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Originally Posted by jonathanlowe  Hi Paul, I do use a hardware firewall, the one built into my router. I also run a software router, however neither are as good as the firewall built into the proxy server I used to use when connected by ISDN. I never had any problems though using a public IP with Eircom.
Now I wonder if I'm protected at all, so perhaps you could advise me on how to test my forewall to see if one can get through. I have run Leaktest and that can't get out.
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I was using Panda Internet Security Suite 2007 until last Saturday, and have been using it for the past few years, I have never had any problems with viruses worms or any such like.
But while using the computer last Saturday, the usual pop up window appeared telling me that Panda was now up to date. It usually does that about every 2 days. But as soon as the pop up window went so was my Internet connection. My first thought was the ISP, TXT them and asked was it down, got a reply that it wasn't. So I thought a Virus? I use a boot CD Called Hirens Boot CD, it has loads of progs that you can use by booting from it, Find and change the Admin password, McAfee, and Fprot anti virus to name but a few. I scanned the computer from this for viruses twice using both Virus progs, and there was none on the computer. I rebooted and uninstalled Panda and I had my connection straight away. So I felt that something had become corrupt with Panda. I cleaned out my Registry of all ref's to Panda and reinstalled it. Still had my connection, then I clicked on update after putting in my client details and it downloaded the 30mb of files in about 2 to 3 mins. Again I lost my Internet connection, I am waiting on a reply from Panda as to what may be gone wrong, afraid I am going to get something into my machine. I would put in a new one except that Panda has nearly a year to run and I have 3 licenses with it. Anyone come across this before??
jonathanlowe: It seems strange to me that Calidas are not using WEP keys, The one on National Wireless Broadband is 64bit, they can use 128bit but it can cause a bit of latency. But with the WEP Key no one else except a customer can connect to the system so anyone else with the same IP should not matter.