Re: ZA Free and Generic Host Processor

Wilf <wilf.wilf@wilf21.com> wrote:
> A couple of times lately, ZA Free has popped up to tell me that Generic
> host Processor "wants to act as a server". I have disallowed this -
> should I have accepted? Why would svchost want to act as a server? I
> presume this means someone or something out there is trying to connect
> to my PC?

Why are you running a "Personal Firewall" program, which asks you such
cluttering questions, and not just using the Windows-Firewall?

This question is one of the best examples, that the concept is b0rken
to ask the user what to do. The question you're mentioning here,
_cannot_ be answered correctly, BTW.

Yours,
VB.

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