System Restore Keeping Only One Restore Point

Thanks Bojimbo! You're not butting in, you're offering advice, which is
welcome. I agree, I don't want Zone Alarm anymore. It's just way too
bloated, too intrusive and an absolute pig if it's going to cause these
gigantic restore points for no good reason. Zone Alarm also added at least
a minute to boot-up time. I have AVG and it's 'resident shield' can zap all
the resources of the CPU as well. So I'll take a look at Comodo.

All the best,
Danno



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On Wed, 28 May 2008 19:28:08 GMT, "Danno" wrote:

Yeah, that wouldn't hurt to completely uninstall it and see if any more
.RDB
files ever appear again. Besides, I find ZA to be a big bloated pain in
the
ass. I'll do that and let ya know the result.


"Daave" wrote in message
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"Danno" wrote in message
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In the past few days, ever since ZoneAlarm was turned off, System
Restore
seems to be working properly, except for one issue.

"Turning off" ZA may not be enough (there's a chance that part of it is
still running without your knowledge). I would uninstall it to detemine
once and for all if it's responsible.

I'm not sure you need ZA anyway. :-)



Just butting in here Danno , G , I haven`t used ZA in years ; the
one I prefer is Comodo v.2 ( can`t get used to v.3 ) and that is
completely free .

"Danno" wrote in message
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Thanks Bojimbo! You're not butting in, you're offering advice, which
is welcome. I agree, I don't want Zone Alarm anymore. It's just way
too bloated, too intrusive and an absolute pig if it's going to cause
these gigantic restore points for no good reason. Zone Alarm also
added at least a minute to boot-up time. I have AVG and it's
'resident shield' can zap all the resources of the CPU as well. So
I'll take a look at Comodo.

AVG is an antivirus app, and Comodo is a firewall: two totally different
things!

The resident shield is a *good* thing. Whenever you run a program, it
makes sure you're not running a virus. Since you already have a firewall
(Windows firewall), Comodo is optional. One advantage Comodo has it that
it blocks certain outgoing traffic in addition to incoming. The Windows
firewall only does the latter. Personally, I believe that as long as you
practice safe hex, which includes running antivirus/anti-spyware apps
and an incoming firewall, you have all you need to be secure. If, for
some reason, you are still feeling insecure and think it's possible that
a virus slipped through and turned your machine into a spambot, then a
firewall like Comodo would be useful.

On Thu, 29 May 2008 08:56:15 -0400, "Daave"
wrote:

"Danno" wrote in message
news:cpx%j.174085$rd2.41918@pd7urf3no...
Thanks Bojimbo! You're not butting in, you're offering advice, which
is welcome. I agree, I don't want Zone Alarm anymore. It's just way
too bloated, too intrusive and an absolute pig if it's going to cause
these gigantic restore points for no good reason. Zone Alarm also
added at least a minute to boot-up time. I have AVG and it's
'resident shield' can zap all the resources of the CPU as well. So
I'll take a look at Comodo.

AVG is an antivirus app, and Comodo is a firewall: two totally different
things!

The resident shield is a *good* thing. Whenever you run a program, it
makes sure you're not running a virus. Since you already have a firewall
(Windows firewall), Comodo is optional. One advantage Comodo has it that
it blocks certain outgoing traffic in addition to incoming. The Windows
firewall only does the latter. Personally, I believe that as long as you
practice safe hex, which includes running antivirus/anti-spyware apps
and an incoming firewall, you have all you need to be secure. If, for
some reason, you are still feeling insecure and think it's possible that
a virus slipped through and turned your machine into a spambot, then a
firewall like Comodo would be useful.

My bad :-) , I use free Avast .

Avast interferes with System Restore.

Item 3 in the latest version of 29 March 2008
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-4-hom...n-history.html

The Self Defense function does not work in safe mode. There is also a
programme setting whereby this function can be disabled.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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wrote:
On Thu, 29 May 2008 08:56:15 -0400, "Daave"
My bad :-) , I use free Avast .

On Thu, 29 May 2008 18:50:36 +0100, "Gerry" wrote:

Avast interferes with System Restore.

Item 3 in the latest version of 29 March 2008
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-4-hom...n-history.html

The Self Defense function does not work in safe mode. There is also a
programme setting whereby this function can be disabled.

I use the ERUNT system , disabled system restore .