[vox-tech] grabit

[David Rosenstrauch]

harke wrote:
> Is anyone here familiar with a windows app
> called grabit? I is used to view and download
> from binary usenet groups.
> My wife has been using it and it totally hoses
> our DSL link for anything else. Worse, even when she stops
> it continues to run in the background. Also, it apparently
> advertises so we get incoming connect requests. These are
> blocked by the router but they still act like a denial
> of service attack.
> 
> Does anyone have a way to live with this? (Short of removing
> it entirely)
> 
> Richard Harke

I'd vote for removing it entirely.  Mozilla Thunderbird can do usenet.

HTH,

DR