[AT] OT virus warning

[Paul]

I guess I am not going to Portland either, been stuck in Silverthorne, CO 
for 4 days now, truck broke down.  Anyway, I bought a Maxtor external USB 
drive for back up purposes, software came with it, for backup and running 
programs from it, I know that any time I change a file on my hd, it is 
johnny on the spot to refresh the backed up file.  I have learned a lot from 
this thread, I had been running a router just for firewall, for several 
years, and turn off windows, I am also running AGV.  I do ADAWARE scans, and 
use JV16 tools to clean up junk that accumulates.  I can not believe how 
some programs install things that do NOT get uninstalled if you decide not 
to use their program.  Boils down to a full time job almost to keep a 
computer up and trouble free

Have a good day, Paul Waugh - IN
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT virus warning


> 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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