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JohnDemolition

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  1. Well allot of the changes that take place in it can only be activated by:

    1. Pressing Allow All (which disables the firewall)

    2. Then re-enabling it.

    Aside from the problems I had with it disabling it and re-enabling it didn't sound like a good ideal to me.

     

    Also I was wondering if it was really "free" as I seem to remember it as a commercial application somewhere, yet the website stated it as free. Who knows.

    i've already tried that(it mentions doing that sometimes) but no luck. that seems to be the only issue that i have right now :)

  2. i haven't seen this in Foxit(currrently using 2.0 beta) so i can't say there is. do you know the program that they used to autoscroll it? also if you want an autoscrolling feature, you might wanna go to Foxit's forums to request that ;)

  3. go to Administration > Security > Second Tab > check "Block Active Code" or whatever it was called. go to Groups and select "Allow Active Code". now put in some website that you know has a flash file on it. go back to Security's second tab and then next to the checkbox, select "Allow Active Code". Go to that website and try to see if the .swf files will be blocked. i've tried this and it doesn't work. it ALWAYS blocks flash no matter what you do. well, except if you uncheck the Block Active code ;)

  4. allrighty then. time to get rid of this firewall. recently, i've had a lot of problems with it that just pissed me off. the first was its ability to block slashdot's images making the entire website load slooooowly. the images never even showed up. i tried everything i could to resolve it but nothing worked. the second issue was its option to block "Active Content". that thing blocks .swf files and maybe others. when i used it, flash files didn't work. i even placed the website in the "allow active code" group and it still blocked it. i've also had various other irritations so due to this, i'm getting rid of it.

     

    edit:btw, this firewall doesn't seem to be free. i just looked a bit at NetVeda's forums to resolve some of the issues that i had and i saw that people has an error saying "License has Expired". i also noticed that their forums isn't a good place for support since nobody ever answers :P

  5. Without adware/spyware?

    I used it years ago for at least two years, and it was plagued with adware at that time!

    version 1.71 and below were all spyware. however version 1.72 has 0 of it. the company decided to make it freeware due to dissapointing sales or something similar :)

  6. Hello. I have Internet Explorer on Windows XP SP2 and it is slow and the screen is white. Also, the thing is that Napster and Yahoo Messenger Plugins do not work properly. Worst of all I use IE for certain things and it is really slow. Opera and Firefox work fine but IE doesn't work. Do you have any idea what may be causing this?

     

    i had a similar problem. what i did was, i clicked the Search button in the toolbar and then IE always crashed when starting. i fixed it by installing the IE7 Beta 3 and uninstalling it.

  7. No, you don't want to disable that service because reporting those issues will allow for Microsoft to let the developers know of their software issues and fix them. Plus, when you send the report it can often tell you if a fix is available.

     

    You should definitely read the posts here, here and definitely here.

     

    most of the time their software doesn't crash because i don't use their software. if i were to send a report about lets say Media Player Classic(i'm using a build from CVS :P), then it would go somewhere and Microsoft would most likely not care because they didn't make it. Besides, if anyone wants to report an error, there are forums. I'm also willing to bet that a large number of those error reports aren't even read by Microsoft CodeMonkeys :)

     

    now back to the original topic: does anyone know how to use it to block ads? i put the HOSTS file which andvari mentioned in Deny Sites but i don't know how to activate the blocking thing.

  8. it might not be the firewall which is the culprit but it could also be some other application which injects a dll in it so that it works. but then again, i could be wrong. i've been using it ever since yesterday and i haven't had any problems.

     

    @Andvari: wow you actually get asked to report it to Microsoft? turn of the service. it's one of the most useless ones found in Windows XP.

  9. note to everyone: when you use the firewall, the icon will have a shield with a teal background. this is because it is not configures. you will need to select which adapter that you use to use some parts of the firewall. once you do that, no more teal background on the tray icon :D

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