laticsrblue Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 If like me last night, your PC stops accessing the internet after the latest Msoft update is installed. Its because your zonealarm firewall was ****ed up by it. The work around is to set the firewall's internet zone security slider down from high (the default) to medium. To find the slider open Zonealarm then click Firewall from the options on the left then on the Main tab across the top. Your internet will now work. Zonealarm have a new versions which solves the loss of internet access problem. Download the new version, install it then reset the internet zone security slider back to High. Details here : http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/pre...ccessIssue.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny punkster Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 i dumped zonealarms last year after 5 years. not because of the security (its excellent IMO) but it wasn't working with some programs/sites etc even after tweaking the setting like you advise. especially a PITA when microsoft updates happened. what topped it off for me was the way it just slowed down my computer. got norton now-free with BT. never had any worries since...touch wood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beag_teeets Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 what topped it off for me was the way it just slowed down my computer. got norton now-free with BT. never had any worries since...touch wood. Thats the main feature of any Norton product! I uninstall any instance or Norton I come across, horrible software. I've used zonealarm for years and not had any problems with it at all, far less resource hungry than Crapton and the associated bloatware that comes with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimsleftfoot Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 i dumped zonealarms last year after 5 years. not because of the security (its excellent IMO) but it wasn't working with some programs/sites etc even after tweaking the setting like you advise. especially a PITA when microsoft updates happened. what topped it off for me was the way it just slowed down my computer. got norton now-free with BT. never had any worries since...touch wood. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH Not Norton - Its like showing a red rag to a bull Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny punkster Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH Not Norton - Its like showing a red rag to a bull yeah,i know all about the stories,but its not let me down in the 14 months ive used it,so no complaints yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razza699 Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 Symantecs good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorvik_latic Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 yeah,i know all about the stories,but its not let me down in the 14 months ive used it,so no complaints yet. Didn't you say you had problems with your PC the other day? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusoe Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 COMODO has been getting very good reviews as a free personal firewall. I had the problem mentioned above, assumed it was ZoneAlarm, and replaced it with COMODO (seems decent so far). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny punkster Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 Didn't you say you had problems with your PC the other day? thats old age computer probs..nothing to do with that! good try! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oa_exile Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 If like me last night, your PC stops accessing the internet after the latest Msoft update is installed. Its because your zonealarm firewall was ****ed up by it. The work around is to set the firewall's internet zone security slider down from high (the default) to medium. To find the slider open Zonealarm then click Firewall from the options on the left then on the Main tab across the top. Your internet will now work. Zonealarm have a new versions which solves the loss of internet access problem. Download the new version, install it then reset the internet zone security slider back to High. Details here : http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/pre...ccessIssue.html Yep , I had the same problem yesterday myself. Tried to fix it and finished up giving Talktalk a load of grief not knowing it was Zone Alarm They changed my modem from USB to ADSL as I already had a talktalk modem and stuff in the box unused as I used my old modem what I already had from my prevoius provider. Anyway hours later , still had the same problem and then the guys "Supervisor" asked if i had Zone Alarm installed Anyway to cut the story to a happy ending .........changing to "Medium" did the trick The good news is that since I changed to an ADSL line my internet speed is now brilliant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 I use Norton on my big box PC, and I've not seen any slowdown on my kit. My old PC also had Norton and it suffered an amazing amount of slowdown, but it was an older version. My laptop has ThreatFire3 and is an excellent piece of freeware security... http://www.threatfire.com/download/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oa_exile Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 I use Norton on my big box PC, and I've not seen any slowdown on my kit. My old PC also had Norton and it suffered an amazing amount of slowdown, but it was an older version. My laptop has ThreatFire3 and is an excellent piece of freeware security... http://www.threatfire.com/download/ .............. so why have I not got all this ? I expect "MY" IT man to keep me up to date Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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