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[bob3160]

Thanks Syros than I can delete the older version with the one day serial# from  

[Spyros]

Thanks Syros

Syros is the name of a nice Greek island, mine is Spyros 

PS: Sorry to everybody who thought this was an update post!

[XMAS]

New Ad-Aware SE definitions file available - SE1R67 20.09.2005

[Lisandro]

Spyware Blaster update

[Lisandro]

a Squared Update

[roro]

AS of 9.20.05 Firefox 1.0.7 update is available.  It doesn't add any new goodies, but updates security fixes. 
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

 

[Spyros]

TrendMicro CWShredder 2.16 released
(Upgrade through internal updayer)

Official site http://www.trendmicro.com/cwshredder/ hasn't been updated yet.

[Spyros]

GhostWall v 1.000

GhostWall is a firewall which allows you to restrict the communications between your computer and others. Unlike other firewalls which have forgotten their main role, GhostWall is simply a firewall mainly designed to replace the standard Microsoft firewall with better features and performance.
GhostWall works on Windows XP,XP-64 (x64),2000 and 2003

Site: http://www.ghostsecurity.com/index.php?page=ghostwall
Forum: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=76

[szc]

I'm sorry and with all due respect Spyros, but some things connected to this product looks like nothing, but a joke...

See here:

http://www.antionline.com/printthread.php?threadid=111958&pagenumber=1

The guy is advertising his own product without telling people who he is. Actually he tried to represent himself as a "happy" user who gives that firewall A+++++ score.

The other suspicious thing is there is actually no hits when you search through the Google, actually the link up there was the only one except few things Linux related. Also Copernic search engine shows nothing, nada, zero...

Forum is a joke, actually there is no forum at all. Just two posts made by the firewall owner. See here:



Also, description of the firewall is unbelievable cheap:



Quote from that page:

It's main features are :-
- High performance
- Low resource usage
- Valuable network statistics

I don't think those should be main features of one good firewall  Where are other more important things... nothing is mentioned. Of course, it looks attractive like that in black color and I must admit it looks different than any other firewall, but let's not be fooled just by the look. We are talking about serious security issues, and we all want to be protected best we can.

This is ABOUT US page:



Again, very little or no information at all...

Edit: expected more serious information about the company... something like we can see on avast! web page: http://www.avast.com/eng/company.html

Something more directed to company's BIO or portfolio or something like that...

[Spyros]

I'm sorry and with all due respect Spyros, but this firewall is nothing but the joke...

Sasha, it may be, I don't know. I never said that it is good. I have heard about the company, the forum is on Wilders, I even use ProcX (freeware) by them without a problem... Thank you for informing us about your findings. Eventually time will tell, I think it's too new to find anything on Google.

[szc]

No no Spyros do not worry at all, no need to explain yourself or anything... I just mentioned that because it really sounded very strange.

I'm telling you, firewall looks really nice and would maybe give it a try, but few things are sooo strange, and I think, we shouldn't "attack" it right away without checking on some things, but just to be careful because there are many new members in this forum and also some people that don't know that much about computer security.

Of course you did nothing wrong, and please don't take this as a cryticism, rather as some kind of precaution.

Regards !
Sasha

EDIT: Of course I would like to see people's experiences (if any yet) and sure I would give it a try here on my PC. I keep my backup image files safe on DVDs and two spare HDs, so it's very easy to test those things without screwing up my system. If anything goes wrong, just in 5 minutes, my system is completely restored to some previous safe point.

I don't want this to sound like I have anything against this program or the author (NO WAY), we all know how I reacted towards Arovax shield, we all know I was defending his try and effort, but I'm just being cautious this time since we talk about firewall (first line of defense when it comes to computer security).

Sure it would be great if it's some new promising product... and again, I have to say, it really looks nice and gives an impression of a strong product. Is it true, we all have to check first... I'm ready to play with it...

[Spyros]

Microsoft Antispyware Definitions #5761

a-squared (a²)
Downloading Engine Kernel ... Several speed and threading improvements.
Downloading Cumulative signature update 09/22/2005 ... 149383 signatures in total.
Downloading Cumulative signature update 09/22/2005 ... 27218 traces in total.

[Spyros]

Spybot S&D update

[essexboy]

AS of 9.20.05 Firefox 1.0.7 update is available.  It doesn't add any new goodies, but updates security fixes. 
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

 

I just did a clean install of the update but unfortunately it went into a loop so I had to uninstall it

[Eddy]

Not exactly a software update, but still I want to mention it.

- Obtained 2 domain names for my website

• http://mrspock.dsmirc.co.uk
• http://mrspock.co.nr

- Added a link section to my website
- Changed the colors of my website (hope you like them)
- Now all pages are using the same colors, including the webboard
- Only Bot projects still have their own colors
- Support section for my software now only accessable for members
- Rearranged some tables with links
- Fixed some typo's and broken links