Zonealarm firewall issues

10 Jul 2008

Hi All,
It seems the latest Microsoft Update is causing problems with ZoneAlarm users
Microsoft Update KB951748 is known to cause loss of internet access for ZoneAlarm users on Windows XP/2000. Windows Vista users are not affected.

10 Jul 2008

Personally I'd recommend that people don't use Zone alarm anyway, it's a garbage firewall and lulls people into false security.

10 Jul 2008

Quote by libra091063
Hi All,
It seems the latest Microsoft Update is causing problems with ZoneAlarm users
Microsoft Update KB951748 is known to cause loss of internet access for ZoneAlarm users on Windows XP/2000. Windows Vista users are not affected.

Yeah we had the same issue today and had to do a system restore in order to get back on line.

10 Jul 2008

Quote by Peanut
Personally I'd recommend that people don't use Zone alarm anyway, it's a garbage firewall and lulls people into false security.

Hi Peanut, any free firewalls you would recommend ? Any thoughts on Kerio or Online Armour ? Cheers for any advice

10 Jul 2008

Quote by BjBri69
Personally I'd recommend that people don't use Zone alarm anyway, it's a garbage firewall and lulls people into false security.

Hi Peanut, any free firewalls you would recommend ? Any thoughts on Kerio or Online Armour ? Cheers for any advice
Kerio has always had a good reputation, even from the days of Wingate. I'm not up on Online Armour as I use the hardware firewall in my router. All in all I'm not really a fan of software firewalls really, especially Zone Alarm which is notorious for causing more problems than it solves.
This page may help making a decision:
From that page it would seem that Comodo is the number one contender

10 Jul 2008

Quote by Peanut
Personally I'd recommend that people don't use Zone alarm anyway, it's a garbage firewall and lulls people into false security.

Hi Peanut, any free firewalls you would recommend ? Any thoughts on Kerio or Online Armour ? Cheers for any advice
Kerio has always had a good reputation, even from the days of Wingate. I'm not up on Online Armour as I use the hardware firewall in my router. All in all I'm not really a fan of software firewalls really, especially Zone Alarm which is notorious for causing more problems than it solves.
This page may help making a decision:
From that page it would seem that Comodo is the number one contender
Thanx Peanut will take a look - your help is much appreciated

10 Jul 2008

I`m still using Sygate Pro. I know, that is out of date, but is so friendly interface ;)
I think bout Commodo or Kerio, but from cpl months both are not really free ;)
To b honest - in vista FW is canny good. If you dont visit too many doggie sites, using firefox/opera inst IE, using add-blocks - should b enough to keep you away from troubles ;)

11 Jul 2008

I use Comodo, Lavasoft, Adaware, AVG, Firefox with a popup blocker, and a router with a firewall. Seems to be ok.
Zonealarm did frequently cause my computer to stop dead.

11 Jul 2008

I use AVG and found its the best one.... it updates automatically daily and has stopped quite a few trojan horses getting into my system..
Would recommend this one!

11 Jul 2008

Quote by Misskitty_2008
I use AVG and found its the best one.... it updates automatically daily and has stopped quite a few trojan horses getting into my system..
Would recommend this one!

I used to use AVG for quite a while but I've found the current version to be very buggy and resource hungry and not particularly effective.
Seeing as I'm a cheapskate I use , the free home edition is just that, free. It's fully functional for 60 days then becomes slightly less so but more than adequate for most home users. Then additionally I use for those tricky little rootkit buggers.