[Blindtlk] Windows Firewall

[Ray Foret Jr.]

Jen, quite frankly, if your internet accounts have been compromised to the 
extent you say, (because you went without a firewall) I'd do the following 
things at once.

1.  Immediately cancel every internet account you have; including e-mail.

2.  Hard format your drive and reinstall your OS.

3.  Turn on your firewall and for goodness sake, get some good anti spyware 
and anti virus protection.

4.  Reestablish new internet accounts now that you're secure.

    Honestly, if things have gotten to the point you say, that's what I'd 
do.  Another thing.  Install and learn how to set up hot keys for the 
utility called Quick Mix.  It's a way to instantly recall your audio 
settings if you should lose them.

Best of luck with all that.

Sincerely yours,
The Constantly Barefooted,
Ray
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God bless President George W. Bush!
God bless our troops!
and God bless America
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jaber37837 at cox.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Windows Firewall


Unfortunately, I did go all this time without a firewall. I don't really
know why, but while I was installing Jaws professional, a box came up saying
that it would not work if the firewall was on and recommended turning it
off. I was taking an awfully big risk because apparently someone hacked into
my computer, stole my passwords for my Ebay and Paypal accounts and bought
and sold things under my name. I had a negative $460 balance and now I owe
at least ten people a lot of money and I didn't sell them anything. Anyway,
this is why I decided to find out if the firewall would work and it does, so
Windows lied to me, lol.

Jen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Foret Jr." <rforetjr at bellsouth.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Windows Firewall


> So far, I have had not a single problem using JAWS with the Windows
> firewall.  I don't know how you got the dialog saying that JAWS would not
> work if the Windows firewall was on.  Please tell me that you didn't go
> unprotected without any firewall all this time because of that.  IF so,
> you
> were taking a very big and extremely dangerous risk!!!!!  IF Windows
> firewall blocks a program's access to the internet, you get a dialog which
> allows you to keep blocking or else to permit the program to have internet
> access.  Once you allow, you can always change this in the firewall
> settings
> off the control panel.  HTH.
>
> Sincerely yours,
> The Constantly Barefooted,
> Ray
> Home phone and fax:
> (985)853-0139
> E-mail:
> rforetjr at bellsouth.net
> Skype Name:
> barefootedray
> Blog:
> www.raysworld.blogs.com
> Podcast .rss Feed:
> http://feeds.feedburner.com/worldofray
>
> God bless President George W. Bush!
> God bless our troops!
> and God bless America
>
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