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From: penguin on 1 Feb 2006 16:23
I am running Outlook 2000 sp-3 on a Windows 2000 machine.

Suddenly one day it can't access email unless I disable my Norton
Internet security (2005) firewall, in which case it works fine.
Outlook is definitely on the list of permitted programs.

Any ideas what else to try? Thanks!

From: Volker Birk on 1 Feb 2006 17:17
penguin <penguin732901(a)aol.com> wrote:
> I am running Outlook 2000 sp-3 on a Windows 2000 machine.
> Suddenly one day it can't access email unless I disable my Norton
> Internet security (2005) firewall, in which case it works fine.

Then you have the solution already. Congratulations.

Yours,
VB.
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Chance sich einen Sch?dling einzufangen ist hoch. (Lukas Graf in d.c.s.m)
From: penguin on 1 Feb 2006 17:28
Gee thanks. Unfortunately, the solution isn't all that workable, as
one is supposed to have a firewall for protection, is one not?

Being that I was just fine until a few weeks ago (just about the time I
got a warning about the Sober virus, in fact), obviously something has
changed somehow. How do I locate and adjust that setting somewhere?

From: Wayne on 1 Feb 2006 18:56

"penguin" <penguin732901(a)aol.com> wrote in message
news:1138832934.871974.188870(a)g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Gee thanks. Unfortunately, the solution isn't all that workable, as
> one is supposed to have a firewall for protection, is one not?
>
> Being that I was just fine until a few weeks ago (just about the time I
> got a warning about the Sober virus, in fact), obviously something has
> changed somehow. How do I locate and adjust that setting somewhere?
>
Why use an outgoing personal firewall that stops your apps from working?
Try reading:
http://samspade.org/d/persfire.html
and
http://samspade.org/d/firewalls.html

Wayne McGlinn
Brisbane, Oz



From: Eirik Seim on 1 Feb 2006 19:18
On 1 Feb 2006 14:28:54 -0800, penguin wrote:
> Gee thanks. Unfortunately, the solution isn't all that workable, as
> one is supposed to have a firewall for protection, is one not?

[ potentially helpful hints hidden after this rant ]

Firewalls, and especially personal firewalls which in many systems
run with the same privileges as the user(s), are mostly hype.
They do have their place, but not every computer system needs one.
Worrying about bugs and trojans in the programs you use and trust
makes more sense than those "someone is trying to hack you!!"
messages seen on some systems. And the ones who actually gives
the information you need to evaluate if it's actually an attack at
all will typically scare even an average CS major (which actually
says more about the average CS major...).</rant>

> Being that I was just fine until a few weeks ago (just about the time I
> got a warning about the Sober virus, in fact), obviously something has
> changed somehow. How do I locate and adjust that setting somewhere?

If you can remove all settings that relate to Outlook and then have
NIS report exactly how Outlook attempts to connect with your server,
then maybe you see what (if anything) has changed. My best guess is
Outlook is configured to use a certain host name, and first time you
ran it, you were prompted to allow a connection to the _IP address_
matching the host name -- and now your ISP has moved the service to
a different IP address (while keeping the host name).

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