Re: Abtrusion - Anyone use this?

From: *Vanguard* (no-email_at_post-reply-in-newsgroup.invalid)
Date: 03/26/04

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    Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 08:19:32 -0600

    "Kerodo" said in news:Xns94B82456BF5Fkerodokenny@68.6.19.6:
    > "*Vanguard*" <no-email@post-reply-in-newsgroup.invalid> wrote in
    > news:OvWdnenUOIZXfv7dRVn-jg@comcast.com:
    >
    >
    >> Did the install of Abtrusion include a help file, like .chm? If
    >> there is a shortcut in its start menu to open its help, the
    >> shortcut's properties will tell what file it opens? I'd like to
    >> read that before installing the product. There isn't much
    >> information on their web site. They'll discuss how to go into
    >> install mode but nothing about checking dependencies to see what
    >> other files a program might try to open or read from, like DLLs, or
    >> how it might take care of ActiveX controls or Java applications
    >> (since the only thing you see is the "java" process that runs the
    >> code and you wouldn't want to simply enable "java" to load for any
    >> code to run in it).
    >
    > Sorry, I've removed it here and don't recall if there was a help file.
    > Best thing I can suggest is to install it and try it out for a while.
    > I was disappointed because I couldn't run some useful utilities here
    > for no good reason. And there didn't seem to be any way to correct
    > that either. But it did uninstall cleanly, so there's probably no
    > harm in trying it...

    I've downloaded it and will test it after I get to where I save a disk image (so I can restore in case of any gotchas). I'll use InstallWatch to monitor its installation to make sure I can purge every change if I decide to get rid of it. But then I'm still undecided if I want another layer of protection at this point. Thanks for the input. 

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