The only indication which pointed me in the direction of Zone Alarm were
two warnings from ZA which displayed that it had blocked Windows Update,
as well as Mozilla's Firefox. There was no place in ZA (that I know of),
to confirm this and/or to unblock this move. I never got a prompt which
asked me how I wanted to control the program.
Update: at this point, ZA's official workaround is to uninstall MS's
Update. It looks like they are throwing the ball back into MS's court.
Richard P.
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
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.
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