hot damn

[jebbypal]

Finally!! All the hardware is working. I was very upset this morning when I couldn't connect to my wireless for whatever reason --- kept getting "can't connect" even though everything appeared to be working. Paniced call to Dell before my 3 days expired and a lot of stuff I'd already done, guy finally had be uninstall that driver and restart and voila! It works.

Heeee!!!

*hugs computer*

now then folks, anyone know of a good software firewall that plays well with a modem firewall? I'm not positive that that was the problem, but I trust luridmuse when she tells me that zonealarm doesn't play nicely and is a resource hog. Which would explain why it was so difficult to complete an asquared trojan scan there at the end.

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[cretkid.livejournal.com]

ZoneAlarm, while nice (even as a memory hog) SUCKS when it comes to working with a modem firewall. They do not like to play nicely together. Since I don't have a modem firewall, I use ZoneAlarm because it works very well.

Uhm, LavaSoft (the makers of AdAware SE) also have a firewall you may want to look into. Not sure if it plays nicely with pre-installed modem firewalls, but there are online reviews about it.

[jebbypal]

If my modem has a firewall, do I need to worry that much about a software one? I did download Avast on lurid's recommendation and it has virus protection running pretty much constantly on all html traffic.