Re: Help - Word 2003 opening trouble

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Working from memory, since I'm not at home now:

For web sites, it's usually ZAP's default settings for blocking cookies that
cause the problem. I have to go to the page under Privacy Protection that
lists web sites, and specifically allow cookies for that site. I'm not about
to allow tracking cookies to be saved for every sleazy advertiser on the
web, so the defaults will stay as they are, and I'll deal with the others as
they occur.

For programs, there's a page under Program Control that lets you specify
which ones are allowed to contact the Internet and/or the local (trusted)
zone. I find that checking the "Remember this" box and the Allow button in
the popup for a new or changed program sometimes doesn't save the setting to
this page, so the popups keep recurring until I go in and force it. The
"Components" page that lists all the individual DLLs is worthless -- there
are a gazillion of them, mostly unidentifiable.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
I wish you would tell me the secret settings needed to tame ZAP, as it
drives me crazy. But I agree about NAV. I have found it blessedly
trouble-free, while my husband is constantly fighting with McAfee.
Moreover, I have had a computer virus (worm) exactly once in my
entire computing career: I was lucky enough to contract Blaster
before Symantec pushed the new definitions for it. Luckily I was able
to eradicate it without too much trouble and with no loss of data.


"Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I think the "many stories of disaster" with Norton AV have much in
common with the many complaints about problems with Word or with HP
printer drivers -- each one has such a huge market share that the
absolute number of problems is large, but the number as a percentage
of that software's users is relatively small.

You almost never see anyone post in the newsgroups about how
wonderfully problem-free their software has been.

FWIW, I've used Norton Corporate Edition AV for many years with no
problems. (But it doesn't have an Office Plug-in, for which I'm
grateful.) I wish I could say the same of ZoneAlarm Pro -- it's a
fine firewall and it has blocked every attempt to get access to my
computers, but it's also caused several programs and web sites to
become nearly unusable until I hand-tweaked its settings. Its
"automatic program recognition database" seems to have all of three
or four entries.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.


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