NETDOG IS BACK ONLINE!
I use a product on my PC called Agnitum Outpost Security Suite Pro — a comprehensive security software which protects against an entire range of modern threats (internal & external). Although it is not a well known Internet security product, it is a best-of-breed personal firewall for protection against all forms of malware (though somewhat short on the “user friendly” scale). It’s beening humming along fine for months but recently made a unilateral decision to block me out of my own network (completely unknown to me of course). Well … after 2 and a half days of tinkering with Windows 2000 component services, replacing my NIC, at least 100 “restarts,” and losing what little remaining hair I had, I decided to check my firewall settings. Glory hallelujah … I have been to the mountain! It’s fixed now.
We are now at “Condition Green.” Tranquility has returned to the land. Life is good. There is peace in the valley!