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I’m being asked to pay double the current price

It may be more than that; it depends on how you do the computation. Not all that long ago, the paid version had ‘pay whatever you want’ pricing. I assume that that meant as little as a dollar a year, and that the management was depending on the quality of the articles to persuade people to voluntarily pay more.

Thanks.
C.

I used a throwaway. I just wanted to warn others.

Hi!

Just thought I’d mention the AV I use, since it doesn’t try to install anything except itself: Emsisoft Anti-Malware. I like it, but I have and have had unusual demands from AV software.

There’s no free version, but there is a trial period, and with the loyalty discount it’s not very expensive. It generally gets good grades in all categories on AV-Comparatives. It never nags.

There’s also something called Emsisoft Internet Security which I haven’t tried. The same AV with a firewall attached.

They also have a good free newsletter on security problems, which you can sign up for without any connection with their software, I guess, and they don’t spend too much time on it blowing their own horn.

On a related topic: It sounds crazy, but I have been spammed by Panda. I had to give them an email address to download trial software, which I uninstalled shortly afterwards. I kept getting advertising emails from them, and they ignored unsubscribe requests. I’m far from the only one, of course. Check your favorite search engine.

Good luck.
C.

Hi!

Just thought I’d mention the AV I use, since it doesn’t try to install anything except itself: Emsisoft Anti-Malware. I like it, but I have and have had unusual demands from AV software.

There’s no free version, but there is a trial period, and with the loyalty discount it’s not very expensive. It generally gets good grades in all categories on AV-Comparatives. It never nags.

There’s also something called Emsisoft Internet Security which I haven’t tried. The same AV with a firewall attached.

They also have a good free newsletter on security problems, which you can sign up for without any connection with their software, I guess, and they don’t spend too much time on it blowing their own horn.

On a related topic: It sounds crazy, but I have been spammed by Panda. I had to give them an email address to download trial software, which I uninstalled shortly afterwards. I kept getting advertising emails from them, and they ignored unsubscribe requests. I’m far from the only one, of course. Check your favorite search engine.

Good luck.
C.

I am still using Winzip 14.5 Pro. Winzip Pro makes scripting offsite backups by its built-in ftp very simple. All of the Winzip versions I know also make scripting specialized local backups very easy. But these features don’t seem to interest you.

I find the OLD Winzip “classical” GUI much more convenient than 7-Zip, but it is no longer available in the lateat versions of Winzip in any case. It has been replaced by a ribbon-based GUI, which I hate.

My 2 cents: it’s best not to get on upgrade merry-go-rounds. Whenever an update becomes available, I decide whether the changes offered are worth it to ME, and on that basis decide whether to update. I don’t update just to make the vendor richer. That’s why I’m still on WZ 14.5.

Good luck.
C.

Back to my questions:

What are they? Can I delete their contents, or maybe even the folders themselves?

Thanks.
C.

Yes.

From RodeRunner’s link:

Some examples of keyword application follow:
• If the keyword XXX is specified, the URL http://www.badstuff.com/xxx.html is blocked.
• If the keyword .com is specified, only websites with other domain suffixes (such as .edu or
.gov) can be viewed.
• Enter a period (.) as to block all Internet browsing access.

In other words, you’re saying that it sounds like a keyword is a string which will cause a URL to be blocked if it appears anywhere in the URL, and that it’s at least a reasonable guess that this works the same way in DGN2200v2 as it does in DGN2000?

Do I have it right?

Thanks again.
C.

Hmmm. I don’t think that I asked, though, about encryption or security on other levels of the PHP/IP stack, or other levels of the OSI model, or in other parts of Windows, or in other parts of my hardware, or about keeping my front door locked, or about not forgetting my netbook on the train.

Is MS SMB logon encrypted in SMB at all, or is all of the logon information sent in plaintext?
Is the data transfer itself encrypted, in SMB?

Just in case different versions of Windows have different versions of SMB with different types of encryption: I am running WinXP Pro SP2, WinXP Pro SP, and Win7 Pro.

Thanks.
D.

Doc Watson’s problem is almost certainly the same one, and Jim’s may be. To prevent further problems, you might want to do a manual update immediately to VPS 091203-1 or later.

They have posted instructions related to the problem at http://support.avast.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=377 .

Good luck.
D.

If I understand you correctly:

Explorer XP at http://www.explorerxp.com/ .

Free for non-commercial use.

It’s hardly a great comfort to those who’ve already damaged their systems, but they have announced on their message board that the problem has already been fixed. I haven’t checked myself to see if it’s true.

Good luck.
C.

That depends on many factors.

The most relevant is how much bandwidth you’re paying for. You’re getting roughly 1 MB/sec upload and 120KB/sec download. If you’re paying for 1 MB/sec download and 96 KB/sec upload, that’s wonderful, almost miraculous. If you’re paying for 5 M upload and 1.5 M download, that’s probably awful, but see below. See or ask what your ISP package says you’re paying for, and post it here if you want to.

It also depends where you are in relation to the speed test server, and what lies in between. If you’re in Paris and are using a speed test server in Fiji, and you otherwise never have any reason to access a site in Fiji, the results are probably totally irrelevant. Find a speed test server which is more relevant to you.

Every Internet route has its ups and downs for various reasons. For example, there may be hours and days when your local ISP experiences an enormous overload; cable connections are more prone to this problem for technical reasons, but it happens to everyone with every kind of connection. Do your test when both your ISP and the Internet as a whole are working under normal loads. Don’t try to test your cable speed ten minutes after your local team just won the World Cup, and don’t try to test any connection ten minutes after the New York Stock Exchange closes down 30%.

As with most types of tests, a single test will normally tell you very little. It would be more useful if you tested your speed using different servers at different times.

Good luck.
C.