[Ham-Computers] Help With Zone Alarm Needed

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Hi All, 	
	
As you will recall, some pond scum hacked into my Windows 95B system last
Wednesday. I did not have a firewall installed because when I tried to use Zone
Alarm several years ago I ran into memory conflicts which caused periodic system
lockups.  	
	
JFW (JAWS For Windows(JAWS=Job Access With Speech)) the software program I use
to read the computer screen into a hardware speech synthesizer to make the
'screen speak', supports Zone Alarm and Black Ice, now. Both supposedly work
without memory conflicts. Well, the old blind dude was here when TI invented
Text To Speech, AKA TTS, and even helped write part of it in 1981. I know that
no matter what these software companies tell us, memory conflicts still occur.
Nonetheless, I have to risk it after what happened to me last Wednesday. 	
	
If I had the money, I would simply buy a Windows XP Home Edition machine running
an Intell chip, (Intell is what everybody writes their software to support, so
less memory problems with the Intell chip.), and use my still sealed copy of JFW
4.02 for XP Home Edition. There is a software firewall in XP, as you know. But
since I am fighting colon cancer, which was advanced when accidentally found
last July, and having to pay the 20% deductable that Medicare does not pay and
Michigan's female Democrat Governor effectively killed off our state funded
Medicaid paying it to save money, I am struggling to make ends meet and pay for
the medical treatments. So I must make do with what I have, some way, some how. 

	
Now, if one of you is willing, I need somebody who knows Zone Alarm to talk me
through the configuration process. I will call you on the tx. Because the code
used to write Zone Alarm is a mix of bit map and javascript, maybe something
else too, everything reads up to the configuration part and then fails! Now the
three answers/choices are there, but no question! The screen is blank in the
eyes of the screen reader program.    	
	
I live alone, so there is nobody handy to read the screen to me. However, I
could get somebody to do that, but because of the importance of making a right
choice on my part on whether to enable or disable function X, it is imperative
that whomever reads the screen to me describes it correctly. This requires a
person who can not only read and describe things, but must also have some
computer savvy. Finding one who can do all three is very difficult! Hence, my
request to you for assistance.	
	
Thanks in advance for your help.    		
	
Duane Fischer, W8DBF     	
dfischer@usol.com