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Firewall "issue"

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Stinger

Post Thu May 27, 2004 4:04 pm

Firewall "issue"

It's got more bark than bite but it appears Zone Alarm's newest version 5.0 is causing some irritations. Worse case dceneario...chkdsk on at least WinXP is dead for some people. Also I manually ran chkdsk after injstallation and the process took about 10 minutes where normally it's like a minute and a half.

People are pretty upset on the ZA boards and the Computing.net boards. Still, as I mentioned on one of them with everyone crying wolf it is easy to deduct the probelm is bigger than it really is because how often do people complain when things are working like they should?

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calshire

Post Thu May 27, 2004 6:54 pm

I read something about this yesterday too, while researching on my NIS 2002 firewall problem. A lot of people are complaining about ZA these days.

Speaking of which, if you're using NIS 2002 and you downloaded the LU redirector update, be prepared for some nasty surprises. :/

mustang

Post Thu May 27, 2004 7:37 pm

Correct me if Im wrong, cause i've never used it before but isn't zone alarm free?

Esquilax

Post Thu May 27, 2004 8:13 pm

Mustang - There is a free version of ZA, but the "Pro" version must be paid for, and has more features.

Personally, I stick with version 4.5 (Pro). It works perfectly, and has little overhead.

Still, if you want a free firewall people, the "Kerio" firewall (free) is supposed to be good.

Edited by - esquilax on 5/27/2004 9:14:05 PM

Wolf_Demon

Post Thu May 27, 2004 9:18 pm

i have the zone alarm pro...and im just too lazy to update to 5.0......well...actually, my computer managed to get the BSOD when i started to run the installation every time.....

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