White_Moth

White_Moth

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Reply to msblast.exe ---> worm/virus? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

For the past few days, I suddenly began receiving a large number of port scan hits, so today I checked some out and discovered this: ZoneAlarm blocked traffic to port 135 on your machine from port 3441 on a remote computer. This communication attempt may have been a port scan, or simply one of the millions of unsolicited commercial or network control messages that are routinely sent out over the Internet. Such unsolicited messages are often called Internet background noise. Th

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Reply to Windows ME Startup Question in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I have been using Win ME for almost a year, and have been "online" with it since last December, much of which time I spent here at WC. Except for a couple of small problems easily fixed, I have to say that Win ME has treated me pretty well so far. However, I am saving up for XP in order to take advantage of the cool stuff from Stardock, but until then, I am happy with ME. Startup is pretty quick, but I do use "Z-AutoStart Manager" that allows me to choose what I want at startup.

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Reply to How can I improve my interenet performance? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I used sir Hus link to speedguide.net and they said my system was optimized for dial-up but that my MTU was set at 576. They suggested I reset it to 1500, and using the free Optimizer App they provided, I did so. I am happy to say that there was a noticable increase in Web Page loading speeds. But be sure to follow bordfryr123's suggestion and clear your cache files. <A HREF="https

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