Hi Rick, I have DSL. Take care, Lisa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ricque" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 4:25 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] How can I check to see if my windows firewallisturned on?
> Hi Lisa, > Answer me this question, and I'll go from there. > How do you connect to the internet? > Dial-up > DSL > Cable > Richard Justice > www.blind-computing.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Lisa > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 3:48 PM > Subject: [Blind-Computing] How can I check to see if my windows firewall > isturned on? > > > Hello everyone, > as the subject line says, I would like to know how to check, and see if > my windows firewall is > turned on? I know this might sound like a dumb question, but if the > firewall is turned on, how does > viruses get through? I thought the windows firewall was supposed to > prevent unwanted things from > getting into your computer. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong > on that one. What got me > wondering about this was my friend told me that when he was on the > Internet he lost all of his > music. He says that someone wiped it off of his harddrive. I have an > external drive with all of my > music on it, and my friend says that I should unplug the external drive > when I'm on the Internet. > Could someone really get into my computer, and take everything off of my > external drive? Hopefully > someone out here will have an > answer for me. I do run my anti-virus, and anti-spyware on a regular > bases. I have windows XP > home, and I am running jaws 6. Any help with this would be greatly > appreciated! > Take care, > Lisa > Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message > to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.blind-computing.com/contact.php > If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.blind-computing.com/contact.php > If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.23/924 - Release Date: 7/28/2007 > 3:50 PM > Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.blind-computing.com/contact.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
