[NCLUG] No more ball and ipchains & Microsoft Hate Mail(TM)

[B O'Fallon]

thorson at aster.com wrote:

>  WindowsFU is making connections to strange computers on the net while my wife is 'logged' on and
> goes away when logged off.

May I suggest that you download and install ZoneAlarm (www.zonealarm.com) on the Windows machine? It's
free, and is designed to block transmissions from the system unless they are specifically allowed by
the user, and from the number of reviews its gotten, must be pretty good at this.

Another thing you might want to do is go to Gibson's Research site(www.grc.com) and use some of his
diagnostics against your system. He was at one time compiling a list of companies that pull this sort
of stunt and had developed a program (optout) to tell if they had anything on your system.

BOF