On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 02:30:52PM -0400, John Sessoms wrote: > From: Mark Roberts >> CheekyGeek wrote: >> >>> >To echo previous comments, there are minor upgrade (point releases) >>> >such as from 3.0 to 3.1 (etc.) and then there are major upgrades, such >>> >as from 2.x to 3. Generally, education versions are not >>> >major-upgradable (or if they are they are priced high enough that you >>> >would be better off just buying a fresh education copy of the new >>> >release. >>> > >>> >I also suspect that even if the serial number is in the box, the >>> >application is made to "phone home" to make sure that the serial >>> >number is an authorized one and not a serial crack. On Mac's the >>> >"phone home" can be optionally prevented with a program called "Li'l >>> >Snitch". Not sure if an equivalent program is out there for Windoze. >> >> ZoneAlarm is the Windows equivalent. Very, very good and it's >> freeware. You can also block egress with a hosts file. *Nothing* on my >> computer is allowed to phone home unless it's >> absolutely necessary for the program to function *and* I give explicit >> permission. > > I probably need to update my hosts file. > > Does anyone know if ZoneAlarm plays nice with AVG Free anti-virus software?
Can't help you there. When it came to be time to pay for a firewall product I went with the AVG Internet Security product. > ... seemed to work fine with Norton Antivirus, but when "Norton" became > "Semantec", they really screwed things up. > > Understand that was true with a lot of security software people were using. That's when it became time for me to switch to a different firewall product. In fact it's just about time I renewed my subscription ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
