Are you sure you didn't get zombieized between the time you installed broadband and the time you installed your firewall?  It only takes a few unprotected seconds.  Check your connection and see if there's a lot of suspicious up and down traffic.

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Open question to anyone in the group.

A few days ago I downloaded McAfee to set up a firewall. Once it

was

installed

the SETI@Home program slowed to a snails pace. I turned McAfee off

and the

program was still slow so I uninstalled the McAfee and now SETI is

running

fine. Has anyone else experienced this and if you have is there a

workaround?

Jeff Hetzel


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Jeff,

What Version on Mcafee are you using?  I've heard similiar

complaints about

Mcafee 7.0 clashing with SETI@Home 3.08.

I've Run Mcafee 6.0 with both Seti@Home versions 3.03 and 3.08 for a

couple

years now without any problems or clashes.

I suspect that Mcafee 7.0 and SETI are sharing the same port, and

causing

said clash. Perhaps setting up a cacheing program and thus forcing

SETI to

use a port of your choice will fix this issue.  But I'm just

reaching here.

Hopely someone else on this forum will have a little more expertise.

Good Luck

I have been running Seti 3.08 on a Windows 98 machine for years. Last
week I installed broadband and yesterday I installed McAfee Firewall
Plus 5.0.5.7 (broadband suppliers suggested I need a firewall and I am
already using McAfee VirusScan and Spamkiller)
The effect was to slow Seti to a crawl.
Does anybody know if this can be cured by switching to BOINC?