Beware of Zone Alarm 5 and chkdsk

[kawipoo]

Beaware of updating zone alarm to zone alarm 5. There are currently several
problems.
1. Chkdsk /f upon reboot no longer performs therefore you can not correct
disk problems.
2. Norton antivirus email scan no longer works.

 

[Seancito]

Are you sure?

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

The many problems with ZA 5 seems to manifest itself in different ways under
different computer configuration.

I have 4 different problems with it, one of which, has not ever been
mentioned in their forums. Seeing as how the problem exists after a clean
install, before any service packs or any other software is installed, I can
only think that it is an interaction with my M/B chipset.

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Yves Leclerc]

I have ZA 5 free and Norton Anti-Virus 2004, without any problems.

Always run the latest chipset drivers and other drivers.

 

[NoNoBadDog!]

None of the problems that you state occurred here. Everything is working
normally.

Bobby

 

[Daniel Louwrens]

Ive just been to their forum - it seems there is a problem - I also ran V5
latest updates etc. Had a seperate problem and went to recover & repair XP
Pro - and now can't boot up at all get chckdsk/F error message and stops.
While running XP had no problems with the program just when I tried to
repair another problem this has happened. Coincidence????? I don't know but
have not had a previous problem like this, so I feel it's linked!!!

 

[drift]

Beaware of updating zone alarm to zone alarm 5. There are currently several
problems.
1. Chkdsk /f upon reboot no longer performs therefore you can not correct
disk problems.
2. Norton antivirus email scan no longer works.

HOLD OFF on ZAP5!!!!

I had the CHKDSK problem, too. Also, at times right-clicking an icon
took 30 seconds to bring up the menu, then go back to norm, like a
Trojan that hides when it sees input activity.

I have also found myself online unexpectedly after boot-up.

I have XP home, Norton's 2003, MailwasherPro, Zone labs Pest Patrol,
PentiumIV, 2.8GHZ, 1GB ram and on-board ethernet for DSL, netgear card
for connection via hub to my backup server.

I uninstalled ZoneAlarmPro 5, reinstalled 4.5.594 and everything is
running fine.

ZoneAlarm's page FAQ's have a link to download 4.5, I didn't try it as
I still had it in my downloads directory.

Hope this add'tl info helps.

HEY Zone Labs, are you listening? I don't like chatting with robots!!
Get human help - get those profiteers out of there and go back to
being a product manufacturer, because if you don't, you'll see some
other firewall maker become predominant. Don't ENRON yourself!!


drift