During intallation a very strange firewall request showed a WGAER_M.EXE wanting permisson and also showed a star (made from 5 V shapes) in the left corner that I never saw before with update for Vista...I blocked it each time because it didn't make sense-turns out it was part of the stinking update and now it failed to install it.

COMODO log

ho hum seems the norm for me and Vista

The burning was a waste of time. The moment the installer started, it commenced to download a fresh set, all 716mb to HD and ran. It took about 10 boots before it held.... some memory segment hop it baulked at... it even got memtest86 in the bootup screen, but all was perfect so why. Took another 30 minutes to get the WIFI 802.11N going, the latest BOINC 5.10.45 from the Synaptic update and a 'Could not connect' localhost problem, because it had not started the daemon.... but it's running. It even had Firefox 3 Beta 5 update.

(the screen resolution on the hi-def screen stinks bitterly.... that might be a major Ubuntu/Linux issue)

Still, I now have a fully functional Linux/Windows dual boot computer, no crunching buffer on the Linux side, so i can toy with it whenever and still contribute a bit with connect set to 0.01 and cache 0.00

The upside was, reading all those help requests and advises on the BOINC fora in past made a bit of the info stick and with latest Ubuntu a relative easy, almost smooth installation and application launch experience. Still hate command line and still think the viewing with file explorer suggesting a serious learning curve to discover where what is, just for BOINC to start with.

Hmmmm. Redmond is very irritating to say the least (biting tongue to not say anything more)

Thank you, Sekerob, for all this info. I have toyed with the idea of removing Comodo since it does interfere with each and every "new" WU and no matter that I've set everything WCG and BOINC to 'trusted' it doesn't make a difference.

ciao

Okay I'll see what I can do. I have an appointment at 1 so I'll do it after I get back.

:)

Well well, July updates required to agree to a consent statements, else MS would not install your updates and here I am being told the set consists of 6 parts for a total of 69.9mb. What to do, say yes, let it whir and boot and boot again and again and again and there pops up a screen to say that 1 update failed and will be reversed to boot again and again and again. Logged in to say update 952709 is ready to be installed, so one thinks: That must be the good guy, so said yes and installed and it booted and booted and booted to say on the 4th that something went wrong with 1 update.... guess you get the picture. So here i am to tell that if you get this and long long black screen before a reboot and more of those and a message, it might be this one that is called (euphemistically):

Scribe also reports KB951748 is breaking internet access for various Firewalls. The link says that ZA is effected and switching to Norton (where's my hammer and wooden stick, personal opinion), did allow for firewalled network access. Did not notice anything with the Sunbelt Kerio PF, so pointing fingers at the "who done it" is not all that clear.

Sorry

PS MS announced that they will send soon a Windows Update Update that should make your Patch Tuesday a faster experience.... depends on what lane you will be in