Could it be the firewall?

[Spectre]

mgri once bubbled...
Common apps connecting back home I'm not to worried about. I'm just not that paranoid.

I just am completely against any sort of information they could be gathering. Oh.. so I can get more intriguing spam mail? They don't need to know what I'm looking at.

It's not anything I'm worried about; I just don't think it's any of their business.

 

[ReefGuy]

One good thing to do is download something like AD-Aware and run it regularly (I schedule mine to run nightly). This will find applications, cookies, registry settings that are reporting information on your computer (like Gator, doubleclick, etc.).

 

[jiveturkey]

Hey Spectre, I'm running Zonealarm right now. Do you think I should switch over to Kerio instead? Do you think it will make much of a difference? I'm just looking for something temporary.

For the time being, I'm not going to buy the NAT; mostly because I'll be moving back to Canada in 6 months and I plan on dumping everything but the hard drive. But its definitely someting I'll look into with my next system. Thanks guys.

 

[Spectre]

jiveturkey once bubbled...
Hey Spectre, I'm running Zonealarm right now. Do you think I should switch over to Kerio instead? Do you think it will make much of a difference? I'm just looking for something temporary.

It doesn't hurt to give it a try... www.kerio.com

I've never tried zonealarm, although I've heard of it.

reefguy, thanks for the tip on ad-aware... very cool.