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Hi
I have Zone Alarm installed & each time i access the internet or Outlook
express, Zone Alarm asks me if i want it to access.OK but what are all these
other programmes like QUICKEN. EXE & LOADER APPLICATION & many others that
enf in EXE. are these necessary & are they programmes i can erase. I go to
add/remove on control panel & they arent listed under the programmes!
Cheeers

Sorry man but you should not be useing a firewall
You do not know enought to adminerter (sp) it
an *.exe file is an excuatable file
like run word.exe (Microsoft word) will jump into life because that is what
exe files do

I no time if you continue you will start loseing internet access because you
will stop programs accessing the ent

save yourself the hassel and learn more about it'
the help file
zone labs web site
Quicken is an accounting program (should it be accessing the internet
do you even use it
loader is rubbish but it is only being loaded because of other stuff
starting up on the computer



"gary" <> wrote in message
news:budngl$giq$...
> Hi
> I have Zone Alarm installed & each time i access the internet or
Outlook
> express, Zone Alarm asks me if i want it to access.OK but what are all
these
> other programmes like QUICKEN. EXE & LOADER APPLICATION & many others
that
> enf in EXE. are these necessary & are they programmes i can erase. I go
to
> add/remove on control panel & they arent listed under the programmes!
> Cheeers
>
>

What do you mean i shouldn't be using a firewall ? My mate set up my pc
security as i know jack **** about it. He said Zone Alarm is important to
prevent viruses & things accessing. I always get things i don't know asking
on ZA if they have permission accessing the net. Can i delete Quicken &
loader Exe from ZA.
Win <> wrote in message
news:rWuOb.15934$...
> Sorry man but you should not be useing a firewall
> You do not know enought to adminerter (sp) it
> an *.exe file is an excuatable file
> like run word.exe (Microsoft word) will jump into life because that is
what
> exe files do
>
> I no time if you continue you will start loseing internet access because
you
> will stop programs accessing the ent
>
> save yourself the hassel and learn more about it'
> the help file
> zone labs web site
> Quicken is an accounting program (should it be accessing the internet
> do you even use it
> loader is rubbish but it is only being loaded because of other stuff
> starting up on the computer
>
>
>
> "gary" <> wrote in message
> news:budngl$giq$...
> > Hi
> > I have Zone Alarm installed & each time i access the internet or
> Outlook
> > express, Zone Alarm asks me if i want it to access.OK but what are all
> these
> > other programmes like QUICKEN. EXE & LOADER APPLICATION & many others
> that
> > enf in EXE. are these necessary & are they programmes i can erase. I go
> to
> > add/remove on control panel & they arent listed under the programmes!
> > Cheeers
> >
> >
>
>

On 18 Jan 2004, gary wrote

> Hi
> I have Zone Alarm installed & each time i access the internet
> or Outlook
> express, Zone Alarm asks me if i want it to access.

Obiouvsly Outlook Express needs to connect: you've asked it to.
Check the box on the Zone Alarm dialogue to "remember" your request,
and it won't ask you again.

> OK but what are all these other programmes like QUICKEN. EXE &
> LOADER APPLICATION & many others that enf in EXE. are these
> necessary & are they programmes i can erase. I go to add/remove
> on control panel & they arent listed under the programmes! Cheeers

They're various programs on your computer -- Quicken.exe, for example,
is a Microsoft accounting program which is often installed as part of
the software that comes with a new machine, and a "loader application"
may be related to some program you've asked to download and install.
(They might be linked/buried with other programs, which is why they're
not showing up in add/remove.)

The fact that they show up in Zone Alarm means that they're trying to
access the Internet from your computer. This is sometimes for
innocuous reasons -- checking for updates and such-like -- but can be
for evil/virus reasons. (It's hard to say why any particular program
wants to connect: many MS ones try it for no obvious reason. The
Intellimouse driver, for example, and the solitaire game "Spider" both
try to connect on my machine; I just say "no".)

When something first tries to connect, Zone Alarm asks you if you want
to let it or not, and lets you choose whether your answer is for "just
this once" or permanent. (If you've allowed/disallowed permanently and
want to change it, you can do this in the Zone Alarm control panel
under "Programs". You can also remove programs entirely, which means
that next time they try to connect to the Internet, Zone Alarm will
again pop up with the allow/disallow dialogue.)

I'd say the best policy is to permit access only for programs that
you've specifically asked to connect to the internet -- like a browser
or your e-mail program (both of which are pretty useless if you don't
let them connect). Anything else that asks to connect -- especially if
you don't know *why* it's asking -- should be refused, with the
"remember this" box checked.

As for your first question, unless you've got a reason for programas
like Quicken to connect to the Internet, ask Zone Alarm to block it
permanently and it'll just work in the background.

HTH

--
Cheers,
Harvey

For e-mail, change harvey to whhvs.

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 01:26:21 +1300, Win pecked at a keyboard in panic:

> Sorry man but you should not be useing a firewall
> You do not know enought to adminerter (sp) it
> an *.exe file is an excuatable file
> like run word.exe (Microsoft word) will jump into life because that is what
> exe files do
>
> I no time if you continue you will start loseing internet access because you
> will stop programs accessing the ent
>
> save yourself the hassel and learn more about it'
> the help file
> zone labs web site
> Quicken is an accounting program (should it be accessing the internet
> do you even use it
> loader is rubbish but it is only being loaded because of other stuff
> starting up on the computer

Repeat after me: Don't do drugs and post. Don't do drugs and post. Don't
do drugs and post. Don't do drugs and post. Don't do drugs and post. Don't
do drugs and post. Don't do drugs and post. Don't do drugs and post.

Then learn to spell.

--
B.Al.Zeebub
Registered Linux User #339345
Defenestrate Windows!

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:48:22 +0000, gary pecked at a keyboard in panic:

> What do you mean i shouldn't be using a firewall ? My mate set up my pc
> security as i know jack **** about it. He said Zone Alarm is important to
> prevent viruses & things accessing. I always get things i don't know asking
> on ZA if they have permission accessing the net. Can i delete Quicken &
> loader Exe from ZA.

Forget the idiot. ZA has a more information link for the programs it
blocks as the alerts pop up. Use it. You may want to download and install
AdAware as en extra precaution.

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

--
B.Al.Zeebub
Registered Linux User #339345
Defenestrate Windows!

You have been infected with CoolWebSearch.
Install and use the following:

CWShredder
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html
http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip


On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:34:32 -0000, in
<budngl$giq$>
gary scrawled:

>Hi
> I have Zone Alarm installed & each time i access the internet or Outlook
>express, Zone Alarm asks me if i want it to access.OK but what are all these
>other programmes like QUICKEN. EXE & LOADER APPLICATION & many others that
>enf in EXE. are these necessary & are they programmes i can erase. I go to
>add/remove on control panel & they arent listed under the programmes!
>Cheeers
>

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http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html

Bingo

"°Mike°" <> wrote in message
news:...
> You have been infected with CoolWebSearch.
> Install and use the following:
>
> CWShredder
> http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html
> http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip
>
>
> On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:34:32 -0000, in
> <budngl$giq$>
> gary scrawled:
>
> >Hi
> > I have Zone Alarm installed & each time i access the internet or
Outlook
> >express, Zone Alarm asks me if i want it to access.OK but what are all
these
> >other programmes like QUICKEN. EXE & LOADER APPLICATION & many others
that
> >enf in EXE. are these necessary & are they programmes i can erase. I go
to
> >add/remove on control panel & they arent listed under the programmes!
> >Cheeers
> >
>
> --
> Basic computer maintenance
> http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html

How much did you win?


On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 18:52:46 -0000, in
<2CAOb.14322$>
Stickems scrawled:

>Bingo

<snip>

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°Mike° wrote:

> How much did you win?
>
>
> On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 18:52:46 -0000, in
> <2CAOb.14322$>
> Stickems scrawled:
>
>>Bingo
>
> <snip>
>
Two pounds of sausage. Yum.
--
Gary G. Taylor * Rialto, CA
gary at donavan dot org / http:// geetee dot donavan dot org
"The two most abundant things in the universe
are hydrogen and stupidity." --Harlan Ellison