Eureka! Why?

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Mark Durrenberger

I have been having strange network problems:

1. Macafee Instant updater was giving error 202 - network connection not
found
2. Office 2003 Activator - similar message - I had to activate via phone
3. Quicken 2003 could not complete the download of transactions from my bank
(after downloading transactions it tries to tell the bank something - that
part failed)

Thought I'd messed something up on my network settings.

What I've learned:

I installed Zone Alarm a few months ago, but only use it when I modem to the
network otherwise I shut it down (actually took it out of my startup folder)
because I'm usually behind a hardware firewall on a cable connection or a
DSL connection.

Despite the fact that Zone Alarm was not running, it seemed to be
"filtering" the above mentioned traffic. (TrueVector?) Why do I know this?
Because after uninstalling ZA, all three problems went away.

I'm posting this discovery here so others searching to solve similar bizarre
network problems won't waste as much time as I have today.

Now does anyone know of a less intrusive (latent) software firewall I can
use when traveling and dialing up to the net?

Thanks,
Mark
 
On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 13:13:53 -0500, Mark Durrenberger wrote:
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I installed Zone Alarm a few months ago, but only use it when I modem to the
network otherwise I shut it down (actually took it out of my startup folder)
because I'm usually behind a hardware firewall on a cable connection or a
DSL connection.
[snip]

Now does anyone know of a less intrusive (latent) software firewall I can
use when traveling and dialing up to the net?
Click to expand...
Not much experience with firewalls. I tried ZA myself awhile back when I
was on ISDN... I didn't have much trouble with it. OTOH, I've heard good
things about "Tiny Personal Firewall" (TPFW) but I don't know much about
it, including where to get it. I think it was freeware though.
 
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