Zone Alarm Fire Wall

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Hi,

I have recently had problems with Zone Alarm Fire Wall. I have used it for a few years and never had a problem. How ever recently it blocked port 80 on my PC ( which is running XP Pro SP2 ) and Spy Bot Search & Destory ( SBSD )also helped in this back lash on port 80 !

I have fixed the SPSD program by using the program update utility, and it now works fine. ZA appears to not want to play along any more. So I uninstalled it and down loaded the latest free version from the ZA home page.
When I install the program and reboot. My XP gets stuck on the knight rider bar, just before it should go to the user accounts.
So I go into safe mode and unistall it, re-boot and XP fires up to desk top no problem !

What is up with Zone Alarm !

Has any one eles had problems ?
 
Erm I'm pretty sure you just right click the tray icon and theres an option to turn off defence plus.

Also when it pops up a box asking you to confirm click remember and also change the type of program to trusted application. I have it on both my laptop and desktop however I didn;t seem to get asked about d+ on my desktop. Seems like I have to different versions although it's not told me to update on either.
 
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Comodo Firewall seems to be a very capable piece of software but, for me, it seems to be quite complicated to get it to run and configured in a way that I would like, even with the help of their forums.

So what I am now using is Vista Firewall Control...

http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/index.html

This is also free and allows you control over outbound connections via Vista's own built in firewall. Whilst this application is no where near as sohiticated s Comodo it more than meets my needs :)
 
LoadsaMoney said:
ZA is rubbish, thats what up with it, i had no end of problems with it to when i used to use it, but i sacked it for Comodo and never looked back, been using it couple of years or so now.

http://www.comodo.com/products/free_products.html

Its Free to. :)
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Seconded. So much better than ZA. :)

WotDa said:
After going back to this, I still can't work out how to stop Defence+?

Or does it just spam me every time a program changes? I don't care if it thinks it's a virus, I have anti-virus software for that ffs!
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You can choose not to turn it on during the install. A new version with some updates is out today/yesterday so you could download that and not install Defence+.
 
I too have dumped ZoneAlarm and moved over to Comodo. For me ZA worked fine for the first few days then when you booted up the PC there'd be a big delay before the PC was usable as ZA was doing whatever it was doing. If I removed, cleaned and re-installed it again would be fine for a couple of days and then the same thing.
 
I used to use ZA but after reading this forum I switched to Comodo and it is much better. ZA always used to make my online games crash (by asking if i wanted to allow) even though I had set it as a rule! Comodo is much better and you can choose not to use Defence+.
 
zone alarm is a steaming pos, if you've got a router and aren't click-happy, then you don't need a firewall
 
So it appears a lot of people have had problems with ZA !
I have been using ZA for a few years now and never had a problem till now, and it just will not allow XP to boot to User account screen !
It must be knocking some drivers or or files out. Plus it is now bundled with ZA Spy Ware Stopper !
 
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