Hello Again I just realized that in my first post I assumed that your Uncle had all the current service packs installed. If he does not he will probably not have a firewall. You will know if he does or not when you try to turn it off. James =============== At 01:33 PM 7/11/2005, you wrote: >Hi, > >I will be calling my uncle tonight and he wants me to send him some >protective type programs which I have and will send. He is pretty new to >computers though. He knows he has antivirus (Nortons) on his computer but >does not know about a firewall. I believe he has windows xp, home. What is >the easiest way for me to find out by phone with him if he has a firewall? >Doesnt windows automatically put some kind on your computer. It seems I >turned mine off before in order to just use zone alarm which is what I am >sending him, the free version. If his windows firewall is on, do I have to >cut it off before using zone alarm? > >Thanks, >christy > >I put these same programs on my other uncle's computer and he has had no >problems since, zonealarm, adaware SE, spyware guard, spyblaster, cleanup.. >for some reason my spybot SD would not be accepted favorably on his >computer, kept getting some error so gave up on that one. > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Don" <dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx> >To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 12:40 PM >Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Pay Pal Fraud Email Received today > > > >I get emails like that all the time... I forward them all to > > spoof@<Domain>.com. I figure they are in a better position to tracjk > > them > > down than I am. > > > > Don > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Tech Rose - LoveBytes" <TechRose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 11:57 PM > > Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Pay Pal Fraud Email Received today > > > > > >> Hi all! > >> > >> I thought I would warn everyone. > >> > >> I received an email today that 'looked' like it was from PayPal. > > > > -- > > <Please delete this line and everything below.> > > > > To unsub or change your email settings: > > //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > > > > To access our Archives: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ > > //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ > > > > > > > > >-- ><Please delete this line and everything below.> > >To unsub or change your email settings: >//www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > >To access our Archives: >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ >//www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/