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sygate firewall automatic update
Name: wgm Date: January 6, 2004 at 02:59:45 Pacific OS: Win ME or XP CPU/Ram: Pent 4
Comment:
Hi there, I am using sygate personal firewall and have it set on automatically check for updates. So far it has done just that and notified me if there was an update, which I then installed. After I update I usually get a warning "sygate has changed since last use and is trying to access the Net... Do you want to allow...". This is ok. However this morning I got that message after going online. The only thing is it has not been updated since I last logged on unless it did it automatically without notifying me. So I disallowed it to access the Net and tried to find out whether Sygate would update itself without me knowing? Does anyone else know this or do I have to worry some other program has altered my firewall? Thanks for any thoughts.
Name: haroonkhalid Date: January 6, 2004 at 13:02:13 Pacific
Reply:
if you set it on auto update...THEN HELLO it will AUTO UPDATE!
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Response Number 2
Name: wgm Date: January 6, 2004 at 13:09:35 Pacific
Reply:
Well said but that is my point: it hasn't done so in the past: It CHECKED for updates but did not autoinstall - it informed. Does it auto-install?
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Response Number 3
Name: capt Date: January 6, 2004 at 17:37:11 Pacific
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It just notifies you of an update, you manually install it. I believe this is done for your security and safety. Zone Alarm's auto update works the same way.
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Response Number 4
Name: wgm Date: January 7, 2004 at 12:41:36 Pacific
Reply:
So how can I check what changed it? Do I have to worry it was changed by some malicious program?
Summary: Yesterday I reformatted&reinstalled XP then when I tried to download the "Windows Updates" I found that I could not. I suspected Sygate firewall may have been interfering so I temporarily disabled the...
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