Re: warning conficker clever- "cleaned" but disabling MS firewalls, et

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"engrcharlie" <engrcharlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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However,
I still can only get on the internet on occasion. Windows Firewall, if
selected "no exceptions" becomes closed and not re-startable after some
time
after restarting computer. Not only this, but if exceptions are allowed,
something is still adding exceptions and checking the boxes. I am also
using
ZoneAlarm firewall, but whatever it is, is somehow capable of either going
around it or adding a "loopback" zone which is "trusted". And yes, on the
rare occasions each day I can get internet to work by some combination of
ending processes or just luck, I do update windows, IE, and each
antivirus,
so this is with the latest any of these antiviruses have come up with.

I doubt very much whether the problems you are experiencing are much to do
with conficker.
It is almost certain that what you are seeing is the result of trying to run
two firewalls together.
Try turning off Zone Alarm all together and use just the Windows Firewall.
Then see if you still get issues.
If you don't, try running Zone Alarm with Windows Firewall switched off -
and see if you get any issues.
Then decide which you are going to use, and stick with just one!

Alister


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