From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Fri Feb 15 2002 - 18:37:48 EST
there is a free app or utility that will search a system for spyware and the
like..
i have the web site link someplace here and intend to use it to see what the
#$$^%$! is going in and out with out my consent.. :-)
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Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Bell" <RobDBell_at_netscape.net>
To: "ThinkPad Mailing List" <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: off topic
> I too would be very skeptical of what this program is doing. Obviously
> something must be causing it to start when your system starts or when
> some app starts. If you can't figure out what it belongs to by the
> directory it resides in or by accessing the file's properties, then just
> rename it or move it and see what (if anything) complains about not
> finding it. It doesn't appear to be a normal WinNT/Win2K thing, so you
> shouldn't crash your system by doing this.
>
> HTH,
> Rob
>
> grahamj_at_virtue.cx wrote:
>
> > UDP is the non-connected form of TCP/IP.
> >
> > In other words when something is sent via UDP there's no built-in way
for an
> > application to insure delivery. It's used for applications like chat
rooms
> > where such things aren't neccecary or aren't as important as raw
throughput.
> >
> > There's nothing inherently wrong with it but you might be careful.
Check
> > out where this file resides. It's not a standard part of Win2K that I
know
> > of.
> >
> > J.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Allan J. Ballard" <aballard_at_ix.netcom.com>
> > To: "Randal Whittle" <rwhittle_at_usa.net>; "Charles McDaniel"
> > <acmcdaniel_at_cableone.net>; "TP List" <tp750_at_cs.utk.edu>
> > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 3:52 PM
> > Subject: off topic
> >
> >
> >
> >>I installed Tiny Firewall, which is free, and of course has weak to no
> >>documentation, on NT4 sp6.
> >>
> >>Some program on my machine - EVTSS.EXE - wants to send and receive UDP
> >>datagrams to various TCP/IP addresses.
> >>
> >>What the heck is a UDP datagram? Sounds evil.
> >>
> >>Allan Ballard
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
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