Windows Standard Security?

Adamcp898

Hi all,

I'm wondering what are the standard security programs that come with Windows 8? Is it just the Windows firewall and Windows Defender?

I ask because I recently installed EA's game service Origin but everytime I go to download any games I've paid for I get an error message, 'file not found error: 7049:404.

I believe this to be a problem with security settings on my laptop as when I uninstalled a trial version of McAffee Internet Security which had long since expired the download commenced. However when I turned off and on my computer again I was back to the same error message, presumably because by restarting my computer the Windows security programs (firewall etc.) had now come into effect since McAffee had been my only running firewall before. However when I disable both windows firewall and defender the download still will not run now. So are there any other programs that come as standard with Windows that I should also be disabling to see if it works?

syklops

Adamcp898 wrote: »

Hi all,

I'm wondering what are the standard security programs that come with Windows 8? Is it just the Windows firewall and Windows Defender?

I ask because I recently installed EA's game service Origin but everytime I go to download any games I've paid for I get an error message, 'file not found error: 7049:404.

I believe this to be a problem with security settings on my laptop as when I uninstalled a trial version of McAffee Internet Security which had long since expired the download commenced. However when I turned off and on my computer again I was back to the same error message, presumably because by restarting my computer the Windows security programs (firewall etc.) had now come into effect since McAffee had been my only running firewall before. However when I disable both windows firewall and defender the download still will not run now. So are there any other programs that come as standard with Windows that I should also be disabling to see if it works?

Don't go disabling your security software.

Is Origin up to date?

Theres a thread on it here.

Adamcp898

syklops wrote: »

Don't go disabling your security software.

Is Origin up to date?

Theres a thread on it here.

Thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately I've already trawled through the internet looking at the various solutions to the same error other people have found and none work for me. I'm not planning on leaving the security software disabled forever, just at the stage where I'm tinkering with everything to try and find the root cause of the problem so that I can then go about fixing it. Hence why I was asking about what security features come as standard with Windows so that I can see whether I've left any out or not?

syklops

Adamcp898 wrote: »

Thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately I've already trawled through the internet looking at the various solutions to the same error other people have found and none work for me. I'm not planning on leaving the security software disabled forever, just at the stage where I'm tinkering with everything to try and find the root cause of the problem so that I can then go about fixing it. Hence why I was asking about what security features come as standard with Windows so that I can see whether I've left any out or not?

How do you connect to the internet? If you disable your firewall and antivirus and connect it to the internet, and you are not behind a router you will be compromised in a matter if minutes.

Khannie

syklops wrote: »

How do you connect to the internet? If you disable your firewall and antivirus and connect it to the internet, and you are not behind a router you will be compromised in a matter if minutes.

Do you really think so? How? I'm not overly familiar with breaching windows machines, but anything on dial up is in that position (for example).

I'm not saying it's a fine idea, like.

syklops

Khannie wrote: »

Do you really think so? How? I'm not overly familiar with breaching windows machines, but anything on dial up is in that position (for example).

I'm not saying it's a fine idea, like.

Anything on dial-up should have a software firewall. Thankfully Microsoft introduced one with XP SP1.

How? By one of the millions of worms or other malware which are banging away at every IP on the internet. The out of the box security with Microsoft 8 is pretty decent in that it comes with AV protection and a firewall turned on by default, but if you turn them off, your leaving yourself open. Heres an article from 2008, granted a little out of date, but SANS found the average infection time of an unpatched XP to be just 4 minutes.

Unless you run a packet sniffer at the same time and monitor all incoming traffic you will not know whether you have been infected with something or not.

BAA RAM EWE

Khannie wrote: »

Do you really think so? How? I'm not overly familiar with breaching windows machines, but anything on dial up is in that position (for example).

I'm not saying it's a fine idea, like.

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