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Menno Hershberger
Flightless Bird
I've got XP Pro SP3 and am using Microsoft Security Essentials. The Windows
firewall is turned on. A couple of times when I've booted up lately the
security center's red X shows up with a bubble saying the NCP Dynamic
Firewall is turned off. Eventually it goes away. I don't see any reference
to it in the registry or in Add/Remove Programs. Also nothing unfamiliar
running in task manager. I Googled and there is indeed such a firewall that
has recently been developed. I just hope I'm not the victim of some drive
by installation. Come to think of it, just yesterday I had 11 windows
updates, and after I rebooted it, my home page had been hijacked to Ask.com
and the ask.com toolbar had been added to both IE and Firefox. I have never
had ask.com installed or even used it. Malwarebytes and Superantispyware
both give me a clean bill of health as well as MSE.
Just wondering if anyone else might have run into anything strange with
this last batch of updates.
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firewall is turned on. A couple of times when I've booted up lately the
security center's red X shows up with a bubble saying the NCP Dynamic
Firewall is turned off. Eventually it goes away. I don't see any reference
to it in the registry or in Add/Remove Programs. Also nothing unfamiliar
running in task manager. I Googled and there is indeed such a firewall that
has recently been developed. I just hope I'm not the victim of some drive
by installation. Come to think of it, just yesterday I had 11 windows
updates, and after I rebooted it, my home page had been hijacked to Ask.com
and the ask.com toolbar had been added to both IE and Firefox. I have never
had ask.com installed or even used it. Malwarebytes and Superantispyware
both give me a clean bill of health as well as MSE.
Just wondering if anyone else might have run into anything strange with
this last batch of updates.
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--- Long live Fat32! ---