gatorkram
Spelling and Grammer impared
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join:2002-07-22
Winterville, NC
clubs: | Hmm
Sure hope I'm not wrong here, but this sure looks like a first post.. To bad you have to pay 14.95 a year for the software after the first year. |
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wozster
Premium
join:2000-10-21
Lenexa, KS
| It's actually a great software suite, but you don't need to be a RR customer to get it free for the first year.
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Yeahwhatever
@comcast.n | Now that's good... ha ha ha... Just when you thought an ISP was doing something for their customers... that's good... nice post... |
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rit56
join:2000-12-01
New York, NY | good news
hey lets not forget all their personally tailored spyware... |
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Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
 ·Qwest.net
1 edit | MSN 9
This is interesting I wonder if Roadrunner is doing this
as a reaction to MSN 9 who bundles McAfee antivirus/firewall
in with their service. McAfee also has a security website.
MSN 9 also has the best pop-up blocker I have yet seen.
It seems that more and more spam blocking software is using input from the consumers as to what is spam. Like so many others on this forum have stated the only way to control spyware and spam is on your own system. Of course we will have politicians touting their passage of what they call land-mark legislation banning spam. This coming from a person who doesn't know the difference between a bit and a byte.
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CO_Chris
Premium
join:2001-08-28
Broomfield, CO
 ·Comcast
·Earthlink Cable Mo..
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| Well i am using Mozilla and got the free ZA but hey i will give the RR"s new SW a try..I also Love the new home page as well. Good Job TW
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raye
Premium
join:2000-08-14
Orange, CA
| I suspect other Cable ISPs to follow suit
The average user does not protect themselves, so I think a pro-active approach is a good idea. Hopefully, it will certainly reduce the amount of Blaster, Nimda and Code Red scans filling up my firewall logs from Roadrunner subscriber 
Hope Comcast, Cox, and others follow suit with something similar. |
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crowland
Premium
join:2001-06-28
Apex, NC
| We are already able to download the suite from RR here in Raleigh, NC. It downloaded and installed easily. You had to uninstall everything (security-wise)before you loaded it. It is Zone Alarm for the firewall. Thought the forum might like to know. |
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Yeahwhatever
@comcast.n
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Re: MSN 9
MSN 9 also has the best pop-up blocker I have yet seen.
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Popup Stopper from panicware (old version) v2.6
this is the version before you had to buy the pro for full features... 100% blocks! I control what comes thru via the CTRL and SHIFT keys... |
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Yeahwhatever
@comcast.n | reply to raye
Re: I suspect other Cable ISPs to follow suit
Comcast has already done that last year... Promo ended 11.01.2003, they offered McAfee firewall for a year free. |
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wozster
Premium
join:2000-10-21
Lenexa, KS | reply to crowland
Not just "Zone Alarm" but "Zone Alarm PRO" |
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Bubba
GIT-R-DONE
Premium,MVM
join:2002-08-19
Around, Us | Yep....just downloaded it also but unfortunatley it is the an older version of ZAPro 3.7.179.0 |
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jram
join:2003-08-06
Albany, NY | reply to Yeahwhatever
Re: MSN 9
MSN 9 also has the best pop-up blocker I have yet seen.
Not as good as Mozilla..I don't get any popups,not even the ones that slide through,Google tool bar works better than Popup stopper. |
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Yeahwhatever
@comcast.n
| anything works better then the current version of Popupstopper... v2.6 as posted above is a very old version you can't get anymore.. it has an aggressive mode to where it stops 100% of all popups including if you right-click on a link and select open in new window... but to allow those thru just hold down the CTRL or SHIFT keys and bam there you go... I just like being 100% incontrol of popups, and not letting the progy figure out what comes and what goes... that's just me... |
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cmcgilton
join:2001-03-14
Stow, OH
| I'm Not Impressed
I'm not impressed by their offering at all:
1. If it's only as a benefit for RR customers, it needs to be that way via an IP verification process whereby it can only be downloaded from a computer that has a RR IP address assigned to it.
2. Their offering is "time-limited", therefore it is a "marketing gimmick". |
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