FireFox and Sygate Firewall

[roofy]

Hi there all,
First off I like to say thank you to guestolo, for helping me.
Second I have a couple questions with FireFox, and installing Sygate Firewall.

Well, my first question is I have installed Firefox which I love a whole lot better than IE. My Favorite feature that I like about is the tabbing feature. Anyways, one thing that I can't figure out is, why doesn't comcast homepage work with Firefox? When I go there, the status bar keeps swapping between saying "Waiting for www.comcast.net", and "loading page". However, waiting after 10 minutes nothing gets loaded, and there are no errors showing up". At first I thought it was because there was a problem with my flash plug-in, but I can access all other flash sites, as well as www.shockwave.com. I only have this problem with the website www.comcast./net, and it sucks because now I can't get my email because the way I access my email is by logging into comcast website. After I have been infected twice within 3 weeks, and the first infection made me have to reinstall everything, I learned my lesson not to use Microsoft Outlook to read my mail anymore.

My next Firefox question is, I wanted to know where do the cookies, temp files, and history files get placed when using FireFox?

... and my last question has to do with Sygate Firewall. If decided to install it, does the network, router, and Nortan's need to be disabled prior to installing Sygate firewall software? Could you explain this to me?

Thanks

[guestolo]

You shouldn't need to disable Norton's AV when installing Sygates
But if you want to be safe just disable Autoprotect temporarily and then install

Do you have problems accessing this link??
I don't seem to have a problem
http://www.comcast.net/comcast.html

But if I type in their IP address into the address bar I have a problem, it won't load

Why don't you set up Comcast email with Outlook Express?
Your decision, but it's a lot easier than going to the site in my opinion

Just out of curiousity
Have you applied the Windows updates yet, this may help the situation

you can also try going to START>>RUN>>Type in cmd
At the prompt type in
ipconfig /flushdns

See if this will delete the dns resolver cache
If the DNS client service is running

[roofy]

[quote name=\'guestolo\' date=\'May 14 2005, 01:16 PM\']You shouldn't need to disable Norton's AV when installing Sygates
But if you want to be safe just disable Autoprotect temporarily and then install[/quote]

Ok, thanks

[quote name=\'guestolo\' date=\'May 14 2005, 01:16 PM\']Do you have problems accessing this link??
I don't seem to have a problem
http://www.comcast.net/comcast.html

But if I type in their IP address into the address bar I have a problem, it won't load[/quote]

yup, either typing it, or clicking on the link, will not let me connect.

[quote name=\'guestolo\' date=\'May 14 2005, 01:16 PM\']Why don't you set up Comcast email with Outlook Express?
Your decision, but it's a lot easier than going to the site in my opinion[/quote]

Becuase, I don't trust microsoft anymore. Also another great feature of comcast is that your email does not open your mail without you manually openning it. I am very disgusted with Symentac and Microsoft, that I am eventually switching to Treendmicro for AV, and looking to get a used Apple G4 or G5. When Microsoft comes out with their new OS, which is suppose to be sometime in the fall of this year, I am not even going to think about making a decision to upgrade to the new OS. I don't even care how well they secure their new OS, becuase this is what they said XP is suppose to be, but look at how many Service Packs they have built so far, and IE is still not secure. Also if you rember my last virus, do you know what the sad part is about that virus I had? It was already verified in Feburary 2005 by Trendmicros who knew about this virus but yet Symentac has no reculation of this virus and they don't have the definitions for it. In addition when I called them they wanted to charge me a starting rate of 39.95 to remove the virus, and it was not guarenteed. I hope that one day a lot more people start relizing that Nortan AV SUCKS, and I hope that symentac rots in hell.
 

[quote name=\'guestolo\' date=\'May 14 2005, 01:16 PM\']Just out of curiousity
Have you applied the Windows updates yet, this may help the situation[/quote]

yes I have. I am now running SP2 with the latest updates though this didn't fix the problem either. What I truely think the problem is there is something that I have set in FireFox that is causing this problem. I got a lot of restrictions turned on because I am not that expeirence in how viruses truely work. So I told FireFox to pretty much block everything
except for javascript. Could you give some pointers?

[guestolo]

I'm not sure what restriction you may have turned on that would disallow you to see the site

But can you do the following for me
In Mozilla firefox go to TOOLS>>Options
Privacy Tab
Clear COOKIES
Then Expand(+)
"Cookies", put a check in "Allow Sites to Set Cookies"
OK It and then Close Mozilla and reopen it and then try this link again

http://www.comcast.net/comcast.html

[roofy]

Geustolo,
I don't know what I would do without you. Your the best.

[guestolo]

Sounds like you got to the site
Good work

Don't forget to right click an empty spot on the top toolbar in Firefox and click Customize
Add or Remove items from there if wanted to the Toolbar