[Coco] Firewall Alerts

[paulh96636 at aol.com]

Well, AOL uses McAfee products for antivirus and firewall software; seems to work well although AOL may
be filtering spam as it's received.  Since Gene considers spam at uce.gov to be a black hole, apparently there's
no one place which would be interested in the firewall alerts web sites I've written down....? (some 2-3 dozen).
 
Shouldn't these be a matter of interest somewhere?  All the phishing emails I get, though not often, I forward
mostly to spoof at ebay.com or spoof at paypal.com and each one has been confirmed by a direct reply to me,
unlike any of the other spam I've reported to various destinations.   -ph
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Jones <ojones at elp.rr.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 12:38:44 -0600
Subject: [Coco] Firewall Alerts


PaulH96636 at aol.com wrote: 
> I've been on AOL for many years. AOL seems to have a great spam blocker > built into v9.0SE 
> as I get less than a dozen spams per week. I know this sounds like a plug, > but that's the 
> way it is, (with Verizon DSL too). 
> > Still haven't received any replies regarding an experience using dial-up and > getting dozens of 
> firewall alerts reporting remote computers trying to access my computer. > Guess no one else 
> has gotten the same result. 
> > -ph 
> 
> Paul, 
I have gotten those alerts before even when I was using dial up. I quit using dialup about two years ago. I used to us ZoneAlarm firewall and it would tell me when someone else was trying to access my computer. I didn't worry about it because ZoneAlarm locked them out. But it was amazing to see how many times I was getting "probed." :) 
I use Symantec Client Firewall now and it works very well. 
 
Alan 
 
 
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