At 08:26 AM 4/10/02 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following: >I bought ZoneAlarm Pro for a friend of mine - he is currently running >Win98SE. Originally the program worked absolutely great for quite a period >of time, as expected, without any problems of any kind. > >Unfortunately, one day a week or so ago, the program started acting as I >have never seen - it started asking about every single connect to the >internet, including every one that had happened previous. This became >non-stop no matter where you were connecting. Even if you told it to >remember, it would ask (and ask and ask and ask and ...) if it should >allow. No matter what I tried to do, including uninstalling and reverting >back to the older version (had upgraded to the new version), would stop >this problem from happening. It REALLY started to drive us both nuts, and >finally I had to totally uninstall ZoneAlarm Pro from his system, and >install the firewall that comes now with OnTract's SystemSuite package, >version 4 - the newest version (since I had installed ZoneAlarm on his >system, originally did not install OnTract's firewall from that package.) >This obviously stopped the ZoneAlarm problem BUT I really wish I could >figure out what in the world could have caused this problem to begin with, >since ZoneAlarm has always been an absolutely great package to use. > >Any ideas of what caused / how to solve???
For reinstall problems see question 1 here: http://www.zonelabs.com/services/support_install.htm In many cases ZoneAlarm should be disabled before installation of other software, especially if the other software requires connection to the Internet. I don't know if you did a program install while ZA was working but this could be the problem. I've had similar experiences... -- Gerry Boyd ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
