Hi John, Your statement:

...placing any faith in out-of-date firewalls is quite a dangerous trick.

You would rely on threat data weeks, or even months, old

indicates that you have made an incorrect assumption about how ZoneAlarm works. ZoneAlarm does *not* use a threat list. It disallows *all* programs access to the internet unless you tell ZoneAlarm it is OK for a particular program to do so. You build this list of programs that are allowed to access the internet *once* (in a very convenient way -- by inserting a check in a box when it first tries to access the internet) and add to the list only when you install a new program on your machine. You can edit the list of allowed and disallowed programs at any time. Please also see my recent post to [Peter] on [Fractint] and [Philofractal] for further details about how ZoneAlarm works. I hope this helps your understanding of ZoneAlarm. - Hal Lane ######################### # hallane@earthlink.net # ######################### ---------------------------------------------------

Message: 9 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:26:07 -0700 From: "John Wilson" <juanw@telus.net> Subject: Re: [Fractint] Re: Mark and WinDoZe 98 To: "Fractint and General Fractals Discussion" <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Message-ID: <011b01c6a6f5$43129f10$dc44facd@JohnW> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Seems to me that placing any faith in out-of-date firewalls is quite a dangerous trick. You would rely on threat data weeks, or even months, old? You could lose friends that way! You can at least discover if you are in trouble by freqquently using an on-line scan of your machine such as ...

www.auditmypc.com/

https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

www.dslreports.com/scan

John W. ----- Original Message ----- From: RENRAD1@aol.com To: fractint@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 7:16 PM Subject: Re: [Fractint] Re: Mark and WinDoZe 98

In a message dated 7/13/06 6:46:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Paul.N.Lee@Worldnet.att.net writes: if you can find it somewhere, this might be a solution for a while. At least until you can finally upgrade. Thanks very much, Paul, I'll go 'mining for legacies' and see if the version is around.

Cheers! peter S.