So early this morning, being at home watching Katherine for the day, I started checking out some problems we’d been having with Margie’s PC. It’s been showing a lot of Internet activity, and ZoneAlarm has been acting very flaky.<\/p>\n
Well, long story short, I decided that we were getting some significant intrusions, quite probably the infamous UPnP attacks via TCP 5000 and UDP 1900 (and, boy, doesn’t that <\/i>sound impressive?).<\/p>\n
I screwed around with ZoneAlert for an hour or two, trying to plug the holes, then gave up and upgraded us to ZoneAlert Plus, which has, from what I can see, significantly better controls.<\/p>\n
I then spent a large number of further hours, trying to get our home network working again, so that I could access the Internet from my machine. After getting quite tired of walking from one machine to another, I finally moved my notebook over next to Margie’s PC.<\/p>\n
Ring-ring.<\/i> It’s Margie, calling to say she’ll be on her way home soon. Huzzah. “How’s it going?” she asks.<\/p>\n
I make various disgruntled noises.<\/p>\n
She expresses her sympathy, wishes she could make things better, then runs off to another meeting.<\/p>\n
And, hey presto, just like that, our PCs are talking.<\/i><\/p>\n
The lesson here? If you have a technical problem, don’t call me. Call Margie. I’ve only got the job title. She has the magic<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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