Zone Alarm

[Lt. Wright]

Will zone alarm work with service pack 2 firewall. I
heard that if you had both one must be shutdown or you
can not get on the Internet is this ture? Is zone alarm a
good firewall program?

 

[Barney]

Will zone alarm work with service pack 2 firewall. I
heard that if you had both one must be shutdown or you
can not get on the Internet is this ture? Is zone alarm a
good firewall program?

Personaly I am using "WinPatrol" with the firewall on and no problems
with it and SP2.

 

[Guest]

According to the posts I've read in the past on ZA's own forum site, this
appears to be true. It's either ZA or Windows Firewall, not both at the
same time.

Now that Zonelabs has finally FIXED most of the problems with version 5.x,
yeah, I'd say it's a pretty good firewall again. At the very least it has
the capability to control unauthorized outbound traffic, where Windows
Firewall does not. But it also does quite a bit more, and I find ZAPro
handy and reasonably effective in doing its other tasks.

 

[SlowJet]

Lt.,

I just downloaded ZA free which also has a 15 day trial for ZA PRO with
all the goodies.
Although this was on a W2k machine it is working great, has cool screen, and
set things up in stages with informative messages and text.

I am sure that it words with SP2, it works with WFW as an EXception program,
but it will work great all y its self.

Try the new free and if you don't want the pro after 14 day set the "Change
License" check and it will revert to the free which is still the Firewall
part but not the pop up.

The really cool thing I noticed was that it tells you when a program is
being blocked or needs access. Thos ethat need access can go to ZA and they
will make recommedations (a check box item).

I find it much more user friendly than Norton FW, and much less of a
resource hog. I was runing it on an older Pent 266 MMX with 128 MB and there
was no complains.

GL,

SJ

 

[Dick Sutton]

I was using Zone Alarm (v. 5.1.011.000) and installed SP2 with absolutely no
problems. Either Zone Alarm or Windows XP coordinated the process during
the boot up because when it was all said and done, Windows firewall was off
and Zone Alarm was on and the Security Center said everything was cool.

I am running just fine. I am impressed with Zone Alarm (and it's free).

Dick Sutton

 

[JAX]

Hey Lt,

If you install ZA, Windows firewall will automatically recognize it and
disable the ICF "internet connection firewall" that is native to SP2. It
works for me!

LOL, JAX

 

[JAX]

I should have mentioned, use the latest version of ZA. I am running, V
5.1.011.000

JAX

 

[Bob Byrne]

I was using Zone Alarm (v. 5.1.011.000) and installed SP2 with absolutely no
problems. .........
Dick Sutton

Ditto for me and I'm using the ZA Pro Security Suite.

 

[Richard]

Some people said things, and then:-
Bob Byrne added

Ditto for me and I'm using the ZA Pro Security Suite.

Me too. Works like a charm. No conflicts, no headaches.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Will zone alarm work with service pack 2 firewall. I
heard that if you had both one must be shutdown or you
can not get on the Internet is this ture? Is zone alarm a
good firewall program?

Zone Alarm is good, and will block outgoing problems as well as probes
from outside (which is all the Windows one does). You might well find
the free version of ZA enough for your needs. Make sure you get the
latest 5.1.011 build; you will then find that when it starts up it turns
the Windows Firewall off - that is OK, saving duplicating the work

 

[Jake]

It works okay for me, and I installed service pack 2 a couple of weeks
ago.

 

[Rick]

Ditto for me and I'm using the ZA Pro Security Suite.

Me too

 

[Bob Eyster]

Not matter what FW you use, it's not a good idea to run two different FW's
at the same time.

The latest version of ZA when active will turn off MS FA and when ZA is
inactive it turns MS FA on.


Bob Eyster

 

[SlowJet]

Well, according to the dissonance theory the more one points out that the
Personal firewall on a personal computer does indeed work with the WFW for
specific overlapping advantages, the more the idea will be protested as it
goes against the teachings of a few hardcore FW monks from long ago running
large servers under extreme conditions, even though no one can provide proof
that the two FW's working together will be noticed by a single end user on a
single computer.



I may as well be talking about Linux or explain how the Quantum string
theory has determined that there is no God and that the real Reality is
within our own mind, being infinitely deeper and deeper.



I am convinced that there have been many men that lived and died with
knowledge that the world can not digest to save their own necks. But not all
is drab. Every 688 years or so, we get to try it again. J



In the mean time why don't you just !@#$% try it first?

Obviously the ZA people have taken away you choice so your out of box
experience will not interfere with your life of drugs, sex and Rock & Roll.





Long Live Mother Nature and Chaos,



SJ

 

[JAX]

Not sure but, I think under SP2, only one firewall will be recognized by the
system. I know that my computer will only allow one, unless there is a
manual way to set it to run 2 or more that I am not aware of.

JAX

 

[Bob Eyster]

Obviously the ZA people have taken away you choice so your out of box
experience will not interfere with your life of drugs, sex and Rock &
Roll.

Who's on drug's


Bob Eyster

 

[Interrogative]

Will zone alarm work with service pack 2 firewall. I
heard that if you had both one must be shutdown or you
can not get on the Internet is this ture? Is zone alarm a
good firewall program?

I use both ON at the same time, no probs.

 

[Interrogative]

According to the posts I've read in the past on ZA's own forum site, this
appears to be true. It's either ZA or Windows Firewall, not both at the
same time.

Untrue. I run both at the same time.

 

[Interrogative]

Not matter what FW you use, it's not a good idea to run two different FW's
at the same time.

That depends on the firewalls entirely. In the case of the latest ZA and
XPSP2 firewall running at the same time, no probs whatsoever. I customarily
do that because I have ZAP set so tight that sometimes I want to turn it off
for a moment.

The latest version of ZA when active will turn off MS FA and when ZA is
inactive it turns MS FA on.

NOPE. It does NOT turn the XPSP2 firewall ON when you manually turn ZA OFF.

 

[Joseph K.]

Not matter what FW you use, it's not a good idea to run two different FW's
at the same time.

The latest version of ZA when active will turn off MS FA and when ZA is
inactive it turns MS FA on.


Bob Eyster

One curious thing about the latest ZA version is that it will not let
you save attachments while reading newsgroups using Agent. Has this
problem been solved?

Joseph K.