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sygate ..and explorer.exe ?
Name: cccl Date: August 16, 2002 at 17:33:01 Pacific
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hi ..people..all great?
i donīt know too much of firewalls..( honestly i donīt know nothing), but i install sygate , and im just tryin it, just got one dought, .. i know that sygate will ask for everytime i start a new program that needs to conect to the net, ..and firewall is asking me if explorer.exe can acess the net, is it normal? should i give permission? ( donīt take me wrongh if im doing a stupid question, like i said im just starting), the icon is not the famous e of the browser .. is the icon of the {my computer}...
Name: Norm Date: August 16, 2002 at 17:40:18 Pacific
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Check this out
http://grc.com/unpnp/unpnp.htm
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Response Number 2
Name: cccl Date: August 16, 2002 at 17:52:04 Pacific
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i went there.. but what is it about?..
gonna save de page for reading later..but what do u mean? anyone help?..should give permission to explorer.exe ( itīs trusted file?) ...just starting and getting confused...
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Response Number 3
Name: Norm Date: August 16, 2002 at 18:07:31 Pacific
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Don't give explorer acess. read up a litte, short on time.
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Response Number 4
Name: Norm Date: August 16, 2002 at 18:17:05 Pacific
Name: Jim Beau Date: August 16, 2002 at 18:17:39 Pacific
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I have Sygate 5.0 free firewall.It is my preferred free firewall program.It's a great idea to read up on links like the one norm posted so that you get a good idea of what the programs are that ask for internet connection.Some are necessary,some are not.Another good tool for testing your firewall and it's set-up is shields up(it's on the link that norm posted).Regards,JB
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Response Number 6
Name: Norm Date: August 16, 2002 at 18:39:16 Pacific
Name: cccl Date: August 16, 2002 at 19:40:01 Pacific
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gonna follow your advices..and reading the websites..thankss again
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Response Number 8
Name: cccl Date: August 16, 2002 at 20:00:21 Pacific
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its me again, sorry,,
and thereīs another winXP files that maybe we should not give acess, for example that ones that are the first to ask for acess when we start using a firewall ( Llke Generic Host Proc...)?
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Response Number 9
Name: TheKid Date: August 16, 2002 at 22:21:23 Pacific
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I also use Sygate,just deny it access.
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Response Number 10
Name: tinkerbong Date: August 17, 2002 at 04:06:35 Pacific
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Norm posted the link to an earlier discussion of this problem, ( http://www.computing.net/security/wwwboard/forum/432.html )
Response 16 gets to the heart of the matter and a cure for same. A regedit fix to seperate the IE explorer process from the windows explorer process.
Setting IE to browse in a new process ( ie; seperate from Window's explorer.exe) clears up the firewall conundrum and in most cases smoothes out other windows functions too.
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Response Number 11
Name: Norm Date: August 17, 2002 at 06:55:11 Pacific
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