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From: Jack on 10/29/2002
My zonealarm goes off and says rndal is trying to connect to the internet and when I search around places they say its hard to remove this thing and when I press cntl+alt+del it shows two of them running.
Any idiot proof ways to get rid of this and will it come back after a while? Can I damage anythign else?
And why, why do companies put this on people's computers? Can we sue them for screwing up our computer?

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From: IRA on 11/18/2004
OK... So at the risk of sounding dumb.... how does one go about doing the System File Check ? I have Win 98 O S

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From: norman on 01/17/2003
rndal kept screwing up my compaq presario 1500 laptop. I dumped the intrusive real player. someone said they were scumware. they are worse. scum floats on top. real tries to pervade your entire machine and they are worse. just take a look at your registry to see all the instances they create. also have you noticed in the installation, they hide their little check marks at the bottom so you have to scroll down to see how they default check things to try and install and send you stuff you otherwise wouldn't want. the real progams are a cancer to computers in my opinion.

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From: Computerpilot on 01/17/2003

Try disabling all Internet features of Real Player. This might stop it from doing updates or other advertising over the Internet.

In addition, you can find out what IP address Real Player is trying to communicate with and put that in your exclusion list.

Computerpilot

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From: JF on 01/17/2003
P.S. I just installed Ad-Aware, fetched an up-to-the-minute signature file and it did not find rndal.exe or anything resembling it. I can't risk it right now (I'm uploading the dump file for the Blue Screen to Ms), but I'm thinking I might have to uninstall Real Player. Too Bad, I kind of like it.

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From: JF on 01/17/2003
I have a similar problem (but maybe worse) with the Symantec Firewall and rndal.exe. While I'm sleeping (and rndal is not) it apparently tries and Symantec stops it. When I return and re-log on (WinXP) and grant Symantec one-time permission, I get the Blue Screen of Death (IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL).

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From: Randy on 10/31/2002
rndal.exe is the "Real Networks Dynamic Application Launcher" (RNDAL). It's a background task that comes with the realaudio player.
It's scumware, spamware and needs to be removed.
It connects at strange times and mostly at start up and can cause your computer to start slow or not start at all (you have to power up twice or three times so it gives up if you are not on the net).
real player has been known to take over file types it can't even play and thus cause havoc with other players such as winamp.
You can un-install real player, or if you want to stick it in their face, run ad-aware (see below, free) and remove this scum from your computer while still using real player!
I had this problem but ad-aware saved the day! It found a lot of other junk I had no idea was on my computer, everything is great now!
rndal doesn't always show up when you press control alt delete, it may run at odd times.
I run zone alarm the free version and I find it easy to use and keeps out those hackers that try all the time to get in. I have had no problems with zone alarm at all its easy to use and that grc guy is very good at getting updates out.
ad-aware is free and a great program! Hope it stays free.

http://www.lavasoft.de/

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From: Computerpilot on 10/30/2002

You need to uninstall Zone Alarm. Generally, I recommend that computer users that do not consider themselves to be slightly advanced or higher stays away from any *free* firewall software. May I recommend Norton Firewall 2003 or the Zone Alarm Pro suite? I think you will find these to be a better solution than what you are currently running.

The problem with novice or average computer users and Zone Alarm is that they generally will be too liberal or conservative on what they choose to allow internet connection or not. The more conservative user will block out critical Operating System Internet access that will permantly disable your operating system even after Zone Alarm uninstall.

Now to the fix...

After you uninstall Zone Alarm, be sure that there are no instances of it running. Remember, you must completely uninstall Zone Alarm to get rid of it. Disabling will only make things worse. It still runs but blocks ALL internet transmissions instead of identifing them to you.

Depending on your operating system, you will want to run a System File Check (SFC) of your system files. Windows ME is the only OS that does not support this as it scans for system file corruption all the time. You probably will be ok if you just remove Zone Alarm with this operating system. With all others, you will need to post back what type of OS you are running for instructions (if you are unaware of how to accomplish this).

Hope this helps...

Oh, and by the way, you cannot sue the company. However, at the time of purchase, you can demand the particular software be removed. Once you have purchased the computer, you basically have signed a buyer/purchase agreement that you have agreed to purchase the computer with software 'as is'. Sorry, a little legal for you. If it makes you feel any better, the business that sold you the computer probably has some sort of warrenty. If it is still covered, just take it in.

Computerpilot

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