With windows XP built in firewall, I wonder if Zone Alarm is as needed now as it was in the past.
Kevin On 8/15/05, James Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday my Zone Alarm software gave me a notice that an upgrade was > available that I was entitled to since I had paid for a one year license. > So I did the upgrade, much to my regret. It broke Cache. Cache would not > start at all and it did not leave an error in the cconsole.log. I have > spent countless hours since Saturday with a lot of help today from > Intersystems support trying to resolve this problem. Thanks to Rath and > Rich at Intersystems, Cache is now working again on my Windows XP computer. > I sent a message to Zone Labs and have received no reply from them. I > should add that this the second time that Zone Alarm has broken Cache for > me. The first time was an easy fix. This time it was a mess. I do not > know what Zone Alarm was doing to cause the problem. I will also add that > Zone Alarm also caused Photoshop to crash the first time I tried to start > it. However, Photoshop seemed to work fine after starting it a second time. > I presume that for both Cache and Photoshop that Zone Alarm's attempts to > block certain software behavior until you train it was the problem. With > Photoshop there was only one or two of the warnings that popped up. With > Cache there must have been 20 or more. I will probably try to live with > Zone Alarm until my license expires, but I will not upgrade it again. I > would strongly recommend against using Zone Alarm on a system that is > running Cache. > > Jim Gray > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
