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Hi all,
i just installed ZoneAlarm and couldn't figure out why my Ribbon Screen Saver would want to access the internet. I denied access and a day or so later the screen saver quit working and locked up my computer.
I also denied access to Windows Media Player which wanted to gain internet access upon start up. So far no ill effects from that.
What's up?
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Bewitched, bothered and bewildered...
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Follow That Dream Sam Karaoke King -------------------- Turning that corner again - I have to keep following that dream, no matter what
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Those "phone home" applications drive me nuts. The new Windows media player wants to go on the internet and find the album art for your music. It's busy searching, and chewing up system resources. Same for most virus and anti-phishing software now. Used to be they used a data base download in off hours, and then used that, now they check with the mother ship. Who knows what other info they shouldn't be getting. I can stick a script on my homepage and mine your business. Sites you went to, and I can eat your cookies. If only I could..never mind.
I use them as little as possible. It bugs almost as much as all the machines being down in the morning due to "Uncle Bill Gates", sending a load this and reboot command.
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Hey, JC - mine your own business and take your little paws off my cookie jar! Now! 
Follow That Dream Sam Karaoke King -------------------- Turning that corner again - I have to keep following that dream, no matter what
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Who knows what other info they shouldn't be getting.
Ya, that's my concern, exactly.
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I came up programming through the 8 bit days and it absolutely boggles my mind how such hardware as we have today can be so slowed down to such a pathetic crawl.
Like the man said, "ain't that a kick in the head!"
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They say, by around 2085 the theoretical computational speed limit will be reached. Puters will then be 10^16 times faster than the fastest puters of today ...
Try a search for 224.0.0.22 - the web seems to be teeming with pertinent references. I am under the impression that the particular configuration, viz. use of Zonealarm or whatnot together with your router configs may be playing a roll in this nuisance. No clue as of now, though ...
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Also remember you are being tracked by Adobe through their "sol" files which is similar to a cookie and saved from a Web page with a Flash animation. If you are using linux, you can remove them by running "find -iname '*.sol' -exec rm "{}" \;" in a terminal window. For Windows, see Mr. Gannon's warning below and then visit http://tips.vlaurie.com/2007/10/how-you-are-secretly-tracked-with-flash-cookies/
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>>Also remember you are being tracked by Adobe through their "sol" files which is similar to a cookie and saved from a Web page
Interesting. Band-in-a-Box also saves .SOL files, although they are different, (Soloist files, for your list of soloists).
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I forgot about the soloist files. Thanks for the reminder. I think I should edit my post with that warning.
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They say, by around 2085 the theoretical computational speed limit will be reached. Puters will then be 10^16 times faster than the fastest puters of today ...
Try a search for 224.0.0.22 - the web seems to be teeming with pertinent references. I am under the impression that the particular configuration, viz. use of Zonealarm or whatnot together with your router configs may be playing a roll in this nuisance. No clue as of now, though ...
Wow! I'll only be 129 then - can't wait!
I've heard that every time you touch an Adobe file, a message is sent out.
I've found Adobe processes running and stopped them, and disabled them from starting up. That seemed to help. Might still be something else going on I don't know about.
Like the man said, "ain't that a kick in the head!"
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Well everyone figures the 'Apple' or "Mac" operating systems are bullet proof and benign, but one has to wonder with the constant updating of Adobe and the forced rebooting of your system if you run anything with Adobe Reader on it. I use Open Office and have no need for Adobe Reader, but so many people configure their software to make use of it, it seems like a requirement. Don't hold your breath for them to come clean and tell you what they know about you, your habits, your computer, or your browsing history. Or I'm paranoid. Or am I paranoid enough?
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There are way, way too many apps that have A Wonderful Plan For Your Life and don't bother telling you about it.
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Probably not paranoid enough, John. We have to remember that WinFirewall does not block "phoning home" in independent software. You need a firewall that does block phone homes - particularly Win stuff. As a society we always need the latest and greatest "free" software upgrade. "Free" comes with a price . . .like hidden "phone home" cookies. We don't spend enough time checking out those new, free downloaded software upgrades. I use Comodo to block "phone homes" - ZoneAlarm should do this too. If you don't like the latest of a particular go back to a site like FileHippo and download an older version where you felt comfortable. Good luck everyone fighting the "upgrade addiction". Are there really so many improvements that software needs that many upgrades? H-m-m-m-m-m? What's really going on here? Be on your up-guard.
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Being paranoid is not a good way to live but if it floats your boat, fine. I think people make way too much out of stuff like this. If it were so bad, where's all the news stories about millions of people being ripped off due to it? I have a friend who still refuses to use online banking "no way I'm putting my personal information on the internet" etc, etc. You are way more exposed by giving your credit card to the waiter at a restaurant than you are using a military level encrypted bank site. He takes it away from your sight then if he's so inclined, he makes a copy of it, takes the info home and creates a duplicate card using one of those machines you can buy for a few hundred bucks. Even if that happens, as long as you stay on top of your account, you're not responsible anyway and it's the same for online banking but it's fun to make all the paranoid comments about "they're going to get me, ooooooh!". The other thing is when some idiot at a huge company leaves his laptop laying around and it gets stolen and it happens to have millions of peoples credit info on it so scammers have a chance to use it for bad purposes. Even worse the same idiot puts that info on a thumb drive and then loses it. That's where the risks are, not something like Adobe doing an update.
Notice I'm not talking about email scams with nasty attachments. Those are a whole different thing. Never open an attachment you're not sure about.
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"where are the millions of people saying they have been ripped off?"
Think about that one. When a financial institution gets hit and loses money (it happens thousands of times) do you think they announce it? They would lose every customer! Often they hide it and cover the loss, or their insurance does. Most times the bank catches it before the customer does. Again, documentation can be found on this, but it is boring depressing reading.
As for adobe - Google 'adobe exploits' for pages of holes the updates sometimes cause.
On the front lines, seen a lot of things.. being paranoid keeps us on our toes!
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I'm not paranoid about putting my info on line for Amazon or Pgmusic to purchase stuff. I'm cautious about ebay.
But I don't like seeing some pop up saying it updated and wants to restart my computer. Adobe did this to 2 of my machines last week.
My wife had her debit card info skimmed at the largest grocery chain in Canada. Odd thing is I do 99 percent of the shopping. Then I had someone put $1000 on my Visa in Montreal. Had to get a new card. Turns out the cleaning staff at the grocery store installed the gear at the check out overnight. They NEVER admitted the fraud.
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Old joke but good one.
One guy to the other "someone stole my wife's credit card."
Other guy, "I hope you didn't get stuck with the bills!"
First guy, "well I did not report it yet, so far he's spending less money than my wife."
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I'm not paranoid myself, but I'm certain the paranoids are plotting against me!
Like the man said, "ain't that a kick in the head!"
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even paranoids have something to worry about. Here's my take on the identity prob. The bank is secure, the software to the bank is secure BUT you are not. If someone hacks your system while you are online at some other sight, any info you store on your system can, not will, be taken. Passwords, info on accts,whatever you choose to have on your system can be exploited.
Our county has started a trash recycling program that use prisoners from the county jail to sift through my trash so the world won't heat up and burn because of my excess carbon footprint(size10.5). Ah thinking outside the box,maybe somebody gets some info, I'm screwed.
Talk about white collar crime, just look at those interest rates on those CC's. Who owns the CC companies, the banks, who owns the banks, the government. I gotta stop, I'm having a Glenn Beck moment. Gotta take a chill pill, oh big pharm's another issue. Chill pill where are you.......
Ah a hundred years from now it won't mater to us anyway. Wyndham
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