Hi Madaline,
I have used End It All2 and it is just fine. It gives a bit more control
over what it will kill or end. If you use the defaults, or know what you
want to end or kill then you are pretty safe.
I don't use Black Ice since Zone Alarm has been around, but I generaly don't
close it or anything for that matter when running Easy Cleaner. BTW, I just
installed Easy Cleaner on a fresh install of XP Pro, used his reg patch and
it works just as great as ever.
You should not run or install Zone Alarm and Black Ice at the same time. I
would suggest you uninstall Black Ice prior to installing ZA. I have not
noticed any conflicts with Norton and ZA Pro as far as Email scanning goes.
Norton 2002 and XP is another matter.
As far as backing up, I always back up anything I create, word files, spread
sheets, and Money files. It isn't necessary to back up programs if you have
the disks. You can do drive imaging, but that is another issue.
XP comes with IE6, which I had no trouble with on Win2K, but I would
recommend not installing "Error Reporting" should you decide to give it a
go. That seemed to create more errors.
HTH,
Brad Loomis
Los Angeles, CA
-----Original Message-----
Happy New Year one and all!! I find myself starting 2002 needing your
assistance in answering a number of questions I have on 'computing'. If you
can help me out, it will improve my 2002 immensely.
Does anyone have an opinion as to whether I should install EndItAll or the
newer version EndItAll2? Has anyone used EndItAll2?
When installing new software or running EasyCleaner or Regedit, must I close
my firewall (BlackICE Defender) first, thereby leaving my computer
temporarily unprotected?
I have read various sites and comparisons of firewalls, and ZoneAlarm is
consistently rated better than BlackICE. Does anyone know if I have to
delete (not just close) BlackICE Defender from my system before I can
download and install ZoneAlarm?
Since ZoneAlarm has email protection, would it conflict with my Norton
AntiVirus 2002 which checks my emails for viruses?
Is there any benefit to downloading Internet Explorer 6, or should I just
stay with version 5.5? Does anyone know of potential problems in version 6
that are not present in version 5.5?
Can someone, please, enlighten me on the basics of doing backups? Are there
specific file names on all computers that should always be backed up? How
does one determine whether a file should be backed up or not? I know
backups are of top priority and importance, but everything that I have read
about them assumes that the person doing the backup has a much better
understanding of the basics than I have. What backup program is best to
use? Other than backing up my Quicken data, I have no idea of where to
begin to do a backup.
Thank you for any assistance you can give.
Madaline Satkiewicz
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