
opinion" av scanner).
BitDefender10 Free Edition
http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-14-en--BitDefender-8-Free-Edition.html

A-S applications (grab'em all).

The effectiveness of an individual A-S scanners can be wide-ranging and
oftentimes a collection of scanners is best. There isn't one software that
cleans and immunizes you against everything. That's why you need multiple
products to do the job i.e. overlap their coverage - one may catch what
another may miss.

SuperAntispyware - Free
http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispywarefreevspro.html

Ad-Aware - Free
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad_aware_free.php
http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html

Spybot Search & Destroy - Free
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Windows Defender - Free (build-in in Vista)
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
Interesting reading:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136195/article.html
"...Windows Defender did excel in behavior-based protection, which detects
changes to key areas of the system without having to know anything about
the actual threat."

Some more useful applications:
Spyware Blaster - Free
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Rootkit Revealer - Free
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/RootkitRevealer.mspx

Crap Cleaner - Free
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/
If Windows Defender is utilized go to Applications, under Utilities
uncheck "Windows Defender"

CW Shredder - Free
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Popup-Ad-Spyware-Blockers/CWShredder.shtml
 
JJ said:
I was on CD/Net concerning Vistas problems and seen the artical on this
product to enhance Vista firewall. Has anyone had experience with using this?
Click to expand...


Yes. It makes Vista's built-in firewall much easier for the average
user to use.





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