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SoftPerfect Firewall is pretty simple (and free)

sometimes a "repair" installation from the install cd will get a ghost image working on another machine. Sometimes it won't. http://helpdesk.its.uiowa.edu/windows/inst...pairinstall.htm

What I BELIEVE is that you have a fascinating piece of code, but my forte is database application development, not security. Not at this level anyway. I am well versed in virus and spyware removal but I am not an admin. While the code appears to be doing exactly what you claim I really am not sure what the implications of deploying this would be at a practical level. As a programmer I would appreciate the complexity of this code and the things it is doing EVEN IF I KNEW FOR A FACT (which I don't) that it wasn’t a viable replacement for antivirus. This application was NOT written by some kid at jr. college. Just seeing it run in the demo is enough to know that it is serious code. Also presentation would be worth it just to see livemeeting (if you aren't already jaded to that). As far as MSFN representative, I nominate Martin Zugec (sorry for dragging you into this Martin, but you said you would watch it ). He is at least one of, maybe THE most knowledgeable about security on the forum (MS MVP). He is skeptical and believes he has seen code like this tried and failed before, like many here are saying. You can read his blog here or his posts on this forum to see he knows what he is talking about. If you can convince him I will be a TRUE BELIEVER.

see, the difference being that DonDamm has been around awhile, and has seen his share of snakeoil salesman and yourself, who has seen the "live" demo is DonDamm has the experience to back up his reserve. I think that's what it boils down to, those of us who've been around computers for way too long have seen alot of stuff come and go. Some products look nice and shiny, but just don't hold up to the wear and tear of time. You think Norton wouldn't be interested in engineering something that works like this ImmuneEngine is claiming? Of course they would. They'd be hailed as heros. However, my dad always said, beware of something that sounds too good to be true. That's exactly what this product sounds like. So please forgive our distrust of an individual that promotes a product that doesn't exist for the general market, and gives us only tidbits of information that sounds somewhat relevant. IF he would up the ante a bit, and trust a reliable member of this board with his software in a similar way that he's asking us to trust him, then he would be showing himself to be of substance. Right now, all he's offering is a bit of hot air. I've got a wife if I'm wanting to hear a bunch of hot air, thank you <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thank you for clearing that up for me. You must be clairvoyant to discern my level of experience with no information provided on my part. That must be how you know this code is BS without even availing yourself of the information that IS available. Guess I will take my MCP’s and 20+ years in various tech positions and slink away now. NOT! If you bother to read my posts, I clearly state that I would not consider this code a viable solution without testing it myself. I bought no snake-oil, I simply viewed a presentation on a piece of code that sounds and appears to be very interesting, presented at no cost to me by a very polite gentleman who never tried to sell me anything. Meanwhile you have spent countless hours of your precious time making posts deriding this guy without even working up the curiosity to find out what it is you are mocking. Think of how much more effective your posts would be when you could specifically debunk his claims point by point! By the way, he is also not demanding your time or asking you to trust him. He never tried to make me say this was the greatest thing I ever saw. Just inviting you to watch his demo. If you aren’t interested why are you wasting so much time here?

You have enough time on your hands to compose this weighty tome describing how valuable your time is, and yet none to view what he IS able to display. Interesting time management technique.

I was the only one who watched his presentation and I do not feel used in the slightest. He gave a very interesting presentation and even called me long distance to do it. While I do not claim to understand all of the implications of deploying this software in a live enviornment, the code was very impressive and appeared to function just as he claims it does. Whether or not it is truly viable solution can only be determined by actually trying it, but to overwork the car metaphor "just because Chevy won't let me drive their concept cars doesn't mean I don't like to look at them." As for using us (me), where else would one go to try out a presentation on new software? moms? Joes bar?. This is tech forum supposedly inhabited by geeks, and you obviously weren't forced into it because you weren't there. Same goes for you mr. mad redface.

No, of course not. But it still wouldn't hurt to watch the video. rythmnsmoke is clearly not a huckster, I could tell by speaking with him that he is a techie busting a gut to tell someone about his companies software. And he is not using MSFN as a distribution channel. He didn't tell me this but I found through some research that his company is affiliated with CDW and EDS for distribution, hardly fly-by-night operations. In his demo he stumbled a little on some new features (locking down folder properties... the code worked by the way and would not let properties be changed, even as windows admin) so this is clearly a work in progress not quite ready for general distribution, so it is not surprising that it is not available yet. And like I said before, there are those on this board that would know better than I if this is as revolutionary or feasable as he claims, I wish one of you had watched the demo to give a better account, but from what I saw it is very impressive piece of code worthy of at least a look.

Well, I don't know how you people can call yourselves open minded, or even techies at all. I bet some of your ancestors were there to laugh at the Wright Brothers. I just watched his demo (only person from MSFN) while he explained what he was doing over the phone and it was either a hoax on the scale of the alleged "faked" Moon Landing or one very impressive piece of software. Yes, it was actually running and caught all attempts to introduce executables, rename them, move them or execute them. I will not pretend that I understand the implications of this as well as some on this board so I really dont know if it is a viable solution in the real world. I can tell you however that it is a very sophisticated piece of code that appears to do exactly what he claims it does. It is far too advanced to be a scam in any event. If he offers to demo it again you should really take him up on it.

This ruling seems mainly aimed at grokster/streamcast marketing techniques, not P2P. The courts have basically set the standards for legal P2P... Don't use marketing to entice people to break the law, leave that up to their own imagination. That's how I read it anyway.

cool If I can make a suggestion... get the "Tidy" HTML validator plugin for firefox. When you view the source it shows you errors and warnings. Makes finding this kind of problem much easier.

It is being caused by the 2 <br> tags. <br> is not legal in "table" tag. Move them inside the <td> tag.

Delprat's way is better if you are only checking for one type of control, like the filelistbox. If you are processing all of the controls then the generic "Dim as object" is more versitile.

The 5GB partition (not portion, thats how much mashed potatoes you want) is most likely a hidden recovery partition, and the install is starting from there. Use fdisk or recovery console if you want to delete the partitions.

in top right corner of post see "Outline - Standard - Linear" click on standard.

For VB6 Dim c As Object For Each c In Me.Controls If TypeName(c) = "FileListBox" Then If c.ListCount > 0 Then MsgBox ("pending files") End If End If Nextt For VB.NET (no filelistbox in .net, so I assume you are using VB6?) Dim c As Object For Each c In Me.Controls If TypeOf (c) Is ListBox Then If c.items.count > 0 Then MsgBox("pending files") End If End If Next

OK, here is why guest is not working... only works with zip100 and 250 https://iomega-na-en.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/i...lva=16739&p_li= seems you are out of luck with zip750 guest under DOS, and same with spinrite under XP. Do you have a win98 computer you could try it on. Else try another recovery program like Brandon suggested.

see front page http://www.msfn.org/comments.php?shownews=13579

arrrggh m8e, shiver me timbers.you have to copy "guest.exe" on to the floppy, or burn it to a cdrom that you can then access from dos boot. The "bad command or file name" means that guest.exe is not on the disk or in the path, you have to put it there. this part of spinrite instructions are messing you up They are assuming you are using fat32 and can see your hard disk from dos boot, which you can not because you are using NTFS. You need to find guest.exe in program files\iomega or wherever it is and copy it to the boot floppy, or if it doesn't fit burn it to a cdrom and be sure to boot "with cdrom support" from floppy. I am assuming that there is command line program forspinrite since they have you in dos. You will need this program on your floppy or cdrom as well. Hope this is clear enough.

The zip "guest.exe" is the program that is used to access the zip drive without installing the drivers on your computer. Like the name implies, it is used when you are guest on computer and need to access your zip drive. You boot from floppy or cd and run guest.exe to get your zip recognized. Try it with a good zip disk and see if you can access it. If you can you should be able to put in your bad disk and run spinrite on it. like jclaz says, make images of the disk first so you have safety net if recovery attempts fail. He also is correct that TESTDISK will fix most problems, but it is difficult program for beginner. If this is still unclear and your data is very valuable to you I would suggest taking it to a professional for data recovery.

do you have a bartPE disk. If you can boot from that and access the net you can rule out hardware. maybe time to try "system restore" (if you didn't disable it)

download boot disk for 98se (and others) here http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

try winsockxpfix. It corrects some problems that netsh command alone does not.

Have you tried "repair" option from the network connections menu? If that doesn't work try WinsockXPFix

OK, easiest thing to do is put your zip "guest.exe' on a cd-rom (or the boot floppy if it fits). This you will be able to access form a dos boot (you could even make the cd bootable). Then run zip guest from there and it should find zip drive. What are you trying to do, recover deleted files or fix corrupted disk?

keep in mind also that this type of RAM must be installed in pairs of matching size and speed. They came in different speeds, mostly 60 & 70ns.