internet forensicks

Monty J. Harder lists at kc.rr.com
Sat May 22 22:15:49 CDT 2004


"darkweb4" <darkweb4 at gbronline.com> wrote:

> Mea Culpa.  I didn't comunicate properly.  Install zonealarm
> and determine what is "dialing home".  Get ride of the
> malware.  Uninstall zonealarm.  Zonealarm, at its strictist,
> will popup a message for _every_ program that tries to
> comunicate on the internet.  This makes it easy to see what
> is doing what.  There are other ways of doing this, but this
> is a userfriendly way to do this.

  Rather than uninstall ZoneAlarm, just tell it that thus-and-such is now
allowed to use the internet, and it won't pop anything else up.  The best
way to configure it is to ask only once for each app, with the caveat that
something that installs as an IE plug-in will never be detected at all.




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