Tuesday July 8 update doesnt' work with Zone Alarm

Something in the XP Home (SP2) update conflicts
with Zone Alarm, and you get no internet access.

Either go into medium security for the internet or
uninstall the update, to get it back.
--
rhhardin@mindspring.com

On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:14:30 -0400, Ron Hardin
<rhhardin@mindspring.com> wrote:

>Something in the XP Home (SP2) update conflicts
>with Zone Alarm, and you get no internet access.
>


One reason why I try not to update my OS (one reason is because I
don't know what it's doing). I know there are probably a lot of
holes in my OS but with all those updates and likely more to come, I'm
not convinced my holes are almost gone. Therefore I rely more on my
router and firewall. I'm not saying I can't be hacked but so far so
good. Truthfully my system isn't worth hacking because I have nothing
important unencrypted and if they mess my system up, I just restore it
back.

"Ron Hardin" <rhhardin@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:4873CAA6.473A@mindspring.com...
> Something in the XP Home (SP2) update conflicts
> with Zone Alarm, and you get no internet access.
>
> Either go into medium security for the internet or
> uninstall the update, to get it back.
> --

Yep. Same thing here. Had to switch to medium security to connect to the
internet. The local network through the router worked fine though. I had 3
updates today. One was the malicious software removal tool but I forget what
the other 2 were. Do you know which one is the culprit?

We're not alone:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r207...eAlarm-PROBLEM

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 20:46:22 -0400, "Martin Walker"
<sorrycharlie@nospam.net> wrote:

>
>"Ron Hardin" <rhhardin@mindspring.com> wrote in message
>news:4873CAA6.473A@mindspring.com...
>> Something in the XP Home (SP2) update conflicts
>> with Zone Alarm, and you get no internet access.
>>
>> Either go into medium security for the internet or
>> uninstall the update, to get it back.
>> --
>
>Yep. Same thing here. Had to switch to medium security to connect to the
>internet. The local network through the router worked fine though. I had 3
>updates today. One was the malicious software removal tool but I forget what
>the other 2 were. Do you know which one is the culprit?
>


That's why I don't bother updating when I don't know what it's
updating nor trust MS that they test their stuff well before dishing
it out. I really think people are getting a false sense of security
thinking MS updates are helping when there are so many weak spots.
Don't get me wrong, I think XP is a good OS except for security (a no
brainer at this time for most of us).

The culprit is kb951748. I found a better solution - I uninstalled Zone
Alarm.

"Martin Walker" <sorrycharlie@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:iSTck.35$EI5.27@newsfe02.lga...
>
> "Ron Hardin" <rhhardin@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:4873CAA6.473A@mindspring.com...
>> Something in the XP Home (SP2) update conflicts
>> with Zone Alarm, and you get no internet access.
>>
>> Either go into medium security for the internet or
>> uninstall the update, to get it back.
>> --
>
> Yep. Same thing here. Had to switch to medium security to connect to the
> internet. The local network through the router worked fine though. I had 3
> updates today. One was the malicious software removal tool but I forget
> what the other 2 were. Do you know which one is the culprit?
>
>

"joe_tide" <joe_tide@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:-rednWlpqqZMsejVnZ2dnUVZ_qTinZ2d@posted.winbeam...
> The culprit is kb951748. I found a better solution - I uninstalled Zone
> Alarm.
>

w0oT!

What did you replace ZA with if anything, Joe? Comodo, etc?

RTR

Stew

"S.Lewis" <Gossamer@interesting.com> wrote in message
news:Fxadk.12884$1I.10478@bignews4.bellsouth.net.. .
>
> "joe_tide" <joe_tide@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:-rednWlpqqZMsejVnZ2dnUVZ_qTinZ2d@posted.winbeam...
>> The culprit is kb951748. I found a better solution - I uninstalled Zone
>> Alarm.
>>
>
> w0oT!
>
> What did you replace ZA with if anything, Joe? Comodo, etc?
>
> RTR
>
> Stew
>

This was on the wife's computer Stew. I just enabled Windows firewall.
There's nothing on that machine that can't be replaced.

I felt the update was more important than Zone Alarm. ZA is getting
frustrating.

I use Kaspersky on my main machine - no problems.

On Jul 9, 2:01*am, "Martin Walker" <sorrychar...@nospam.net> wrote:
> We're not alone:
>
> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r207...51748-and-Zone...

The conspiracy theorists will have you believing that it's a
deliberate MS hatchet job to "persuade" you to use it's built-in
firewall.

And because it's MS, the conspiracy has legs.