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| Thread ID: 37401 | 2003-09-06 05:09:00 | bbc news and Zone Alarm interface | Misty (368) | Press F1 |
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| 173344 | 2003-09-06 05:09:00 | I was looking at the bbc news online and got a pop-up message from ZoneAlarm to say that it had blocked the bbc from accessing the ports. I would think that if the bbc news wanted to access one of my ports then it was probably for an innocent and good reason ? Why would this be ? I guess that it would not be too painful ! Presumably I can add bbc news to "trusted sites" on ZoneAlarm (when I have worked out how to do this). Should I bother ie is it worthwhile ? Any comments would be valued. Misty :) |
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| 173345 | 2003-09-07 00:43:00 | I have since gone into IE - internet options - security - and identified bbc news as a "trusted site". Also will do this with Mozilla Firebird when I track down where to do this. However I think that these actions are probably different from doing the same on ZoneAlarm ( free version) ? Also still cannot think why bbc news would need to access my ports ? Misty ?:| |
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| 173346 | 2003-09-07 01:26:00 | the site could be checking to see if you have a media player running that will accept streaming video. what ports was the site trying to access? |
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| 173347 | 2003-09-07 01:57:00 | Hi tweak'e Yes, that would be it - because I wanted to run a video from bbc . Anyway, regardless of ZoneAlarm blocking the attempt to check the video ran on Real Network program . I have not been able to check the port concerned as have since updated ZoneAlarm and the log entries have disappeared in the upgrade . cheers Misty :) |
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