On Sep 9, 1:07*am, "Hank Arnold (MVP)" <rasi...@aol.com> wrote:
> IIRC, there was a problem described recently regarding ZA and a recent
> MS update/patch. Check the ZA web site for the problem. I seem to recall
> that they had a work around that is basically what you did. Maybe there
> is a permanent patch that doesn't involve reducing the protection level.....
>
Yeah, the fatal combination was ZA, XP Service Pack 2, and some MS
security update number that ended in a 48 I think. Killed my wife's
computer - lost all internet access, caused ZA to block all traffic.
MS of course pointed the finger at ZA. Workaround was to lower ZA's
defense level, or uninstall the MS security update. I opted to
uninstall the security update. Came out with a patch to ZA fairly
quickly, installed the patch, reinstalled the MS security update, all
is now well.
Oh yeah, and changed the MS Update settings to check but NOT
automatically install the updates.
"Jim Higgins" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:c13dc4l9eh52ujhnot1oq67ss9h7rguv55@4ax.com...
> Do you still have the invitation? If so, please post it complete with
> all headers. You can replace your own email address with XXXX if you
> don't want to expose it, but please leave the rest as is.
Yes, that was my thought as well - it looks like the "invitation" was faked.
I'd be looking to thoroughly scan everything to see what the fake upodate
has installed!
FWIW I installed ZA v8 upgrade on our four systems a few days ago without
any grief at all. Certainly an infinitely better product than Norton, whose
primary anti-malware strategy appears to be to consume all tyhe available
resources such that your PC simply has no spare capacity to run a virus (or
indeed any applications)...
On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:55:39 +0000, Jim Higgins
<invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 20:20:24 -0700, "Timothy Daniels"
><SpamBucket@NoSpamPlease.biz> wrote:
>
>
>>On reboot this morning, v.7(!) of ZoneAlarm was causing the PC
>>to creep really slowly again. After a couple hours, I gave up and
>>went out and bought a 3-license copy of Norton Internet Security
>>Suite at Office Depot (free after rebates!).
>
>Norton Internet Suite (pretty much anyone's "Internet Suite") is a
>real resource hog.
>
I agree. Unfortunately so far all the ones I've tried over the years
seem to hog resources at times but I realize some are better than
others. Of course on the other hand, I guess periodically it will
take some resources when it's in checking mode?? Currently I'm using
Kaspersky and I like it overall but there are times when it slows my
system to a crawl for a short while then things will return to normal.
"RnR" wrote:
> It's well documented even recently that Norton is a resource hog
> meaning that it will slow your system down. Based on your post, I
> don't think you want to install it. My advice is to return it.
I know about the resource hog - I used to run Norton a few
years ago. I'll try returning it, but the cellophane wrap is already
open (not the sealed CD sleeve, though.
"Hank Arnold (MVP)" wrote:
> I would be cautious about installing Norton. It has garnered over the years a
> bad reputation for "bloatware" that uses a lot of system resources.
>
> IIRC, there was a problem described recently regarding ZA and a recent MS
> update/patch. Check the ZA web site for the problem. I seem to recall that
> they had a work around that is basically what you did. Maybe there is a
> permanent patch that doesn't involve reducing the protection level....
Yes, I read about that MS patch, so I checked the WINDOWS folder,
and it was installed months ago with no problems that I was aware of at
the time. I guess I dodged a bullet.
"Jim Higgins" wrote
> "Timothy Daniels" wrote:
>
>>I recently clicked on an invitation from Zone Labs to download
>>an upgrade to version 8 of Zone Alarm Security Suite. After
>>the installation my computer turned to cold mollases and ****o
>>sites started popping up on my screen. I finally had to cut the
>>power to shut down the PC. I uninstalled Zone Alarm v. 8,
>>and re-installed v.7, but the PC was still slow, especially my
>>Opera browser. It was really slow to load (~1 min), then slow
>>to react to the keyboard, then slow to render a page (~1min).
>>Merely shutting down Zone Alarm didn't improve the speed.
>>I finally had to unistall v.7, manually pick through the files and
>>then the registry, deleting any folder named "ZoneLabs". Then
>>I re-installed v.7 again. Now the PC is back to normal. YMMV,
>>but be warned about v.8 of Zone Alarm.
>>
>>*TimDaniels*
>
>
> Do you still have the invitation? If so, please post it complete with
> all headers. You can replace your own email address with XXXX if you
> don't want to expose it, but please leave the rest as is.
The invitation was a popup, and until I told ZA v.7 to wait another
60 days, the invitation to upgrade popped up everytime ZA checked
for updates. Since no one else on ZA forums is complaining about
****o popups, I'll assume that the **** got through during the transition
period between v. 7 and v.8. I *will* be more concerned if it happens
again, though. Meanwhile, the complaints about v.8 functionality pour
in at the ZA forums.
Re: ZoneAlarm v.7 working again 
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