Hi Andrew, Thanks to your input I've established beyond doubt that ZA and The Bat! can't work together reliably. I have 2 Win2K partitions, one for primary use and one for, "Oh! "!Ł$*%(&". After my latest failure to fetch mail this afternoon I installed The Bat! on my emergency partition - which has never seen ZA - and lo, the mail came through.
To follow up on your assertion that simply disabling ZA should do the trick, I have to say that's not the case here. After a recent failure I killed the executable, stopped and disabled the True Vector service and re-started the system. All sorts of TCP/IP problems occurred until True Vector was restarted, so I'm a little leery about de-installing ZA until I can be sure that a functional stack will be left behind. Anyway, thanks again for helping me to avoid the problem, even if we are no nearer to identifying it for a fix. I will certainly post a bug report to Zone Labs and see if they are interested. Regards, Peter HB > Hello Jernej, >> an answer I got from somebody... | ... a tech i work with... > Unfortunately, that quote is fourth-hand, once removed. ;-) >> MP3 downloads with WinMX always contained bad frames > I think the wrong program's being blamed. I don't want to discuss that > in this list. Let's just agree to disagree. >> as for causing trouble when disabled: with the free version on >> Windows 98, I got annoyed by it's popping-up alerts all the time > Then it wasn't disabled. ;-) >> after a while started getting weird network errors > That's more like the ZA I know. However, I'd sure hope that on this > list we could be a bit more precise. Then again, if one wants to > diagnose network problems, there are admittedly better O/S's to be > working in than W98. >> Another time vsmon.exe crashed... this time I was getting connection >> refused > In NT 4.0 or later, one would stop and restart ZA with the commands I > previously provided. In W98, one has the pleasure of rebooting. > Still, this is a bit removed from the issue of whether ZA would be > expected to interfere with operation of an e-mail client. > If ZA is not working correctly, I maintain it CAN be disabled. If one > is using NT 4.0 or a later O/S, ZA can be shut down by stopping the > services and killing the executable (which only provides the > interface). In W98, it's a little less elegant, but eminently > possible. Once disabled, ZA will interfere with NOTHING because it > will simply not be running. > If anyone wants to know more about how to disable ZA, please contact > me privately. > regards, Andy > [Using The Bat! 1.62r under Windows 2000 Pro SP3 > on a "made from scratch" P4-2.4 GHz/512 MB RAM] > ________________________________________________________ > Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBTECH" information: > http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html ________________________________________________________ http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
