Can you explain in more detail what this means?  I have nothing in the 
"Programs" dialog of the Zone Alarm firewall set to "block" (with a couple of 
exceptions).  I have almost everything set to "ask."  (And I have only a couple 
of things set to "allow.")  So won't the Zone Alarm firewall ask when some 
program / dll / xx needs access?  That's what has always happened when I'm 
updating software (which I always do manually, never automatically).

If the new Windows Update needs access to something new, wouldn't a change in 
the setting of the Zone Alarm firewall allow that access? (So that automatic 
updates could be enabled, if one wished.) Is there something in the Zone Alarm 
firewall that always blocks some specific access "channel" no matter what the 
settings are?

I see that MS is up to it's usual tactics: "DOS isn't done 'til Lotus won't 
run."

Fred Holmes

At 02:30 PM 7/9/2008, Richard P. wrote:
>The latest version of Windows Update is incompatible with Zone Alarm, causing 
>the firewall to block access to the Internet via IE and/or Firefox. Zone Alarm 
>is working on a solution, but in the meantime, I've shutdown ZA and gone back 
>to Windows firewall until they can get along.
>
>
>Richard P.


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