Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <00c001c45304$df0a8640$f763fa04@intrepid> From: "Brian Bruns" To: References: Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:16:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scan-Signature: 33977608f22db99038dfddbcc19d4c84 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 4.250.201.20 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: bruns@2mbit.com Subject: Re: ssh become slower and slower? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on everest.sosdg.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-104.9 required=9.0 tests=BAYES_00,USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Report: * -4.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * -100 USER_IN_WHITELIST From: address is in the user's white-list X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.0 (built Wed, 05 May 2004 12:02:20 -0500) X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Tuesday, June 15, 2004 1:30 PM [EDT], Dave Korn wrote: > > Better advice would be to try a *different* firewall, not none at > all. > > Anything by Norton is very bad news, because all their software is > hideously bloated, installs hooks into way too many corners of your > system, and destabilises everything. That goes for their AV and > antispam stuff as well as their PFW. > > Something lower impact, like Zone Alarm or Agnitum or any of the > free PFWs should do. And I always recommend Grisoft AVG (free > edition) as a good low-intrusiveness antivirus. > > Kerio Personal Firewall is pretty decent too - I run it here with no problems once I turn off the IDS (in free mode, v4 only has packet filtering on incoming/outgoing connections, none of the more advanced interprocess communcation control, etc). If you run XP, you can use the built in firewall (moreso, get the SP2 RC and use the more powerful firewall in that). I'm one of the people who produces ClamAV for Windows using Cygwin. Unfortunately, we dont have real time scanning yet. Working on it though from what I know. -- Brian Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group Open Solutions For A Closed World / Anti-Spam Resources http://www.sosdg.org The Abusive Hosts Blocking List http://www.ahbl.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/