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Posted by Richard Urban on February 12, 2006, 11:05 pm
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I disagree with RJK occasionally, but he is allowed to post opinion as well
as the rest of us - and he doesn't need anyone's permission to do so!
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Regards,
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
> Very interesting post - no questions , only opinion ...
>
> If you would like some kind of help ,please include the following info in
> your post:
>
> 1) Operating System - name and Service Pack level
> 2) The status of Automatic updates and do you have ALL updates from
> http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
>
> 3) Antivirus software (security suit) -> name ,kind ,version ,updates...
> 4) Antispyware software -> name ,kind ,version ,updates...
>
> 5) RAM amount, processor speed
> 6) Do you have malware detected? What did your security softwares do?
> 7) Explain clearly what you did
> 8) Explain CLEARLY the problem (please ,don't use hmmm ,mmmm ,nnnn
> ,xxxx,zzzz) :-)
> 9) ASK QUESTIONS . Do not include opinion when you have problems
>
>
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> Thank you very much ! Keep in mind the more info you give the more acurate
> answer you'll have.You are now welcome to post and have an answer ! :) :)
> :)
>
>
> Panda_man
> --
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>
> "RJK" wrote:
>
>> ....with hindsight xxx was a poor choice of syntax, perhpas I should
>> have
>> used nnn in my OP.
>>
>> regards, Richard
>>
>>
>> >I did a search with Google - something like xxx "full review" "in stock"
>> >where xxx is a brand name and/or model no. of a flat screen display
>> >panel, as I've been reading all about different ones, (and finally
>> >ordered
>> >one / a WEEK that took to decide), - and got a page full of links, as
>> >you
>> >do. The 2nd or 3rd on that I clicked on yielded a page full of, ...how
>> >shall I describe it...? ...umm... peoples private parts....very large
>> >ones too ! Gosh! I thought, ...is that trick photography or have some
>> >people really got ones that big ? !!!
>> >
>> > The page just finished loading and my internet security package slapped
>> > a
>> > warning box on top of it to tell me that it had killed a
>> > "MSO..???...exploit" where ??? is the part that I can't remember, and I
>> > can't find a record of it in my internet security suite.
>> >
>> > I remember reading somewhere that this "exploit" thingy was taken care
>> > of
>> > in a XP update ages ago, and was it something to do with a cookie or
>> > something stored in a temp folder somewhere.
>> >
>> > Anyway, my security suite, the a/v program I think, advised that it had
>> > killed it and that to "finish and clean-up" I should now reboot - that
>> > was
>> > inconvenient.
>> >
>> > Anyone know why I had to reboot ? Sorry for not taking exact details
>> > of
>> > whatever it was.
>> >
>> > ps I'm two days into on a 15 day trial of Zonealarm Internet Security
>> > Suite 6.1.737.000 and am pretty sure I'm going to buy it, it's VERY
>> > impressive, (excluding that recent 'old' "exploit" vulnerability
>> > detection - that's not what's impressed me). It's doesn't seem to slow
>> > the system right down like several others I've tried, including
>> > Computer
>> > Associates Internet Security Suite, (which seems to contain Zonealarm
>> > anyway), and which only seemed to do half a job, and when the CA server
>> > was down and I had to uninstall and reinstall it, and because it
>> > couldn't
>> > communicate with its' home site goodness how many times - to do with
>> > synchronizing a license), it misbehaved and almost took out my Windows
>> > platform with it ! I tried Zonealarm "free" and AVG "free" and MSAS
>> > beta1
>> > for a few days- wasn't happy with them. Panda Titanium internet
>> > security
>> > suite 2006 introduced delays throughout my whole system. Having got
>> > used
>> > to an almost instantaneous response when doing things on my PC, I
>> > couldn't
>> > adjust to having Panda in there. It had to go !
>> >
>> > I haven't looked into it, (haven't the time), and I'm sure I've seen
>> > mention somewhere that Steve Gibson (and obviously his skills in
>> > assembler), are connected with Zonealarm. If so that would explain
>> > its'
>> > speed of course.
>> >
>> > regards, Richard
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