Zone Alarm 6.5.731 available

[PA Bear]

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The latest free Zone Alarm is now available: version 6.5.731. The
previous Update version 6.5.725 proved to be a nightmare for most
updaters (including me). The ZA forum is chock full of disaster stories
about that ill-conceived update.

This latest version, however, seems to work fine.

</QP>
Source: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsme.general/msg/75bde5da505e2f7d

This update address the inability to change IE home page experienced by users of ZA Free v6.5.

ZA 6.5 (Free and Pro) is NOT supported in Win98/Win98SE/WinME.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Glad to see my favorite security software being updated. I actually use
Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite - which is often found on sale for
free or cheap - and had no problem with 6.5.725. Do you have statistics
supporting your assertion that the update was a nightmare for "most
updaters"?

Which is not to say that Zone Alarm hasn't given me the occasional
problem - recently I had a situation where either the virus definitions
themselves or the definition file ID numbers were not being updated -
but I can't think of any problem I've had with Zone Alarm going back to
v.1 that I would call a "nightmare".

Come to think of it, I can't think of a problem I've had with any
software I've installed since the Win 98 SE era that I would call a
nightmare. Prior to that I regularly trashed my installations almost as
well as I trashed my dorm room in college - and that's saying something
- until I finally decided I wasn't going to let that happen anymore and
acquired the habits that have resulted in years of trouble-free computing.

Or maybe we just have different notions of what constitutes a nightmare?

 

[Guest]

..725 worked fine on my XP Pro machine, but it locked IE6 on 2 Win2K installs
for me
Thanks for answering me by accident!

 

[Sandi - Microsoft MVP]

I had to work on a system that was unable to access the internet using any
programme that utilised Port 80... guess what the problem was ... you
betcha... ZoneAlarm... .a less than experienced technician installed, then
uninstalled, Zone Alarm and left the True Vector monitoring service behind,
as well as a Network Monitoring Device which appeared in device manager as
hardware, but was actually a software service... considering ZAs propensity
for protecting itself from being stopped/removed, I had a hell of a time
getting that system fixed... brute force was required, outside of the
Windows GUI.

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Sandi Hardmeier
Microsoft MVP since 1999
http://www.ie-vista.com
Internet Explorer Community
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/default.mspx
The email address I use for newsgroups is a spam trap and does not get read.

 

[Ted Zieglar]

So the real problem was the "less than experienced technician"...

I am no kind of technician at all. But I know how to read, and that's
all the skill that was required in this case.

 

[Sandi - Microsoft MVP]

You betcha

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Sandi Hardmeier
Microsoft MVP since 1999
http://www.ie-vista.com
Internet Explorer Community
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/default.mspx
The email address I use for newsgroups is a spam trap and does not get read.