[SWLUG] Wretched microsoft

[Neil Jones]

You'll be interested to hear this one. Mickeysoft seem to have just scored a massive own goal.

I use a linux machine for almost everything. Next to my phone is an old second hand windows machine that I use for 
a few bespoke pieces of specialised software that won't run on linux. Essential stuff unfortunately. My main machine is in another room.

This morning I decided to ring a shop about a new second hand machine advertised on ebay. So naturally I used the windows machine because it is next to the phone to get at the listing. Nothing worked after half an hour checking network cables rebooting I gave up and used the linux machine wrote down the details and phoned went back to the other machine for more details. A real pain.

I eventually discovered that Zone Alarm the most popular free windows fire wall was responsible. Fiddling with it my internet connection came back.Tonight I hear that two family members running microsnot windose have had the same problem. 
It turnsout that good old brilliant mickey soft have sent out an automatic update that interferes with everyone's Zone Alarm firewalls.

Neil Jones
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