For those of you using AVG and ZoneAlarm

[spodosaurus]

An update this week to AVG has been causing a raft of false positives in
a few programs. One of these programs is zone alarm, and it disables the
program. Restoring the entries from the virus vault does not fix the
program, and you must uninstall and reinstall ZoneAlarm. Many people
were lucky and didn't update during the time that the bad update file
was there, and you won't notice any issues. If you can no longer see
ZoneAlarm in your system tray and you run AVG you may have been affected.

Ari


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[housetrained]

Thanks for that Spod, at this time these seem OK but this eye will be kept
open

 

[Charlie]

An update this week to AVG has been causing a raft of false positives in a
few programs. One of these programs is zone alarm, and it disables the
program. Restoring the entries from the virus vault does not fix the
program, and you must uninstall and reinstall ZoneAlarm. Many people were
lucky and didn't update during the time that the bad update file was
there, and you won't notice any issues. If you can no longer see ZoneAlarm
in your system tray and you run AVG you may have been affected.

Ari

I had this happen to me the other day. I found you can set AVG8 (free
version) to allow exceptions for the ZoneAlarm folders. From the User
Interface, Tools, Advanced Settings..., Resident Shield, Exceptions, Add
Path -then- browse to the C:\Windows\System32\ZoneLabs\ folder and the
C:\Program Files\ZoneLabs\ folder (if that's where you installed Zone Alarm.
I haven't had problem since.

Charlie

 

[Jon Danniken]

An update this week to AVG has been causing a raft of false positives in a
few programs. One of these programs is zone alarm, and it disables the
program. Restoring the entries from the virus vault does not fix the
program, and you must uninstall and reinstall ZoneAlarm. Many people were
lucky and didn't update during the time that the bad update file was
there, and you won't notice any issues. If you can no longer see ZoneAlarm
in your system tray and you run AVG you may have been affected.

I stopped using AVG when it gave false-positives to a number of uninfected
files. It changed the "zone" information for the files, and subsequently
WinXP would no longer allow me to access the files, even when AVG and all of
it's services were turned off.

I don't like being forced out of my data, or cut out of the loop, so I
dumped AVG. Still trying to figure out an AV solution that allows me to
control my own machine.

Jon

 

[spodosaurus]

I stopped using AVG when it gave false-positives to a number of uninfected
files. It changed the "zone" information for the files, and subsequently
WinXP would no longer allow me to access the files, even when AVG and all of
it's services were turned off.

I don't like being forced out of my data, or cut out of the loop, so I
dumped AVG. Still trying to figure out an AV solution that allows me to
control my own machine.

Jon

Linux hehehe

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Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant. Please
volunteer to be a marrow donor and literally save someone's life:
http://www.abmdr.org.au/
http://www.marrow.org/