Hi Stephen. I agree with Matthew whole heartedly with regards to Zone Alarm.
Check out www.grc.com for some insight on this subject. Warning: Be prepared
for a lot of interesting reading on this subject.

As for his instructions regarding '95 software v. 98 OS: His instructions
are right on. Having said that, I do believe that there is another, maybe
less tedious way to accomplish the back up task. If You have a '95 CD,
search for "eru.exe" (Emergency Recovery Utility) on your '95 CD. Copy that
utility to your HD, anywhere will do, even on the desktop. Execute that
program. It will automate all of Matthew's commands and maybe more(?). I
don't know why Bill didn't include this with '98.

Mathew, I'd like to hear your opinion (and anyone else'). Is there anything
that your set of instructions include that the ERU doesn't? In my line of
work I look at between  200 and 400 computers a month, all of them a
"stranger" to me, that is that it is the first time and that I've seen that
computer. If it's a PC, running any variation of '95 or '98,  I run this
utility, sometimes for the same reasons Stephen is faced with. It has worked
flawlessly for me for the last 2-1/2 yrs.

Best regards,
Denis Beaulieu

 -----Original Message-----
From:   PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]  On Behalf Of Matthew Wulfman
Sent:   Monday, October 16, 2000 2:12 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: [PCBUILD] question

Hi Stephen,
    Answers are inserted below:

suttles stephen wrote:
> 1. what is the difference between nortons personal firewall and
nortons internet security?
www.symantec.com will give you a more authoritaive answer than I can.

>  2. Do you know where I can download a free upgrade or
> at minimal cost for a firewall.

www.zonelabs.com and it works.


>  3. Is there a way to use windows 95 software on a
> windows 98se pc without the risk of confusing or
> damaging the system?

There is always some risk but the following steps (BEFORE install
attempt) will let you recover seamlessly from most installation
catastrophes:
1) Start, run , command
at c:\windows>
2) enter attrib -s -h -r *.dat
3) enter md c:\sys.bk0
4) enter copy *.dat \sys.bk0
5) enter copy *.ini \sys.bk0
6) close your DOS window

TADA... now you have a backup of these files in c:\sys.bk0 if things go
to heck on you.  To recover, repeat the commands in order, except of
course you will copy the files in the opposite direction.  IF system
won't boot, normally these steps can still be performed in safe mode or
better yet booted straight into DOS mode.

Matthew

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