"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
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> From: "sid" <sid.see@willcox.net>
>
> | David,
> |
> | What I don't understand, is why you would advise anyone
> | to disable their firewall, as opposed to simply advising them
> | to give WGET.EXE permission to pass.
> |
> | Personally, I wouldn't drop my firewall for any reason...
> |
> | Perhaps you could edify my feeble mind in this regard.
> |
> | Sid
> |
>
> I guess you missed the statement, "...or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
> FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files."


I understood that part... but I still don't get your advice to "disable"... are
there firewalls that don't allow programs to pass, but instead, must be
disabled instead?

Sid

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> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
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