Johnny said:
I don't know how to turn of alerting other than by Blocking All;
As I don't use Sygate, I can't tell you the exact place to turn off
alerting and logging for Inbound threats.
the kind of threat I am talking about is an Outbound one that says,
for example, 'threat level: Major' in the Log Viewer, while the
diamond-shaped light is flashing on the icon. By 'forget about
them', I don't know what you mean, as if you can't go online it's
impossible to forget about them!
I'm trying to get you to realize that there will be hundreds of
'pings' from infected computers looking for new victims. As long as
your firewall is blocking them, you are safe. You do not need to
worry. I'm on cable, and - if alerting was on - would see about ~600
pings per hour. I do not wish to have to manually clear an alert every
few seconds, or clean up a huge log file every day.
I must say that I can't see how an Inbound threat is, as you put
it, 'normal' and something to forget about,
In this day, continuous Inbound pings are .. normal.
while an Outbound threat is, as my firewall puts it, 'major'.
Well, if your PC is attempting to call OUT and you weren't expecting
it, that is major, eh?
Surely an Outbound one is one from my own PC?? This is confusing,
to say the least! From what I can see, my last 'ajor threat' was
just my own AVG trying to update itself!
Then you either click "Permit" and allow it, or set the firewall to
always allow that particular application so you don't have to see an
alert. You "set a rule". Do this only for trusted applications.
A point: there are many malicious apps that will attempt to fire up
Internet Explorer to connect with a web page or server. I have my
firewall set to Ask Every Time for IE.
It's rather worrying if, as you put it, it's probably too late when
you turn off the PC - I have had a number of alerts that have gone
on for a few minutes before I have taken any action.
By "gone on for a few minutes" do you mean the Alert remained on the
screen until you clicked a button? You're not seeing a "continuous"
alert, just a single alert at a point in time that you must react to
after it occurs, even if you don't get to it for minutes, or hours.
I have not been surfing the 'net at the time, but being on
broadband I thought that I am always connected to the 'net, so am
always vulnerable....
That is true. My cable connection is on all the time, 24/7. So is the
firewall (and the router).
