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To: Kayaker who wrote (23709)	12/11/2001 6:32:58 AM
From: thecow	Read Replies (2) of 110655

Kayaker As an update to our discussion a couple of days ago I ran across a warning about some unusual apps connecting to the internet. "ZoneAlarm and ZoneAlarm Pro will often recognize MS Word and/or Excel as requesting access to the Internet" Just beware if the message is Notepad attempting to connect to the Internet.... symantec.com see also.... >>> "Lately I’ve become quite fond of personal firewalls that perform active monitoring of outbound connections, such as ZoneAlarm and Norton Personal Firewall. Again, consider QAZ: it hijacks the NOTEPAD.EXE executable. An infected machine will still run Notepad, but each invocation will make a connection to the Internet. Personal firewalls that monitor outbound connections will raise an alert; seeing a dialog with the notice "Notepad is attempting to connect to the Internet" should arouse anyone’s suspicions." <<< sans.org Sometimes it really is a real warning. tc

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