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    Quote Originally Posted by malco1987 View Post
    Yeah thats what the boot scan was for it detected the virus in my restore folder also

    By the way i asked you in another thread but i will ask again what version of Zone Alarm are you using i am getting Zone Alarm Force Field is that any good
    o never saw that question...im using zone alarm pro, never heard of that one before. I've bin using this version since before it was bought out by checkpoint.
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    Well here is some info on it.

    Force Field Features

    Zone Alarm Force Field protects you and shields your computer from malicious Web activities in a variety of ways, including:

    Blocking unauthorized downloads or malicious software installations
    Provides antiphishing protection and alerts you to suspected phishing sites
    Identifies known spyware sites and protects your system from spyware
    Blocks keystroke logging attempts
    Initiates special secure browsing session when connecting via https (secure encrypted Web session)
    Capable of 'virtualizing' your Web session so that all cookies, history, bookmarks and other traces are erased once the virtual Web session is closed out
    Provides ability to employ Force Field privacy to protect your Web surfing even when using other computers
    For more visit this site

    What i really want to know is this sufficient or do i need another firewall to protect against a.exe on my house system (everyone in the household has an account on jamaicanforum.com)
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    check the logs ...see what it has been doing with the a.exe, mine automatically blocked it from transmiting. It was the AV that detected it and removed it. I would recomend PeerGuardian 2, is a nice small firewall that blocks adware sites and alot of others...only issue is some sites wont work because they use certain ads.
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    Yeah i was using Peer Guardian 2, but sometimes it did not even want to load tech jamaica so i had no choice but to disable it

    Well to tell you the truth the a.exe was gone as i said i did a restore and a boot scan and it left the building but i am trying to get it on my test system to try out the zone alarm but i can't get it back i have officialy clicked every ad and link on jamaicanforum.com and nothing yet there is some hope for hi5 though my friend told me it crashed his sytem (software) but i am not sure if its a.exe as yet

    Oh i also got the Zone Alarm Professional V. 7.0 haven't tested it yet though
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    more than likly the site admin cleaned it up, but it did set off my work place antivirus a few weeks ago. Thing with PeerGardian is you can set it to specifically block websites, and yeah because TechJA usues google ads it thinks its adware...i forget which server it blocks when it dectects good ads specifically.
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