From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Thanks, will look into it.

No way to get him to drop AOL as his ISP though, even though he's DSL.  He
hosts some content for AOL in the Black Gospel world, and uses them as an
"anchor", no matter where he lives/moves.  At the moment, Bell
South provisions his DSL, but uses AOL to do all the connecting.

The last issue is this one on Security Center and Firewall.  I've gotten
all detectable malware removed, and have done the "free" scans
with at least 10 different programs, they all now come up clean.

If I can't get this resolved, it's going to be move off all his iTunes
music, and files, and do a format/re-install.  It will be up to his Dad
though.  He's leaning that way.

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Glenn M.
"Gary Britt"  wrote in
message news:4638dcc6{at}w3.nls.net...
> I'd put Comodo on it.  Also install HostsMan on it, and configure it under
> options to use the MVPS Hosts File.  Have it automatically overwrite the
> current file upon updating.  Have it lock the Hosts file.  Have it run
> upon startup.  I've been running version 2.1 for a couple years.  No
> problems and no conflicts.  I've found that unlike some of the other hosts
> sites that are offered for updates to the hosts file, the MVPS one is the
> cleanest, smallest, and just goes after blocking the ad sites and
> virus/trojan sites. It has never blocked a site on me I really wanted to
> go to.  Works with both IE and Firefox.  Probably Opera too but don't know
> for sure.  If kept running it will keep other programs from modifying the
> hosts file.
>
> Hostmans 2.1 can be found at http://www.tucows.com/preview/407252
>
> You can configure the MVPS hosts file for updates from within the options
> tab of Hostsman but if you want more info on the MVPS site its at
> http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
>
> If at all possible convince them to junk all the AOL crap and dig all its
> browser extensions, plugins, and registry changes out of the thing and
> send them where they belong.  I've seen AOL's crap completely screw up
> various people's computers so that nothing works BUT AOL.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Gary
>
> Glenn Meadows wrote:
>> The Firewall/Security Center issue is giving me a Dependency error when
>> trying to start either service.  Have to look and see what my laptop has
>> for dependencies and try to sort this one out as well.  Also had no AV on
>> the computer, and when I first got it, the Hosts file was filled with all
>> the AV sites being redirected to Local Host.   Guess the AOL
"protection
>> suite" doesn't do very well.
>>

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