I'm clean

[David Ilvedson]

Ron,

I downloaded the Zonealarm free software and it is doing its thing.  Just
now it asked if Microsoft Update could through.  It seems to be working
fine.  Maybe you should try it again?

David I.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf
> Of Ron Nossaman
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 8:22 PM
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: I'm clean
>
>
> >Why would you want someone or something to control what you send
> (outbound)?
> >Unless you think you might accidently send a virus, but that is what
> >antivirus programs are supposed to do, right?
> >
> >Dave Peake, RPT
>
> Because this Tsadbot thing I mentioned was entirely anonymous. I had no
> idea it had been installed on my system by PKZip, nor that it was
> trafficking the Internet. I noticed that there was a lot of modem
> activity,
> flashing lights and such, and that my hard drive was chugging away when I
> wasn't doing anything even remotely connected with telecommunication. It's
> not that I think someone wants to control what I send, it's what something
> on my system, installed without my knowledge or sanction, decides to send
> or receive without my control that's at issue here. These aren't imaginary
> Boojums of a febrile little paranoid mind. They're real, and this sort of
> user control should be a basic security necessity of any operating system.
> I don't have any way of knowing what's running on my system, or what it's
> doing at any given time, since the Windows task list is neither complete
> nor informative, and I don't know of any other software that will tell me
> these things. Tsadbot did not show up on the task list. Since Microsoft
> apparently didn't consider system security to be important, it would be
> nice to have a working firewall that informs me of unsolicited outbound
> traffic. Wish I could get Zonealarm to work, since it does just what I
> want. Meanwhile, there is a very good chance that some of you out there
> have this little covert undercover advertising agent chugging away in your
> computers even as you read this, and I was attempting to point that out to
> the folks who may not be aware of it, and might care if they were.
>
> Ron N
>