2011-04-09, 04:39 AM
I learned that firewalls provide better security than antiviruses. The reason is ok sure if you get a virus it will mess your computer. But it will be done locally... only on your computer. Nothing will go out if you are smart enough to check "every" process which asks for internet acces. That way data cant leave your computer so not much can be harmed.
The inbuild windows firewall only detects incoming traffic (connection to your computer) but it doesnt check what connects outside. Little better firewalls (i use comodo - someone said it before already) lets you monitor all your traffic which runs on computer. And if any new program needs internet connection you will get popup. Even if some program changes other program you will get popup (normally happens during patches so you have option its a patch and it goes through nicley). Its little annoying to set everything at start but its not too bad.
Antiviruses are generally good even microsoft one is good. Just need to have regular updating and active scan + weekly scheduled scan.
And in my opinion getting keylogger is REALLY hard if you are half computer literate. You would have to run it on your computer since chrome has own sandbox for runing aplications.
About that theory of wireless packet sniffers. It actually is possible. From a ss crazymaikon posted few month ago you can see that there are quite a nice dollars from selling mesos/accounts/whatever. And all the student in complex needs is to have run laptop somewhere and let traffic through it. It really takes maybe 1 day to figure out what programs to use and how to set it. And then after you just wait. If you have few thousand students there is chance few will play maple. And since nexon website is complete poop when it comes to security they have easy acces to everything.
I would say this theory is more plausable than keylogger one.
The inbuild windows firewall only detects incoming traffic (connection to your computer) but it doesnt check what connects outside. Little better firewalls (i use comodo - someone said it before already) lets you monitor all your traffic which runs on computer. And if any new program needs internet connection you will get popup. Even if some program changes other program you will get popup (normally happens during patches so you have option its a patch and it goes through nicley). Its little annoying to set everything at start but its not too bad.
Antiviruses are generally good even microsoft one is good. Just need to have regular updating and active scan + weekly scheduled scan.
And in my opinion getting keylogger is REALLY hard if you are half computer literate. You would have to run it on your computer since chrome has own sandbox for runing aplications.
About that theory of wireless packet sniffers. It actually is possible. From a ss crazymaikon posted few month ago you can see that there are quite a nice dollars from selling mesos/accounts/whatever. And all the student in complex needs is to have run laptop somewhere and let traffic through it. It really takes maybe 1 day to figure out what programs to use and how to set it. And then after you just wait. If you have few thousand students there is chance few will play maple. And since nexon website is complete poop when it comes to security they have easy acces to everything.
I would say this theory is more plausable than keylogger one.