as_izaak

Hi there... may i know what software is necessary to ensure computers that are connected to the internet is secure?

Logla

You need a firewall mate.

Both McAfee and Norton do firewalls, which you can purchase with their respective antivirus programs.

There are other dedicated firewall software as well such as Zone Alarm which you can download for free.

There are many others as well but I can't think of them all, plenty of the other members will know about them so hang around and you'll get the answers you need

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as_izaak

Thanks there...
Actually, I was looking for points for my assignment. I can't think of any besides firewall.

Logla

Hmm. Tough one that. We have machines at work which use software routing. Kerio WinRoute firewall. It uses NAT to route the IPs and this makes it effective in stealthing out PCs connected to it, but again - its just a firewall. Not sure of any other software you could use for security.

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krazy1

Firewalls both software and hardware, IDS (Intrusion Detection System) used to watch network traffic for viruses, DoS attacks and the such.

Their is a tool that I use to evaluate the lvl of updates on a system. The Prog is called GFI LANGuard. You can use it free for 30 days but what it does is it scans systems to see what lvl their are for patches and the such. I use it here at work to eval systems. It not only checks for patch lvl but it also can tell you the users on the mach, how old passwords are, if IIS is running and loads of other usefull info.

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The_Neon_Cowboy

for safe internal network with network file shareing and with internet acess
you should have a firewall/router/nat device
connected to a linux machine running with ip mascurade( as a internet gateway),
conneted to the inside network of windows machines
a firewall and anti virus on each pc

normal setup would be a router and then home network with firewalls but the above is the safest

even if you did all that? you not 100% safe
not to meantin you must juggle security with performance

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