Thomas Steinmaurer wrote:

>>>> 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.

Well I've had fun in the past with VNC and Radmin which are used to gain
remote control. A few of the 'anti-virus' packages decided that these were bad
and wiped them. So I don't have any confidence in any anti virus package after
having to go to each site and restore remote access! We use VNC internally on
sites to access the display controllers so wiping it caused a major headache
on those sites that refuse to allow machines on the network that do not have
their 'preferred' anti-virus package!

Since the server was running fine yesterday something tied up with 'automatic'
updates screwed this machine and I am convinced sophos was part of the equation :(

I'm STILL having problems with the Firebird on my site that is taking hours to
connect to the Linux server from the windows applications, but these other
distractions have prevented me getting back to play with that one :(

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