Re: protection help
Jim
re > Doesn't ZoneAlarm come with a
help file or printable manual you can read to explain the basics ?
Yes, it's not always as helpful as it was in this case - see the quote below
that said essentially the same thing you wrote.
Actually, it's getting better, pop up notices are becoming fewer. AdAware
found nothing but a lot of cookies and I rescanned with the AVG update and
everything is clean. All that's left to get now is Search & Destroy, which
I hope to get to soon.
All of you have bee really great helping me with this. I feel well
protected now and back in business. I'm not quite as helpless on the
computer as I must have sounded, but sometimes I do have difficulty with
something that I feel has been badly written or designed. Thanks to all of
you who made suggestions and offered help.
Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message -----
From: "James R. Fisher" <garrideb@well.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] protection help
Kitty wrote:
I'm sure I'll get through it but...
Now it says "Zone Alarm Security Alert. The firewall has blocked
Internet access to your computer (FTP) from 85.17.40.189 (TCP Port 44096)
(TP Flags: S).
How am I supposed to make sense of that? And it's not an option. It's
just blocked. I wonder if it's something I might have wanted. This time
Help was decent -
"ZoneAlarm prevented a remote computer from connecting to port 21 on your
computer. This connection attempt was probably a port scan trying to find
unprotected FTP (File Transfer Protocol) servers."
<snip>
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
It means some outside host, 85.17.40.189, was trying to get into your
machine via FTP. I can tell from that address that the machine lives
in the netforce.nl domain, which is in the Netherlands, and likely up to
no good. Almost never will you want any machine to FTP TO your machine,
so all such can be blocked by default. Doesn't ZoneAlarm come with a help
file or printable manual you can read to explain the basics ?
-jrf
--
Jim Fisher
Vienna, Virginia USA
38.9 N 77.2 W
USDA Zone 7
Max. 100 F [38 C], Min. 10 F [-12 C]
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