Windows Defender - which many of us run on XP already as
it's not new to Vista - and the firewall in SP2 are made to
protect people who don't - and often can't - understand anything
about all of that stuff. It's a good thing. It's also
disablable.
I think Jordi you're thinking of ZoneAlarm,
the poorly designed, over-paranoid firewall
software which freeze XSI when mental ray tries to
access its ports.
> From: Nicolas Langlois
>
> And I remember a firewall software not allowing XSI to run at all as
> well! Very practical and useful. I don't need no one telling
> me what to run and what not to run on my machine.
>
> When the only admin in the world will be located at microsoft
> HQ and we won't even be allowed to choose what we run on our machines for
> security, terrorism, copyrights or whatever reasons they try
> to blame it on, I won't want to be computing anymore! Get people
> informed, not caged.
>
> niko
>
> jordibares wrote:
> > I still remember a anti-virus messing up XSI licensing
> > tool thinking it was spyware. Am I wrong?
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