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Numsgil:
Maybe it's a Visual Basic driver issue somehow. Or a regional setting messing something up? I've done Darwinbots on a fresh XP install about a month ago. The only issue I had was a missing .ocx file. Other than that, everything ran just fine.
Peter:
--- Quote ---There is a risk if some hacker out there sniffs this up and want to exploit it. I just hope Internet mode can only transfer bot data and not any data. But with good security programs it should be easy to discover if something bad is going on. My firewall tells me exactly what files are being used in internet mode.
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Exactly what security programs are you useing that can see everything. Looks kinda special to me, for example I was going to play some game with a friend of mine thought the internet(friend lives in other town), he first had to install the game, after a while I asked if it was done, yes, almost right now just downloading scenario files from your computer.
First reaction, wh.. what, what are you doing, ho..., how.
To explain, I've got some VPN-program running, the VPN tunnels to most simple firewalls(well I had standard XP), the scenario-file was a shared file, simply becouse on local network that was the simpelest way to get desame scenarios, from there it is really childs-play.
And you want to say yours can see all that, seems spectaculair, too becouse there can be given something to the program who is going further with the data. A newer firewall gave a little notice when trying to connect, but serious exactly where and how and what the program is doing seems awful lot of data.
Testlund:
--- Quote ---Eric's got a strong point. Darwinbots doesn't come with a warranty. There's no guarentee that it won't render your OS unbootable (there are lots of ways to break windows just by editing a few lines of code in notepad). Of course, there's a certain level of trust going on here...
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I have no reason to distrust the makers of DB. After 2 years in this community I feel secured you don't want to ruin everything by hacking peoples computers. It's about the possiblility for others to exploit it I think about.
--- Quote ---Exactly what security programs are you useing that can see everything...
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I'm using Comodo Firewall Pro. A freeware firewall you can get here: http://www.comodo.com/
They also have an antimalware aplication called BoClean, also for free.
When the firewall pops up about an application I can click to see what files it gets hooked into. Though this is a very good firewall it has some issues with popups for application when they use windows services, which can cause your internet access to get blocked if you block the application. I get around it by having those applications closed when I want to surf.
shvarz:
--- Quote ---Maybe it's a Visual Basic driver issue somehow. Or a regional setting messing something up?
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I don't think so. I just tried it again and I found a way to make not crash. Went through the whole "Give me million of these non-existing bots" routine, sim got started, internet icon had red and green computers. Then I manually loaded up one of my older sims. Clicking on internet icon, internet got turned off. Clicked on it again and now it's all fine and dandy. So, it's not VB or other stuff, it's something about the way the program loads the very first sim during startup.
Peter:
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--- Quote --- Exactly what security programs are you useing that can see everything...
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I'm using Comodo Firewall Pro. A freeware firewall you can get here: http://www.comodo.com/
They also have an antimalware aplication called BoClean, also for free.
When the firewall pops up about an application I can click to see what files it gets hooked into. Though this is a very good firewall it has some issues with popups for application when they use windows services, which can cause your internet access to get blocked if you block the application. I get around it by having those applications closed when I want to surf.
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Thanks for the link, the behaviour you descripe reminds me a little of kaparsky firewall, it wanted to block anything(click on this computer(and you get a do you want to block signal), I am not sure if I could blame it on it, but becouse of it IE didn't work properly anymore, shuting suddenly down. After that I looked for another browser and well I am not going back to IE. This one is better. Some bad things give in the end good things.
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