[AT] OT virus warning

[charlie hill]

That's basically what I do David.  There are some things that I know I want 
to let access the web that I give clearance to.  Most things I tell it ZA to 
ask me and other things I have "X'd" out.

It's all way to confusing and time consuming.

While I've go everyone on this off topic can someone tell me (off list is 
fine) how to move some of my less often used and larger programs to my 
external drive in such a way that my computer knows to look for them there 
and run them from there.  I'm starting to run out of HD space on my notebook 
and I have a BIG USB hard drive sitting here doing nothing most of the time. 
This Toshiba notebook won't let me move or copy the operating system to the 
external drive.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bruce" <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT virus warning


> Charlie,
> One thing I do is deny the access until I know I need it.  If the need
> is real (to me) then I'll have ZA remember to allow.  BTW I have a long
> list of programs that want to connect but I block (many are Microsoft
> programs - I'm sorry but I don't see the need of Windows Explorer
> automatically having internet access).
> I'm with you, using the program names I would always be lost.
> David
> NW NC
>
> charlie hill wrote:
>> Mike,  In my case it wasn't a matter of the router getting slow it was 
>> just
>> slower than being hardwired to the modem.  I couldn't run things like
>> streaming audio or video on the router.  I decided I'd rather be tied to 
>> the
>> wall and have the extra speed so I disconnected it.
>>
>> Zone Alarm does a great job of controlling what gets in and out.  The
>> problem comes with actually trying to figure out what some of these 
>> programs
>> that want to access the Internet are.  As David said, everything from 
>> your
>> mouse and printers to, in my case, some of my business software 
>> constantly
>> want access to the web.  The programs names that show up on the Zone 
>> Alarm
>> list often are not familiar to me.  Sometimes I try searching for them
>> online.  I still can't always figure them out  and when I can I'm often 
>> not
>> sure if it's something I can block access to without causing a problem.
>> Believe me,  when I have only a few minutes to get a very big file
>> transmitted in PDF format, I don't want to start trying to remember what 
>> I
>> turned off or limited access to a week before.
>>
>> The current list on my Zone Alarm of programs that want access to the
>> Internet numbers into well over 100.  I just don't know where to start or
>> how to sort them out.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>>
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