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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / July 2005testing, once again
just got off the phone with comcast---long and tedious process. it appears my firewall went kaplooie or something, because it started interfering with sending emails and stuff, shortly after things were working again after the 48 hour block. had to turn the firewall off and am running with it being turned off now. email fixed. hope it also works for newsgroups, too. fingers crossed. kate > email fixed. hope it also works for newsgroups, too. >fingers crossed. I see you! It is working which firewall do you use? Visit my website: http://www.mzuschlag.com >> email fixed. hope it also works for newsgroups, too. >>fingers crossed. > I see you! It is working which firewall do you use? whew! YAAAAY!!! i'm no longer using the firewall that came with this computer/ xp. not using any firewall now. kate > Visit my website: > http://www.mzuschlag.com > whew! YAAAAY!!! i'm no longer using the firewall that came with this > computer/ xp. not using any firewall now. > > kate May I recommend one that I love, and was highly praised by our friend Larry? Zone Alarm, at zonelabs.com. Free and worth a million. Easy to configure and does a great job. Kelly C.-not advertising, advising.;o) thanx kelly, i've heard of that one. what's a firewall supposed to do, anyhow? kate >> whew! YAAAAY!!! i'm no longer using the firewall that came with this >> computer/ xp. not using any firewall now. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Kelly C.-not advertising, advising.;o) >thanx kelly, i've heard of that one. what's a firewall supposed to do, >anyhow? I use zone alarm the free version it works great. Firewalls are extremely important for those with broadband connections. Often the machine will have open ports a hacker will ping your machine, and when your machine responds they can hack your computer and turn it into a zombie and send spam e-mail through it or steal your personal information. You want your machine to operate in stealth mode. There are also worms on the internet that will spread via internet connection. If your machine responds you will get the worm. This happened with several worms recently. On broad band you are on line for a long time which makes your machine a prime target especially with all that bandwidth. ISPs are starting to aggressively shut off zombie machines because a lot of spam is sent via dummy machines. Also a firewall will protect you from internal malicious software. For example spyware phoning home. A firewall like zone alarm will tell you if a program is accessing the internet. You can set up your routine programs to always connect to the internet it is nice to know if you suddenly have a new program trying to phone home. How would you know if you have a backdoor trojan sending out all sorts of information from your machine? The firewall will tell you if this is happening. The xp firewall is for external use it will not tell you if an internal program is trying to phone home. I love zone alarm it works well and best of all it is free. http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp?lid=nav_za No need for zone alarm pro unless you want to pay for more feature the basic works just fine. In the beginning you will get warnings about programs after you affirm it is ok to access it will just run in the background until you pick up spyware or other malicious programs. Visit my website: http://www.mzuschlag.com i read this and went straight for the download. t'was easy. thanx, mz! kate >>thanx kelly, i've heard of that one. what's a firewall supposed to do, >>anyhow? [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > Visit my website: > http://www.mzuschlag.com I use Norton Internet Security 2005 and run Windows XP with Service Pack 2 and have had no problems with it. I update when it tells me to and have it automatically to do a complete scan once a week. If a new virus comes out, I do a Live Update and the a complete scan. Of course, I do have a son who is an expert on computers (manager of repair department at Best Buy). :-) Loujean >i read this and went straight for the download. t'was easy. thanx, mz! > [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] >> Visit my website: >> http://www.mzuschlag.com Loujean Retired and love it. Throw that FISH out and put in an S to email me. >I use Norton Internet Security 2005 and run Windows XP with Service > Pack 2 and have had no problems with it. I update when it tells me to [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > repair department at Best Buy). :-) > Loujean That's what we have, too. Hubby is a software engineer. But when we let security lapse, we got spyware that embedded itself in the 'start up' sequence and could not be removed. Paralyzed the machine and we had to wipe the hard drives and start over. Adelle > That's what we have, too. Hubby is a software engineer. But when we let > security lapse, we got spyware that embedded itself in the 'start up' > sequence and could not be removed. Paralyzed the machine and we had to > wipe the hard drives and start over. > > Adelle That happened to me also and I got lucky with digging it out of the machine. My son finally got over here in about two weeks and the job was done, much to his surprise. LOLOL Harv >>I use Norton Internet Security 2005 and run Windows XP with Service >> Pack 2 and have had no problems with it. I update when it tells me to [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >Adelle Ouch! Reminds me to finish that personal files cd backup. Knee sore from Hyalgan shot so typing one handed. Loujean Retired and love it. Throw that FISH out and put in an S to email me. Don't mean to be picky, but how does your knee being sore require one-handed typing? I'm trying to picture you typing with your knees. LOL DeeTee ________________________________ DeeTee and Bob Taggart http://www.marykay.com/dtaggart3 http://mysite.verizon.net/vze8fwov/ ________________________________ >>>I use Norton Internet Security 2005 and run Windows XP with Service >>> Pack 2 and have had no problems with it. I update when it tells me to [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Throw that FISH out and > put in an S to email me. Oh, funny, funny - I had one leg propped up on a chair with an ice bag on it and I can only get that chair so close to my computer (corner desk setup). The knee is down right now, but will got watch Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy in the recliner and elevate it again. It's not as sore as it was when she was putting it in, frozen before or not (she used some kind of spray that was cold). She asked her assistant for another syringe as she only had a 10cc one! I asked "I don't want to see that one, do I?" and she said "Nope"! If the shots don't work long enough, it'll be a TKR for me. Hopefully, the combination of the shots and the Arthrotec (spelled it wrong before!) will do the trick. Loujean >Don't mean to be picky, but how does your knee being sore require one-handed >typing? I'm trying to picture you typing with your knees. LOL [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >> Throw that FISH out and >> put in an S to email me. Loujean Retired and love it. Throw that FISH out and put in an S to email me. > Don't mean to be picky, but how does your knee being sore require > one-handed > typing? I'm trying to picture you typing with your knees. LOL > > DeeTee uhhhhh, errrrr . . . maybe it's the knee in the middle of her arm, deetee. ô¿ô kate (mine's in the middle of my forehead, doncha know.) > ________________________________ > DeeTee and Bob Taggart [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] >> Throw that FISH out and >> put in an S to email me. Yep, rejection from the robot factory. (snicker, snicker ouch) Loujean >> Don't mean to be picky, but how does your knee being sore require >> one-handed [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] >>> Throw that FISH out and >>> put in an S to email me. Loujean Retired and love it. Throw that FISH out and put in an S to email me. >I use Norton Internet Security 2005 and run Windows XP with Service > Pack 2 and have had no problems with it. I update when it tells me to [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > repair department at Best Buy). :-) > Loujean That is the set up I use also. I have used the services of the boys down at Best Buy also and my youngest son got soooo mad at me for doing it. He wants to make any and all of the changes on the wife's and my computer. I told him that when something happens and I do not see him for a month,,,,, someone else will have to do the work. So it goes. Harv >>I use Norton Internet Security 2005 and run Windows XP with Service >> Pack 2 and have had no problems with it. I update when it tells me to [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >someone else will have to do the work. So it goes. >Harv That's for sure. Loujean Retired and love it. Throw that FISH out and put in an S to email me. Zone Alarm is what I use, and it is good. Gwen > > whew! YAAAAY!!! i'm no longer using the firewall that came with this > > computer/ xp. not using any firewall now. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Kelly C.-not advertising, advising.;o) guess i'll be going web shopping for zone alarm, then. thanx gwen. kate > Zone Alarm is what I use, and it is good. > Gwen [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >> >> Kelly C.-not advertising, advising.;o) >guess i'll be going web shopping for zone alarm It is free! Visit my website: http://www.mzuschlag.com downloaded it. thanx, kid! kate >> whew! YAAAAY!!! i'm no longer using the firewall that came with this >> computer/ xp. not using any firewall now. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Kelly C.-not advertising, advising.;o) Wonder if Zonealarm would work. I don't read the newsgroup on my pc which is where Zonealarm is loaded [XP]. It was the one Larry used to recommend and I have the paid version which I like alot. Once and awhile it will not play well with Norton but it is Norton that crashs and burns. It seems to work fine there but again, not reading newsgroup. What are you using to read the group? Also, are you running Service Pack 1 or 2 on Microsoft's XP? Duckie > whew! YAAAAY!!! i'm no longer using the firewall that came with this > computer/ xp. not using any firewall now. > > kate > Wonder if Zonealarm would work. I don't read the newsgroup on my pc which > is where Zonealarm is loaded [XP]. It was the one Larry used to recommend [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > XP? > Duckie i use giganews through outlook express to read asa; and running service pack2 on xp. does it make a difference with zonealarm? kate >> whew! YAAAAY!!! i'm no longer using the firewall that came with this >> computer/ xp. not using any firewall now. >> >> kate rofl I've got no idea. I am using Netscape on the mac to read the newsgroup. And my pc I am running service pack 1 on XP Duckie > i use giganews through outlook express to read asa; and running service > pack2 on xp. does it make a difference with zonealarm? > > kate I used to have zonealarm on my PC many moons ago. I was running Windoze 98se and it conflicted with it so I had to remove it. Now I'm a Mac person and life is so calm. No more blue screens of death, no more 'this program has performed an illegal operation', etc. Once you go Mac, you'll never go back :) Carole :) who LOVES her little iBook :) > rofl I've got no idea. I am using Netscape on the mac to read the > newsgroup. And my pc I am running service pack 1 on XP [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> >> kate Kate I had the same problem a while back and had to turn off my firewall. dont have one on now and I hope it doesnt cause all kind of spyware or whatever it is suppose to stop. janice | just got off the phone with comcast---long and tedious process. it appears | my firewall went kaplooie or something, because it started interfering with [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] | | kate > Kate I had the same problem a while back and had to turn off my firewall. > dont have one on now and I hope it doesnt cause all kind of spyware or > whatever it is suppose to stop. > janice well, thanx to kelly, now you and i know where we can get zone alarm free. i have no idea what it does either, janice. kate > | just got off the phone with comcast---long and tedious process. it > appears [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > | > | kate Looks like you got the numbers back in your addy too. Duckie > just got off the phone with comcast---long and tedious process. it appears > my firewall went kaplooie or something, because it started interfering with [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > kate  Signature_('> (_<_) _ _('< -quack (_<_) _ __('< *QUACK!* <_{__) _('< "|,,|_" (_<_) _('< "AFLAC!" (_<_) |
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