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To: mr.mark who wrote (11673)	9/3/2000 6:16:05 PM
From: Martin E. Frankel	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 110582

Mark and all, I agree with you about the advantages of the right click "scan with NAV". A few questions with hope for some assistance. I am running an old Pentium II 266 with 128megs of ram and UW SCSI hard drives, CD rom, and DAT tape backup using WIN98 SE. Believe it or not, this was the latest and greatest when it was built a couple of years ago. How things change <VBG>!! Thinking of upgrading or just getting a new box which may be cheaper in the long run. Until then, however, I have a few problems that perhaps someone can assist me with. (1) Sometimes (a few times/week) when going to a URL, the Internet Explorer (Ver. 5.0) window will open and the site appears to be opening and then suddenly the computer crashes going into a soft reboot and scan disk. Any idea why as other don't seem to be having the same problem with the same URLs? Yes, I've used CleanSweep and also emptied my cache and history first and it still repeatedly happens with the same URLs. (2) I'm using Zone Alarm as a firewall and it "appears" to work well. Someone appears to be attempting to break into my computer [same # series appears to show up most of the time in the "from" in the Zone Alarm popup window... 167.206.117.190 (been "hit" with it 6 times alone in the past few minutes)... although it does vary occasionally]. Is there anyway to trace who is trying to get in? I mean the actual individual. (3) Since this is a standalone desktop (not networked), is there any advantage to switching to the new Zone Alarm Pro? (4) Are you or anyone else using additional software hacker protection together with Zone Alarm without conflicts... or is their a hardware solution available which is better? Sorry for all the questions. Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Marty