Zonealarm warning

jomali jomali3945 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 25 11:57:21 EST 2010


Very important - disconnect from the Internet before turning off antivirus
and firewalls and turn them back on before re-connecting.

jomali

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Dennis Powless <claven123 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I think it's fair to turn off anti virus programs and firewalls when
> installing a program.  But, turn the right back on.  This goes for
> known programs, not ones your not sure about.  I frequently see this
> as 'solutions' for failed installs of all kinds of programs.
>
> Dennis
>
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>
> wrote:
> > At Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:58:54 -0500 stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> >Previous versions of the GnuCash installer did not do this, so why this
> one?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> The "ZoneAlarm" folks fixed a bug?
> >>
> >> This might be hard for non computer science types to understand but an
> >> installer is installing something that the "checker" program cannot
> >> determine is harmless and so must be considered potentially malicious.
> >> In other words, it is IMPOSSIBLE to have a program that can IN GENERAL
> >> examine the code of a program and determine its run time behavior. The
> >> way you prove this impossibility is closely related to how Alan Turing
> >> proved the "halting problem" long ago (that no general purpose "checker"
> >> could determine whether programs would loop so if you have ever seen
> >> that proof you'd know how to construct this one). The rest of you, take
> >> our word for it.
> >
> > One way around this is for the virus checker (ZoneAlarm) having a
> > 'signature' of all know legitimate installer programs and knowing to
> > pass them.  In this case, maybe ZoneAlarm does not have the signature
> > for GnuCash 2.4.0...
> >
> >>
> >> Michael
> >>
> >>
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