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| 406811 | 2005-11-23 07:59:00 | Now that Slingshot has introduced it's "Spinach" Antispyware, I've gone and bought into this system while running the latest update of Zone Alarm at the same time. Zone Alarm is fine, never had a problem with that, but this Spinach has me guessing. :confused: Since losing the automatic ability to click on a URL in email and have it connect automatically in a browser, I've turned off the automatic scan at startup for I noticed that heaps of numerically labelled objects were quarantined without me ever knowing what they were. The only option was to unquarantine all of them if I had noticed something was awry. :waughh: Now, having deleted my quarantine list that Spinach has caught, many useful objects like the one mentioned above have disappeared. :stare: Should I be using two Anti-Spywares side by side? and Is there any way to recover the automatic URL opener into any of my browsers without having to re-installeither of them? Thanking any wjo may reply in anticipation of your good help, :) eef2. |
eef2 (1904) | ||
| 406812 | 2005-11-23 08:09:00 | How many browsers are installed? Try making IE the default browser, if u use OE. And if they're AV programs as well, then no, its not a good idea running more than 1 at the same time. If both scan email for example. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 406813 | 2005-11-23 08:19:00 | Yeah, it is all right to run more than one AntiSpyware side-by-side (e.g. Microsoft's AntiSpyware, Slingshot's "Spinach", Lavasoft Ad-aware etc. etc.). As long as you take proper care with the resident shield, I think running more than one Antivirus shouldn't be an issue. Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 406814 | 2005-11-23 08:23:00 | Thanks for your speedy (urghum) reply, Speedy. I have Firefox 1.7.12 and IE 6 installed. In ZoneAlarm, I have turned off email attachment protection, and I don't think Spinach does an email scan. My AV is seperate from those, being V-Com's version 5 of Fix-It. which I've always been happy with. I can have IE now selected as my default browser without security worries now that I have "Foxie" installed. It makes IE think that it's Firefox ( HAHAHA. :thumbs: ) and has a firewall of it's own. So I'll give that a try. To get here, I had to right click in your auto email to me the URL to post this reply. TA. Oh, the music tells me that someone else has replied to my post. Must away now to read that. Thanks again, eef2. |
eef2 (1904) | ||
| 406815 | 2005-11-23 08:28:00 | What is the resident shield, James? Is that the firewall? No, I have been advised that more than one AV running at once is a bad thing. :annoyed: See Speedy's post to me, for example. But thanks, anyway. eef2 |
eef2 (1904) | ||
| 406816 | 2005-11-23 08:37:00 | If you have more than one AV program running it maybe OK . BUT if both scan for incoming and/or outgoing email, then they may clash . Resident shield, I'm guessing is like Mcafees, or Nortons auto-protect feature? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 406817 | 2005-11-23 08:50:00 | Oh, OK. 2 AV email scans no good only. UH huh. My Firewall is ZoneAlarm. Still cannot get URLs to auto-click over into browser even after having enabled IE as the default (ugh). :horrified eef2 |
eef2 (1904) | ||
| 406818 | 2005-11-23 09:14:00 | Try this Click Start -> Run, and then type in regsvr32 urlmon.dll Then see if the links work. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 406819 | 2005-11-23 21:45:00 | Thanks for your speedy (urghum) reply, Speedy. I have Firefox 1.7.12 and IE 6 installed. I can have IE now selected as my default browser without security worries now that I have "Foxie" installed. It makes IE think that it's Firefox ( HAHAHA. :thumbs: ) and has a firewall of it's own. What has a firewall of its own? And thats a bad move - use Firefox NOT IE. Ie will not "think its firefox". And having another browser installed but not used does not make IE any more secure. Its just like having 2 doors in the house, one thats locked and one thats wide open. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 406820 | 2005-11-24 07:06:00 | Well thanks for suggestions, all. Methinks it is problem solved. Before I saw your last post, Speedy, and thanks for the idea for I did try it as well, the url clicking came right when I thought of the right keyword to enter into Firefox's "about:config" - Now there's something that IE hasn't got (apart from, perhaps, regsvr32 urlmon.dll). In the about:config, I entered "external" as a keyword for the filter to throw up all the external variables. Then, I just reset all the emboldened entries which showed up as "user defined". This put them back to their defaults. Then,without having to start the browser again, I successfully clicked a URL in my email, and lo and behold, it worked! I suspect that anti-spyware had a hand in altering this configuration. To pctek, Have you ever tried "Foxie"? It can be found under "www.getfoxie.com." NB NOT foxie.com as it is an adult website! Go in there, and type "firewall" after pressing CTL+F, and you will see what I mean. This will probably finalise the thread unless anyone else has any more comments. eef2 |
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