Re: Puzzled: EVERYTHING tries to get out to internet

From: knowmoor (bogus_at_unwantedspam.com)
Date: 03/16/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 20:33:33 -0800

Yeah, I've heard many things about Symantec products having problems with
ZoneAlarm, but with Systemworks 2002 and earlier NAV products I've always
had no trouble. Since putting this vile monster called Systemworks 2004
(make a .zip file, then copy or move said .zip file to another HD or CD-R,
NAV HAS to scan it EVERY FRICKIN' TIME from creation to copy--adds at least
twice the time to the task!).

Spybot turned up no malicious threats, nor did Hijack This show any active
processes that didn't appear to be accounted for. I've disabled NAV's
auto-protect to see what will happen; so far ZA's logs are pretty quiet;
except for the internet-accessible apps that are supposed to show up blocked
there, other apps that don't use internet access (unless Freecell has a
massively multi-player mode I was previously unaware of, for example) are
not hitting on ZA's list.

"lyle" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ac5801c40ae6$896a7df0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> 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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