[AccessD] OT: Firewall

John:

I finally got it all cleaned off that machine and I'm going to put Sygate 
personal on there.

Rocky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Clark" <John.Clark at niagaracounty.com>
To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Firewall


> Hey Rocky. First I want to give you a disclaimer; I am way behind with
> my Email reading, and I haven't scanned this whole thread yet...I had
> been thinking of just deleting the whole thread, but checked out the
> first few posts on a whim.
>
> On my daughters' PC, I am having a problem with ZA. From what I can
> tell, it looks as if something got in and messed up the "signature" or
> something. I've tried a reinstall and a fresh install and nothing is
> working. This has worked for years now, so it is definitely something
> odd that is taking place on mine. I am actually considering a total
> format of the PC, because in this case, being my daughters', it is just
> for Internet and games, so I can replace everything on it.
>
> I'm going on to read the rest of this post, so I apologize if this was
> redundant or way off base.
>
> Take care!
>
> John W Clark
>
>>>> bchacc at san.rr.com 10/10/2005 12:05 PM >>>
> Charlotte:
>
> I tried the clean install but it still messed up. Even went through all
>
> their uninstall stuff.  I'm sure it's something peculiar to that
> machine.
> But if I can do a quickie with Sygate that'll be fine, instead of
> messing
> around for another hour or two with Zone Alarm.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rocky
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Charlotte Foust" <cfoust at infostatsystems.com>
> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 8:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Firewall
>
>
>> Rocky,
>>
>> There have been a lot of problems with the 6.x versions of
> ZoneAlarm,
>> but most if not all were solved in the latest build.  The best
> advice
>> seems to be to do a clean install, not an upgrade.  That requires you
> to
>> retrain the critter, but it presents no other problems that I've
>> encountered.  You do need the software firewall to prevent outgoing
>> unauthorized traffic.
>>
>> Charlotte Foust
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky
> Smolin
>> - Beach Access Software
>> Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 8:07 AM
>> To: AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
>> Subject: [AccessD] OT: Firewall
>>
>>
>> I\'m having a huge problem getting Zone Alarm on one of our
> computers
>> I've used it for years with no problem, upgraded this one box from
>> Version 3 to the latest, it blocks internet access and give a page
> full
>> of instructions on how to solve the problem - none of which work.
>>
>> Uninstalled, reinstalled,  cleaned registry per their instructions,
>> renamed the internet log, blah, blah.
>>
>> At the moment the machine is behind the router firewall (like all of
>> them) so I don't know if I should be too concerned but I've always
> run a
>> firewall on each machine in addition to the hardware firewall in the
>> Linksys.
>>
>> I'm not wedded to Zone Alarm and I'm looking at Sygate's product (
>> another free one : http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm)
> .
>> Anyone know about this?  Any other recommendations for a personal
>> firewall?
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>>
>> Rocky
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