[pct-l] RE: [at-l] RE: OT computer Trouble!!

[andrew at aushiker.com (Andrew Priest)]

At 09:24 AM 30/12/2003, you wrote:
>At 07:52 PM 12/29/2003 -0500, Walter Daniels wrote:
>>All of the Win 9x Os's are no longer supported by MS (Dec 23rd). This means
>>that there will be no more security patches for any of them. At the very
>>least this means that if you want to stay with your current OS (or must
>>because your machine is too old to upgrade to Win 2000) you should install a
>>strong firewall between you and the universe. Either a hardware box or
>>ZoneAlarm, or lookalikes will do. Anything short of doing this makes you a
>>threat to both yourself and the rest of the internet. If you get infected
>>with some of the particularly bad viruses your ISP is likely to drop you.
>
>  I ran Zone Alarm for years then after an upgrade a few months ago both 
> my computers stopped connecting to anything on the 'Net. After a 
> conversation with the support desk for Road Runner we determined that the 
> new version of Zone Alarm in conjunction with Road Runner's firewall was 
> literally stopping *all* Internet traffic.

Pity it didn't shut Road Runner down period ... one of worse offenders in 
terms of feeding spam on to the network and very reluctant to respond.

Andrew


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