Tightening Up Security

I've just downloaded Zone Alarm for a friend of mine to try to help secure her NTL cable modem connected computer.

I'm shocked at the number of attemped connections on port 445. This is apparently Windows NetBIOS's port for sharing files etc. There are also various other scans going on seemingly every 5 minutes from various IP addresses.

I also took the liberty of downloading SpyBot Search and Destroy and installing it. Again, that detected quite a few Spyware apps on her system, as well as various cookies. These have now also been removed.