>>>You sure it's windows update and not anti-virus update?
>>
>>Good point - I know the machine re-booted but I did not think about the
>>anti-virus after I found 'auto-update' on. I think this site has sophos
>>running on the other machines but I can't check until tonight.
>
>
> Kill sophos seems to have sorted it ;)
>
> It is supposed to be just anti-virus, but there are various references to
> allowed programs, and no means of changing them. But since IE is not even
> enabled on the machine and I can't get to the internet anyway .....
>
> Part of the problem MAY have been that the machine was originally running FB1,
> which was disabled to allow using FB2 but not removed in case I needed to
> backtrack. I suspect that the reboot over night may not have started properly
> either so I've removed FB1 and also 'FIBS' as well so that only FB2 is
> present. But that did not work on it's own so something from sophos as well.

I had something similar with Panda Antivirus in the past. It comes with
an integrated Firewall, which I didn't choose to install, because I have ZA.

The curious thing was, that I wasn't able to locally connect via TCP/IP
to Classic Server, but it worked for SuperServer. After removing Panda
Antivirus and replacing it with another Antivirus product, everything is
back to normal.



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