RE: Puzzled: EVERYTHING tries to get out to internet

From: lyle (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:37:53 -0800

norton sometimes has "issues" with other firewall apps and
can get a bit buggy. and have you scanned with spybot from
safer-networking.org, update ,scan on easy and check for
spywares. maybe symantec.com techs can give an answer. can
you disable norton and see what happens?

>-----Original Message-----
>According to ZAPro, every program or process launched on
this machine tries
>to get out to the internet, including those that have no
online capabilities
>whatsoever. Thinking that ZoneAlarm was bugging out on
me, I've
>uninstalled/reinstalled it but it continues to show
programs not previously
>authorized to do so as attempting to access the internet
(via the alert
>popups). This affects older apps, or new apps that
could've been installed
>five minutes ago; all, according to ZA, attempt to get to
the web.
>
>Can't find any virii, worms or trojans through the usual
NAV2004 scans, and
>nothing out of the ordinary is listed in the task manager,
or in the
>system.ini or win.ini files.
>
>Perhaps NAV2004 vs ZAPro cat-fighting? I'm not sure when
this started but
>it could've been around the time that I upgraded to
Systemworks 2004 towards
>the end of last year. Up until now I haven't worried
about it (I just tell
>ZAPro 'No', and that ends it, at least until I read the
Alert menu in ZA and
>see how many apps continually try to access the web each
time they're
>launched). But it DOES bug me. Any ideas would be
appreciated.
>
>TIA
>
>
>.
>

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