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Thanks Who & David !
Yah I’ve known about the multi firewalls warning for years, and for years I’ve been online direct cable modem with multiple ip’s 24/7 with multi firewalls, the same multi firewalls, and never had a virus/trojan/worm/anything until ten days ago - that’s a pretty good run I had goin on there and believe it or not with multiple-firewalls.
So I’ve always been more than skeptical about the warning that ‘conflicting firewalls cause firewall failure’ , because my experience has been quite the opposite over several operating systems and many many many months of direct full-time use (and I’m sure you can see why I’d be skeptical with four pc’s running 24/7 for 4 years straight (all running email clients all that time and variously different hardware but identical multi-firewall security versions - and not one virus until ten days ago- I mean, it’s pretty hard to insist firewalls always fail when someone’s own experience with different hardware but identical multi-firewall software is such as mine has been ya gotta admit-for how can I just be that coincidentally lucky I figure, right?) - it’s of course possible that firewall technology has perhaps evolved toward that end to-date though I’d have to admit that possibility. And even with my experiences though, I’d be a fool if I totally discounted the warning. I think with that kind of long-term lab experience though on a first hand basis, you understand why I question it as an overall-rule. Hard to find others with that kind of experience too, so running multi-firewalls thus far has certainly not hurt my security seemingly (even if that itself is a fluke).
And yah, bitdefender found them all in my Netmail (never use Outlook) profile (latest Netscape ver). Ref: Windows Update: I’m pathological about doing windows update - every day, because I run so many email clients on so many machines, I have this rigid routine, reboot - check for security program software updates >> check for definition updates >> check for Windows Update. I’ve always been that careful as a rule because I figure an ounce of pre-vention every single morning at startup of the morning saves lots of woe down the road - and in fact it’s worked for four years now because this is the first one I’ve ever got any form of virus/trojan/worm/whatever thankfully.
Wow too, David I have to thank you on that answer up there, it’s exactly the detail I was looking for about the condition - a name to the face that ‘played with me’ for ten days ! I’m serious, I was freakin out when searching for the name and finding only some obscure reference and a vague blurb only and nothing else anywhere ! It was as if this terrible scourge was a ghost ! OK - so now, even if it comes back, the loser lol, I’ll at least know it’s real identity and won’t be so taken aback. Man I really do not enjoy an unknown foe, I’ll sleep much better now (picture Zena now, poised thusly lol) ~ Thanks so much !
All you guys rock! I can only hope to have some useful info down the road myself so that I can pass along the karma in-gratitude.
Very much obliged to all of you,
LWS