[karajorma]

Basically it stops trojans from connecting to the internet unless you say yes. That means that if a program suddenly starts asking for access when nothing should be you know it's time to run spybot and your virus checker.

[jdjtcagle]

Thanks, I still don't know if it fixed my original pproblem but It just told me that it blocked 38 people trying to get access to my computer!!!:eek:

[Liberator]

That's happens all the time.  You only need to worry if you get a massive number of external access requests.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by jdjtcagle
Thanks, I still don't know if it fixed my original pproblem but It just told me that it blocked 38 people trying to get access to my computer!!!:eek:

and of all of those alerts, chances are 99.99999999% are just cookies and other harmless stuff

[jdjtcagle]

ya, it says right now out of 291 only one was major