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Other => General Topics => Topic started by: polonus on March 27, 2006, 11:38:33 PM
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Hi forum members,
Has anybody used this tool of which there is a description here: http://xp-antispy.org/content/view/12/40/
Is it advisable or is it diminishing the security settings of XP.
Can anybody comment?
polonus
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Automatic updates? Oooooooh! Conspiracy!
I had a look once, but decided you'd have to be really paranoid to worry about most of the features that this program allows you to disable.
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Polonus, for me it's very useful, does what it says it does.
For instance, in off-line computers you can disable the Central Security and avoid those non-sense (for the user) antivirus and firewall alerts.
Computers off-line don't need some security features, not at the same level of the on-line computers... unless you're paranoid ;D
For me, a good tool, useful, stable 8)
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Hi FwF,
I think some of them are even dangerous, because you could miss critical security updates. On XP SP2 once the automatic updates were disabled for just a couple of days (slip of the sys.admin), I missed 33 updates. What is given in by common sense here , and as you say rightly so where is paranoia entering the game? But some feel safer by it.
OK if you block the last 3 digits of your ISP number when ZA connects to base, and they give you this opportunity themselves. Right. But when you connect to the Internet you know you are almost transparent these days in so many ways. Does it really help? Good to hear the pro's and cons.
polonus
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Here's a review that pretty well sums it up:
Great features - confusing interface
Interface: 1 Features: 5 Ease of use: 3 Value: 4 Overall:
The Application allows you to record the settings that you have before you start, via profiles. It has some existing profiles, and you can add as many of your own profiles as you like. The profile operation may be different depending on which profiles, you select and that is not completely clear in the help. As a result I would not use the provided profiles. The use of colors and checkmarks in the status field is very confusing. However once you hit apply the confusing colors are gone, and your settings can be verified. The explanations of what the fields do is very short and additional investigation should be done in some cases to make sure you don't cause yourself a problem. The help is brief, and more information is required for inexperienced users. I would only recommend this software for advanced users.
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I would only recommend this software for advanced users.
Me too ;D
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I would only recommend this software for advanced users.
Me too ;D
Review isn't mine, it's something I found at SnapFiles. :)
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I've recommended this program in my guides for three years and have instructions on how to use it properly.
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I love it.
Let's face it, there's nothing this prog does which cannot be obtained by manually editing some services of XP.
But as a sort of central command unit to disable messenger-service, id, auto-update etc. etc. it is a simple few-click and done application.
It's up to each individual user to decide which services one wants to disable/enable with this prog.
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Polonous is right some of them are dangerous like disabling auto updates. The program is still decent but I thought it was better when it focused only on certain things and did not get so bloated.