Re: [PCWorks] A tip for stopping annoying harassing "slide-ups" (a kind of pop-up) immune to pop-up blockers
- From: "John O'Flynn" <bofak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:49:07 -0500
It was the ISP who pointed out the conflict when we tried to find out
why we could no longer get on line. He said various of his other
customers had the same problem and it was caused by the recent XP patch.
Now comes the really violent bit. He said kill ZA. I killed ZA.
Everything worked fine, but I felt uneasy with nothing but the lousy
firewall in XP so I installed Comodo. Everything still worked fine and
still does. I'll deal with any other violent conflicts if and as they
arise. I'm quite good at those. But I'm not saddling up and riding out
on Google looking for them.
This happened on a dial-up connection in a little place out in the
sticks, but that laptop is also used on high-speed and wireless
connections, and my wife says there is no way she's going to run it
without a good firewall. I quite agree.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: [PCWorks] A tip for stopping annoying harassing "slide-ups"
(a kind of pop-up) immune to pop-up blockers
> Hee hee. You can also do a search for "[fill in blank]
> problem" and also find hundreds of thousands, even millions of
> results. LOL. Norton, Symantec, Sygate, Outpost, Kaspersky,
> Zone Alarm, etc., you name it.
>
> Yeah, it's just a matter of time before an "XP patch violently
> conflicts" with any of them.
> -Clint
>
> Happy Thanksgiving to all and God Bless
> Clint Hamilton, Owner
> http://www.OrpheusComputing.com
> http://www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hugh Vandervoort"
>
>
> How long before an XP patch "violently conflicts" with Comodo?
> Google shows 523,000 hits for "Comodo Problem". :)
> Happy Thanksgiving to all.
>
>
> John O'Flynn wrote:
>
> >> Precisely, Hugh.
> >> That is the bottom line of this entire thread!
> >>
> >
> > I was wondering when we would see the bottom line :-)
> >
> > But before it all gets laid to rest (or to give the pot
> > another stir), I
> > want to put in two more cents worth:
> >
> > (1) Firewalls: Back in the summer I installed Comodo on my
> > wife's
> > laptop when an XP patch conflicted violently with ZoneAlarm,
> > and ZA had
> > to be replaced pronto. I chose Comodo because of its
> > excellent
> > reputation, and I can report that it deserves all the praise
> > it got. It
> > is a fine program, logically arranged and easy to use.
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