>Steve;
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>What a pain! I hate to buy a box and not be able to use it for the intended purpose. I was saving up for a hardware firewall but I may have to go back to ZoneAlarm, which worked fine as far as I know. What you do not know will not hurt you. Well, maybe.
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The router was "free", a promotion that came with the laptop. But of course that does not make me feel much better about the situation. I had to set it up as an access point, and basically they are using two IP addresses now (one for the preexisting desktop machine).

>By the way our credit union informed us that our Visa Card was canceled as it was involved in the recent Internet Security problem. It will be replaced within 7 – 10 working days. In the mean time we cannot do things like rent a car, etc. Nice! No, not so nice!
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bummer...