DosFreak

Nice. Does it work good in 2000?

Yep, here's another example of why people need Antivirus. Recently I've been redoing the sad pathetic Antivirus here on base. Computers were spread out over 6 Norton AV Servers 8) 8) . Finally I consolidated them onto one AV server and am push updates to the computers via SMS. The AV server is there is basically for a backup and to manage. Also our NAV gateway wasn't blocking attachments so I upgrade to the latest NAV gateway which is 2.1 I believe. So Finally we are blocking .exe,.vbs,.wsh,.scr,.com,.cmd,.bat and some other extensions that I cannot recall. SO I upgrade those 2 computers and finally we are blocking attachments! YAY! Now I'm looking through the AV logs and I noticed virus traffic going from computer to computer. inter-lan email wich of course NAV gateway ain't gonna catch, NAV on the users desktop will catch it but that's a slow way of getting those viruses off so right now as of today I am sticking NAV for Exchange on all the exchange servers and having it scan through all the information stores. I'm gonna get this virus problem licked dangit!

I'm not sure on this...I'm not up on recovering deleted files but if the directory is deleted I think it would be alot harder to recover your files....

If it was me I would Stick it in another computer. Make an image of the drive with Norton Ghost. I would then try different recovery programs to recover the files. (There are doezens of recovery programs out there and you don't know which one's are the best.)

Whistler=Beta 2 Windows 2000=Done Think about it.......

??? Thief & Dungeon Keeper 2 & Alpha Centauri run fine in Windows 2000...... or are you not patching the games and/or not use compatiblity updates?

Stop using that hard drive IMMEDIATLY. Stick it in another computer as slave with an OS that supports reading NTFS drives. Use a program that can recover deleted files from NTFS partitions.

Hey, anyone know anything about Sidewinder Firewall? I'm having trouble backing up my Sidewinder and can't figure out why I can't back up. I'm about to just forget about tape and see if I can just mirror the stupid hard drivers.

Just ask someone who has XP for the files. Someone will come along eventually and notice this thread....eventually. or if you don't feel like figuring out how to get them to work you can just send me the files when you get them (they should be easily under 1m zipped) and I'll figure it out for ya. Unfortunately I don't think I have those games you listed....so that will be a problem.

This means WAR!!!! No I see where your coming from. Quote: <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">You argued that a firewall would improve the performance of your internet. Perhaps Dosfreak, you used the wrong word. 'Experience’ maybe, but not performance. Nothing that filters the incoming and outgoing packets that are sent to your computer can improve the performance of the Internet, or rather your use of the internet. By arguing this, you are being ridiculous. Are you seriously claiming that a persons ping time is lowered with the use of a Firewall? Come on Dos, that is incorrect. I do totally agree with your mentioning of popups however.</font> Okay, about long-term performance? All of those banners. Dozens of types of picture formats and flash files being cached to your HD? They takes up ALOT of space and alot of files. Those space & Files do slow down your HD. The fact that my Temporary Internet Files reside in my profile (Windows 2000) by default doesn't please me any. I say by default. As a tweaker I can move this. Most people do not. I never stated that ping time was affected at all. I was simply talking about performance. Any type of performance. Those banner's, animations, take up RAM memory,disk memory, & processor time. Thereby reducing my ability to what I love to do best. Surf the internet for information and download the latest of whatever I can get. Quote: <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">"Your comments about port security was spot on also but, by admitting that in most win9x systems, file and printer sharing was enabled by default then you are agreeing with me when I say the default security of windows 2000 is better then in windows 9x"</font> Yes, That's why I'd rather I'd have home users using NT than 9x. The average homer user doesn't need 9x especially now with Windows 2000 but Windows 2000 is still VERY unprotected. Quote: <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">And a person who plays games online will most likely play them often and having to constantly disable real time virus scanning is annoying. And, partially defeats the purpose.</font> Well yes, but your solution doesn't even use Virus Scanning! 8) Personally if it was my system at home. I'd would have a firewall box. On my Personal system I would manually scan whatever files I downloaded that needed scanned. For a home user I really doen't see why ISP's do not do a more effective job of virus scanning. If they did their job right there would be no need whatsoever for the home user to have a virus scanner at all! Just stick a super-powerful AV server after the firewall to scan ALL incoming traffic and a secondary AV server to scan all outgoing. Tada. No more need for home virus scanners. uh oh wait. There's always someone who will make up a new virus or who will distribute it internaly so you'll still need a virus scanner on each computer. oh well. Still Incoming/Outgoing at the firewall would solve 95% of all internet virus problems Right now at home I have no internet access because I live in the UK and they do not offer DSL/Cable in my area. I have been using modems since 1990 and after 1998 (I had a 33.6 then). I vowed to myself that I would not have a modem for home use until I could get DSL/Cable. My work interner access has kept me sane throught that time. At work I have a NAV gateway that scans incoming email. Currently outbound traffic is not scanned which I do not like and I would like to look into implementing further. My work computer has NAV 7.51 which is on constantly and is updated by both SMS and my NAV server. Quote: <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Another thing, any so-called dos freak would understand that merely disabling a virus programs background checking does not remove the program from remaining resident. The fact that it is most likely enabled at startup means that it decreases system performance. Not really. We are just talking about different kinds of performance. I think you were talking about the subject of your topic which was firewall's and I was rambling on about how it affected the user. heh. Quote: <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">I am aware that there is a lot of unknown, or unrecognised activity around my ports. But it has to take a malicious user, with some level of knowledge to be able to actually hack, or tamper with my pc. And your comments about people not knowing if their pc were hacked was a little weak. I think most people in this forum would know their computer well enough to realise if there were any damage done. And if their weren't, then it's not really a problem is there.</font> Okay, I will admit...It does take at least a little bit of computer knowledge... ping -t 131.56.136.73 Now here is my question for you. How would the average user on this forum be able to tell why their connection is extremely slow to the point of even being disconnected if the above simple command {that comes with any 9x & NT os and is one of the very basics of networking} was being done to them? "Your defence about an attack being likely was also, perhaps a little exaggerated. Are you saying that statistically, someone gaining entrance to your computer to perform malicious acts, On a personal system mind you, is a real probability? Don't get confused with a possibility. I just find that hard to believe." Depends on your status. Here's an example: Joe Blow-Buys Compaq at Best Buys. Compaq rep sets him up. He finally logs in at home on 56k to check email at Aol,yahoo & hotmail. Been doing it awhile so it takes him 15mins. Clicks on one of those Spams every Aoler get's and logs onto malicious site. Site logs Ip, does reverse DNS, does a port probe and can probably push out a remote agent that connects to host site. Agent monitors keytraps and sends info to remote site. Now above example happens veeeeeeeeerrryyy rarely but could very easily happen. I'd say probability of that happening is so low...well I don't have any numbers and no Compaq owners/Aolers that I can remember have complained so they must be happy with their current situation. Here's another: APK-Programmer-Spammer of ARS! (Just kidding APK!)- Provides lots of helpful info that unfortunately some people cannot take. People try their best to get APK banned, Spammed, and whatever else to mess him up. But APK is a veteran of the net so he knows what he's doing. He has firewalls running. He knows his ports. He knows his NT. Nothing will ever get past him and if it does well he'll know where to go and he'll know how to get it fixed. Unfortunately Joe Blow will never know until he Gets a GPF,disconnect, or his computer blows up in his face. Quote: <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">I could argue many more points Dosfreak, but I will leave that to another post. I think I can safely say, that undoubtedly, your ideal system would be a lot more protected then mine, but I can guarantee, my ideal system would run a lot faster then yours. And to finish, the word 'tweak' is so broad. You tweak for security, I tweak for speed. That was, and is my argument Dosfreak.</font> Nah, let's continue this thread. I forsee it growing very big in size. I haven't been on the net lately due to my network switching over to ATM so I've been very busy at work and I need a thread to type in! So don't quite this thread dangit! /begin boast Oh and you wanna argue speed huh? Post your benchmarks buddy. That's why I have a Dual P3-1000@1125 with 512M of RAM! /end boast [This message has been edited by DosFreak (edited 06 April 2001).]

oops, I though you had the XP ones. Well if you can get ahold of them then that should work. I don't have the latest XP beta handy. Mabye someone else does?

You can also rename the other .sdb files to w2kmain.sdb and see what's in those do. Also there are other tools in the c:\program files\act\application directory while will allow you to make your own shims and such.

All Qfixapp cares about is w2kmain.sdb. You can just rename the w2kmain.sdb to w2kmain.act and then copy the Whistler W2kmain.sdb into there. But Watch out! 2000 watches what happens to that file and if you replace it with another it takes the w2kmain.sdb from the appfix.exe in the C:\program files\act\applications and copies it to the C:\winnt\apppatch directory. So rename appfix.exe to appfix.exb before you play around with the C:\winnt\apppatch directory otherwise your going to confuse the files. (You'll know when the files are being replaced because a dialog file transfer windows in the upp-left hand side of the screen will flash briefly)

Download the Windows 2000 Application Compatibility Toolkit from here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/compatibility/ Install it. Download Winzip from www.winzip.com Install it. Now go to C:\program files\ACT\applications directory. Right-Click on Appfix.exe and do "Extract to folder...." Now replace the files within this folder from the ones from whistler. Now right-click on the .inf and choose install. This will copy the files to C:\winnt\AppPatch so that Qfixapp can use them. Run Qfixapp to use the new updates! Tell us how many updates there are in there compared to the ACT. Default ACT is 70.

Now if I can figure out how to install Sidewinder on a standard PC...Why....I would have one of the best home firewalls ever! MUAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHH! *Sidewinder is our base firewall. Unfortunately I haven't had time to learn it but I'm working on it. Gonna set up a test system on a Crapp Compaq Server soon. Gonna be fun!

Hmmmm, depends on how far you wanna go. I'd say the hardware firewall would be best because you wouldn't have to manage it as much. Also you wouldn't have to worry about your main computer crashing. The hardware firewall would be dedicated to that task. Also you pretty much never have to worry about patches and such. Of course price would probably be a factor + manageability. If you couldn't manage this firewall. (I don't see why not, just telnet in from across the net.) Why heck there's pretty much NO reason NOT to go for a hardware firewall. You'd think ISP's would give ya one for an added bonus when they install your DSL/cable. It sure would solve their headache's I'm sure.

I remember a looooonnngg time ago seeing a download section that had Voodoo 2 drivers for NT5 and the DX4NT5 hack. So where did it go? Or am I just blind? I've been meaning to ask for awhile but I uhh didn't.

Yes, you can move the files from XP into 2000. The .dll's are compressed into one big .sdb file. When the prog needs this .dll it's extracted from the .sdb. When replacing the SDB that comes with the Application Compatibility kit with the one that comes with Whistler you will have ALOT more compatibility options.

Start/run/drwtsn32.exe Uncheck the boxes & Check the # of errors to 0. I also use X-setup to remove the path for the log files.

In the end you have either 1 CD or 2CD's of one movies and you think to yourself. WHY??? WHYYY!!???? hehehe. I just copy rented DVD's to my HD if I want to watch them again. Then eventually I buy 'em.

Me either. I went from IE 5.01->IE6 B2411->2462. Not much of a diff. I haven't had the issues that Xiven has had.

http://home.nexgo.de/nanzy/ *Warning* IE has not been "officialy" released by MS yet. But here's a link to Build 2462. Both for 9x & NT.

"I hope Gigabyte doesnt make all their mobos like that." They do. Well the home user mobo's anyway.

ERD Commander is nice. All I do is boot from the floppies. After the normal NT boot floppy part it drops to a command prompt. Then it offers some help commands. To rest a local admin password all I have to do is type in REGISTER or somesuch and it loads the registry. Then I can modify and local admin account password. Very handy! Some day when I get the time I'm going to see if I can stick the floppies on a bootable CD..... [This message has been edited by DosFreak (edited 24 March 2001).]