[geeks] Win32 personal firewall poll

[Phil Stracchino]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 07:04:15AM -0400, james wrote:
> > client and as server, on a program-by-program basis, but I'm getting
> > tired of it occasionally forgetting which programs are supposed to have
> > access (even when they're right there in its configuration) and having
> > to be reminded after every reboot that they're allowed access.  I'd like
> 
> ZA shouldn 't be doing this. Is it possible that you have a ZA-aware
> virus or browser virus?

Unlikely.  The machine is NATTed behind a separate firewall, has
up-to-date antivirus software running, and is virtually never used to
access the 'net.

Not, however, inconceivable, the OS in question being Win2K, a variant
of The OS Family That Never Saw A Virus It Didn't Like.


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