Hello Aquarius and other interested parties:



It sounds like you may have fixed your own problem. Let's hope so.



I post this so you will have a clearer understanding of what a firewall
does.



There are nasty people that have nothing better to do than run a program
that randomly generates Internet addresses to ping your computer.  It is
like walking down the sidewalk and checking to see whose car is unlocked.



When the nasties find your computer port and there are a lot of them, open
they can gain access to your computer. They would be able to look around on
your hard drive. They could turn your computer into a zombie and have your
computer spew out spam.  They could place a key logger program on your
computer to monitor your keystrokes.



So if you should need to disable the firewall for some reason, just remember
to enable the firewall when you get done.



When the firewall is functional the ping just bounces off and says "nothing
there".



A really good firewall will notify you of the going and comings as you enjoy
your computer. The Ex P firewall is only a half of a firewall. It will block
everything getting in. If you should have something on the drive the
firewall will not let you know when it tries to access the Internet?



Safe computering to you

----- Original Message -----
From: "aquarius" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 10:42 AM
Subject: security center


:I am a recent user of xp home; I have window-eyes 5.5.  For several weeks
: now, I am having trouble downloading books from audible.com.  The download
: will begin; download a percentage, which varies, then stops.  The computer
: is not locked up; the connection to the internet is not interfered with.
I
: have asked audible about this and at first was told that they have been
: updating their servers and that the update would continue through 11/15.
: Today, however, I was told that it is possible a firewall is interfering.
:
: We do have a hub and as of this moment, I do not know the name of it; it
was
: provided through what is now sbc/yahoo.  It is my understanding if one has
a
: hub, then one has a firewall.
:
: I looked in security center in control panel.  I saw a firewall button and
: pressed it.  It said a firewall can provide protection against viruses and
: then how does a firewall help but could not find anything beyond that
: question.
:
: I question whether the firewall is the problem as I have successfully
: downloaded books.  To my knowledge, nothing has changed on my end.  Any
: suggestions?  Is there a way to temporarily disable a firewall?  Please be
: explicit.  I am not techy.
:
:
:
: Dory
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