On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 07:07:00AM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > On Jun 27, 2007, at 6:04 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > > > David J Brooks wrote: > > > >> Oh and it did not ask for "Home" or a S/N like in the readme file.It > >> did do the catalouge thinghy. > > > > Unless you have some kind of intrusion software like ZoneAlarm, you'll > > never know when anything on your computer is trying to make an > > outbound > > connection; they, of course, don't *want* you to know. > > I'm not sure why this is a concern. I don't care if an application > does a check for registration/license. My networking firewall is > designed to detect and notify me of intrusion attempts from the > outside, not from connections originating from inside it's boundaries.
So, if you ever get hit by a Trojan Horse, you'll never know about it. My firewall software (just like many other similar products) will tell me about unrecognised connections initiated from inside the firewall. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
