And I ain't going to not tell you!!!
Yes, I am in a good mood.
I finally got rid of IE from our systems (sort of, read on) and replaced it with Mozilla.
Along the way, I revamped our security, made unneeded several utilities and programs, and just plain had fun.
And, finally, just this morning, I got our network fully up and running, without compromising our secutrity, or having to re-route the entire thing.
Man I'm on a roll!
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Now for the details:
Internet Explorer has been a mainstay for me, mostly due to the fact that I work as a tech on home systems. As such I need to understand the users problems and fixes. HOWEVER there is a problem between IE and Zone Alarm (my firewall). It seems that some security sites can cause ZA and IE to argue. This results in IE going "POP" and may cause ZA to reset (or not, try reading up on this, its confusing).
The only FIX for this that IE has is to uninstall ZA and go with just the included firewall from WinXP. Since that firewall is swiss cheese, I passed on that and went looking for the answer elsewhere.
Internet searches became needed, since ZA tech has a glich in its search function. Here I found several links to ZA, but it was a link to a Mozilla fan site that got my attention. I backtracked, and tried a new search. And bingo, guess what? ZA ain't the only one that has a problem with IE and security.
Sooo... If IE won't fix the problem, and changing the firewall won't fix the problem...
Enter the search for a better browser. By this time I have now invested some three days of my time over a period of some two weeks plus. I was like a coffee junkie on decaf, at three am saturday morning. When a ray of light shown thru the clouds.
MOZILLA. The browser that I have used regularly in LINUX. Duh... Just have to remember to keep going back and checking for fixes and problems with IE. (Just about every hour on the hour
) Note: I can't wait for the end of August; Mozilla will have a spell checker! (I NEED one)
On the security front I have just finished re-configuring all of the security setting in windows, as well as tweaking the firewalls, AVG, Spybot... (Get SpyBot, and run the IMMUNIZE, espesially the recent update, it is great).
I unfortunately set the security so well that the network started shooting back.
Soo... I had a night of horror trying to fix this last night. Without removing the security settings, removing the firewall, or living without. My bald spot was gaining ground all night. Then came a kitten. Right up on my keyboard. The one that looks like he needs to grow into his fur. Like that user icon...
After I recovered from the brain storm (why storm? Why not brain festival?) I tried it. It WORKED!!!
I had SECURITY, FIREWALL, and NETWORK all at the same time!
I AM INVINCABLE!!! (/ducks)
The secret was in the users, and the user groups. I am still working on whether there is a better way to set this up, so I am not going into all the details here. Maybe later.
Thanx for your time.
(The typos here are all my fault, and I ain't going to fix 'em) The typo king
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