Larry S,
You wrote: <<i have both mozilla Firebird .07 and mozilla Firefox .o8>>
I've had Firefox sitting around zipped in a folder for awhile. What can I expect when I run it? Will Firefox 0.8 grab all my Firebird settings, Larry? I'm looking for any heads up you'd care to provide. TIA
A curious thing happened to me with ZoneAlarm. It would let me dial-up and connect but would not let Firebird online. I was completely frozen out. I looked everywhere but there was nothing wrong with my settings and nothing I could do to correct the problem. The only thing I did in a previous session was work on trying to nuke Windows Messenger with a friend over my shoulder helping me through the process.
So, I had to nuke ZA, which wasn't an easy job. I logged onto my Admin account (I never connect to the Internet unless I'm logged on with a Limited User account!) and tried to use Add/Remove programs to get rid of ZoneAlarm. True Vector, or something like that, refused to give up the ghost. I had to go to All Programs/ZoneAlarm and use ZoneAlarm's uninstall. That did the trick.
After consultation, I was encouraged to fire up XP's firewall, which I did. It's probably been discussed before here, but what's the consensus on XP's firewall?
Then I became my friend's crash-test-dummy for a program he'd never run that comes from the Czech Republic, or so I was told, called the Kerio Personal Firewall 4 kerio.com Anybody here heard any Kerio glory/horror stories? It sure looks good on screen! A feature (?) demands password authentication for every change. So far, so good.
Jerry in Omaha
PS -- (Please look away from your screen for a moment, SI Admin Dave)
Kevin Kelly (of Wired mag fame) points to Stewart Brand (of Whole Earth Catalog fame) who points to his old buddy Dr. Bruce Ames here kk.org
I just couldn't resist such a well represented pitch and went and ordered me up some a month ago. I'll only say this, "I don't think I'm in Placebo-ville, that's for sure."
'Nuff said.
Dave, you can look back at your screen now. |
