"Turner Morgan" <tfmorgan@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>I have O&O Defrag which has a defragger as a screensaver. I can run the
>defragger on my computer (Athlon 64 X2, Asus Crosshair main board, 4Gb RAM,
>WD Raptor X for OS and programs, WD Caviar for data, Windows Vista Ultimate
>64-bit) in the usual way as with any other program. The screensaver is in
>C:\Windows\System32 as ooscrsav.scr and it shows up in Windows Explorer and
>in the selection for screensavers in the desktop Properties dailog.
>
>However, when I set the O&O Defrag screensaver to run when the computer is
>idle, an error message shows up on the display ("Initializing connection. .
>. An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access
>permissions. (0)"). Moving the mouse to cancel the screen saver shows the
>OneCare firewall blocker dialog, I reply to allow the connection, the UAC
>pops up (I'm gettin' to hate that thing!), again I say this is OK, then the
>OneCare firewall blocker pops up for the second time to which I reply allow
>the connection again.
>
>If you allow something through the firewall, shouldn't OneCare remember that
>and not ask *every* time the program tries to run? It remembers other
>programs.
>
>Even more mysterious, I have tried to change the firewall settings to force
>the firewall to allow ooscrsav.scr. When you click on "Add" you are
>presented with a dialog box for you to select the program via a Windows
>Explorer-like interface. Well, I drill down to C:\Windows\System32 and
>*there is NO ooscrsav.scr file to be found*!!! Yet it shows up in
>Explorer!!!! What the hey is going on here? Does this mean OneCare
>recognizes only Microsoft products?
>
>There is a firewall listing for OO Defrag Container (x64). Don't know what
>that does although I do have the 64-bit version of the defragger.
>
>I have notified the vendor of the above, but have not heard from them yet
>(of course, I usually do these stupid things on Friday evening or on the
>weekend when no one is at work so I have to wait until the next working day
>before I get a response!).
>
>Maybe this is just something to add to the list of OneCare bugs. . .
>
>Regards,
>
> Turner
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Hi, Turner.
The first thing you noted, the double allow prompt, is a bug that the firewall
team was unable to resolve in time for the 2.0 release.
The fact that the .scr file can't be found could be due to the fact that the
OneCare allow dialog, when browsing, is looking for specific file types and the
..scr is not one of them but that's a guess on my part. Does the allow/block
dialog specifically list the .scr file and path?
If you have contact O&O, you might want to refer them to this URL -
http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-...ort/isvfaq.htm
-steve
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