Re: Firewall software with Linksys??

From: ßill (whickok@rochester.rr.com)
Date: 01/10/02


From: ßill <whickok@rochester.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 01:16:30 GMT

On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 23:15:46 GMT, rck@houston.rr.com (Dr. Bob) spewed
forth these words to the group:

>On Tue, 08 Jan 2002 22:10:29 GMT, ßill <whickok@rochester.rr.com>
>wrote:
>
>>I didn't hold a gun to their heads, I just emailed the tech support
>>and asked politely for help and gave them specific info when asked.
>>Voila !! I got an answer.
>
>Did you ask them why your machine crashed 190 times?
It was only 5 times.

>What answer did they give?

Asked me what I was having load at startup. And told me after
simulating the load at startup that I had that system resources were
overloaded. I took a few unnecessary things out and haven't had a
problem since.

>>I found that they listened when I didn't swear at them or belittle
>>them.
>
>Who did? I was one of the first users of ZA and I recommended it to
>far more people than would ever listen to you for advice.

I didn't offer my advice to you in the first place.

>>Hence I'm not pissed off. And again I got my problem solved.
>
>What problem was it?
>
>1) Startup problem.

Startup. see further up in my reply.

>2) Crashing problem.
>
>3) Mysterious ".tmp" files problem.

 The .tmp files contain backup information on rulesets.

>3) Uninstall problem.

Doing a custom uninstall will remove almost all of the files installed
by ZA. Registry included

>If it wasn't one or more of those then you did not have the kind of
>problem that many of us here have experienced - and for which ZLabs
>never provided a solution.
>
>>Try it sometime...
>
>Look smartass, your machine did not crash 190 times from that piece of
>crap.

No it didn't. Just 5 times.

>Learn to hold your tongue until after you have walked in someone's
>mocassins.

I have been with pc's since The "trash 80" days. And ran windows from
1.0. Trust me, been there and done that.

>Dr. Bob
>
>"The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust
>no man with enough power to endanger the public liberty."
>- John Adams

ß

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