FL310

Thanks, I finally got a reply from the email I sent to "Arora" - it was the uncle of a guy I used to work with and who used me to send messages to his nephew. He hadn't realised that he had been "hit" and I sent him a copy of a file someone passed to me to kill the PrettyPark worm. (anyone wants a copy, email me - but if you need it please don't put me in your address book - I'm getting that one sent to me once every two days - I must have "unclean" friends!)

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Flight Sims, very expensive toys - but real fun to play with!

Anon-X.

Sorry for the delay in replying. You can get the latest beta here.

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Five sodding minutes! It's enough to make you click the ads out of sheer boredom.....aha!

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GG.

Set security levels to 'high; suggest you DON'T allow automatic access to any program unless it won't work without it (so you know that none of your programs can access the internet "behind your back"); switch off notification and get on with enjoying the internet.

If you want a good FAQ, (I'm tempted) click here. It has a good section on ZoneAlarm and the writer makes it easy reading.

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Five sodding minutes! It's enough to make you click the ads out of sheer boredom.....aha!

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Max,

thanks for the FAQ address.

blackie

Ta Max.....much appreciated.

GG :)

News from the firewall newsgroup:

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If one uses port 67 as the source port of a TCP or UDP scan, ZoneAlarm will let the packet through and will not notify the user. This means,that one can TCP or UDP port scan a ZoneAlarm protected computer as if there were no firewall there IF one uses port 67 as the source port on the packets.

<Snip>

Apparently the latest beta closes this loophole. The url is in one of my posts above. Suggest you download it!

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World Time will update the time automatically when you log on if you check the :"I am using a modem" box under "Network Preferences"- you don't need to marry it with Atomic time.

The list of cities is good.

Slasher,

I haven't forgotten about posting my non-standard checklist for fixing a broken Win98 AutoUpdate. Been a bit busy, will get to it ASAP.

AA

AUSATCO - Many thanks.

Has anybody out there used both ZA and Black Ice and care to compare the advantages and disadvantages of both programs?

Yeh thanks AUS. No hurry.

wingslevel - i don't think blackice is much cop - they are currently refunding my money due to the bugs in the program.
just about to try zonealarm

Slasher,

I've written up my method for fixing a broken Windows Update. In the delay between when I first posted and now, I've found out a bit more but not enough to make a nice tidy short checklist. It runs to 9 pages! (including explanations)

I don't think I should post it here fro two reasons

1 It is too long

2 It is a cut and paste of three articles from Microsoft's knowledge base, and all their stuff is copyrighted. Would be the wrong thing to do for me and the Captain to have it appear here.

I'll email it to you and if anyone else is interested I'll email it to them too - just express interest here.

If anyone's interested, the MS Knowledge Base articles are Q193657, Q243787 and Q195155. There's other stuff there on the same subject. www.microsoft.com , and follow the links through Support. Search on windows update and also java.

AA

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I downloaded ZA after reading this thread. I've had it for 3-4 days now; I've noticed that I get the most alerts when I'm on pprune...strange (2 alerts in last 15 mins).

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rgds Rat

Excuse my ignorance chaps but could some tell me what is meant by the term Trojan, as used at the begining of this posting.

Thank you

FBW.

Try reading this.