zippyjuan
10-03-2006, 05:04 PM
Does Windows Firewall have settings to prevent a program on your computer from accessing the internet? My Norton lapsed and I was going to try just Windows. I have a program that I purchased and required activation, which I did several years ago, but it was later declared possibly illegal and the company was told to shut it down. (DVD X-Copy).
The first time I tried to use it since the Norton expired, the program gave a pop-up about my possibly having a cracked version of the program that could harm my computer and gave a website. My version is not cracked so I ignored it and launched the program. It took the normal amount of time to read the DVD I was making a personal back-up of (I own the DVD so this is legal) but when it asked for the blank disc to burn, I got an immediate note "burn failled" before it did anything.
Previously when I used this program under Norton, it once asked if I wanted to allow intenet access for it and I chose no and the program worked fine. I think that this time it was able to connect to the internet and that the company did something to disable the software I purchased.
So back to my question- is there any way to block internet access for this (or any other) program)? Searching the internet seemed to say that Windows does not do that.
The first time I tried to use it since the Norton expired, the program gave a pop-up about my possibly having a cracked version of the program that could harm my computer and gave a website. My version is not cracked so I ignored it and launched the program. It took the normal amount of time to read the DVD I was making a personal back-up of (I own the DVD so this is legal) but when it asked for the blank disc to burn, I got an immediate note "burn failled" before it did anything.
Previously when I used this program under Norton, it once asked if I wanted to allow intenet access for it and I chose no and the program worked fine. I think that this time it was able to connect to the internet and that the company did something to disable the software I purchased.
So back to my question- is there any way to block internet access for this (or any other) program)? Searching the internet seemed to say that Windows does not do that.