ie/win explorer question
as i mentioned in a comment in this thread, i only just recently switched over to the much acclaimed FireFox and stopped using IE all together after my virus scan found some rogue trojan that appeared out of nowhere. it's been an easy transition and every day i find something new to like about FF. however, now when i reboot or try to use WinExplorer to browse files on Damien's pc (where most of our work files are kept), i get a notice from my firewall saying that IE/WE is trying to act as a server, and do i want to allow or deny this. is this normal or is something weird going on? i havent found anything with virus scan or spyware remover, but maybe i'm missing something? any ideas?
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Which firewall are you
Which firewall are you using, just out of interest? I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's normal for Explorer to act as a server. It's possible that when Firefox took over as the default browser, IE/Windows Explorer automatically lost its server rights in the eyes of your firewall, and now you need to manually add these back.
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firewalls
i turned off windows firewall long ago, but i still use zonealarm and whatever comes with mcafee. it's zonealarm tho that throws up the message. i am pretty behind the times now i know, are there better (free/cheap) options out there now?
i was thinking along the same lines actually, but wanted to make sure. i always deny server access to be safe (since i'm not sure what, if anything, the problem is) and everything still works fine if it's denied (can still browse/open/edit/delete files with no problem).
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I found this little
I found this little discussion on Explorer and Zonealarm - http://www.frontpagewebmaster.com/m-228541/tm.htm - the jist being that Explorer doesn't need to act as a server, but routinely asks for server access anyway, and that's just sloppy programming on MS's part rather than anything malicious. Seems it's safe to just deny it permanently (but probably pretty safe to allow it too).
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