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30456 2002-01-10 02:41:00 Hi again.... thanks for all the excellent advise. I have taken the bull by the horns, and downloaded ZoneAlarm. Better to be safe than sorry.

Thanks everyone ALAN ;-)
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30457 2002-01-10 03:37:00 Quote:

<i>Jury is still out for me. I have installed ZoneAlarm and reaction so far is that it is pretty wet, but seems to do more than BlackIce which just lay there.

It blocked my connection to the NT server on my network, and I couldn't stop it (kind of pissed me off but isn't a major).
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Rob,

I am using ZA for on my laptop for use at office and home. What you need to do is run Zone Alarm, click Security, then Advance.

The add either an IP Range of all your PCs/Servers in office or just add the IP Addresses of your servers.

Best regards
Stan
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30458 2002-01-10 07:12:00 Tiny Personal Firewall is quite nice, it allows you to deny or permit just about anything. With ZA it says 'do you want to let IE access the internet' (or something similar), where as Tiny will say things like do you want to let IE connect to idg.net.nz, and do you want to let IE connect to ads.doublclick.com

JM
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30459 2002-01-10 14:13:00 '...Thursday January 3 2002

WASHINGTON (AP) - Computer hackers, once satisfied to test their skills on large companies, are turning their sights on home computers that are faster, more powerful and less secure than ever before.

Many home computers are now as powerful as business computers, with enough memory and processing power to make them alluring staging areas for wide-scale Internet attacks that affect other computers...'

Full Report at the following:

dailynews.yahoo.com

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