Zone Alarm problems?

Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 9 Jul 2006 11:16 am

There's a guy on the Weber board (who I do not trust--he is often a jerk) who is claiming that there is a whole major disaster brewing whereby a ZoneAlarm update creates a disaster that results in the need for a drive reformat. http://www.webervst.com/amps/messages/14693.html

Wiz--have you heard any buzz about this?

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 9 Jul 2006 11:24 am

I'll look into it, since I use ZoneAlarm, and report back to you.

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Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 9 Jul 2006 11:38 am

I just came from the User Forums at ZoneLabs.com and some people are reporting problems caused by update 6.5, today.

Here is the particular forum to read about ZoneAlarm Installation and Upgrade problems: http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/board?board.id=inst

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 9 Jul 2006 11:58 am

I should mention that I use ZoneAlarm Free Edition, and have upgraded to version 6.5.722.000 and have had no problems whatsoever. Furthermore, ZoneLabs have not been able to reproduce the problems people are reporting, but are working on it (trying to crash the product or Windows). Some users have uninstalled the new version (read all of this first!), downloaded the previous version, 6.1.744.001, from here, and are waiting for another update that may fix their problems.

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Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 9 Jul 2006 12:08 pm

Thanks for the info, Wiz. I'm running (free version) 6.1.737. I have no intention of doing anything but sitting on it. If/when it is recommended that I update, I will do so only after finding out the status of this issue. I think I may have disabled the update notification a while back, is why I have this older version.

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 10 Jul 2006 9:06 am

Jon,

I have ZA auto update [free version] and updated to 6.5.722.000 last week, or whenever it came out, and have had no problems; yet.

I'm running Windows Home XP.

mickd · Post by **mickd** » 10 Jul 2006 1:48 pm

6.5.722 here too, XP Home, no probs so far ..