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(Message started by: Ueli on Aug 4^th, 2005, 9:10pm)

Title: Warning for all ZoneAlarm users!
Post by Ueli on Aug 4^th, 2005, 9:10pm

Do not install the new version 6 of ZoneAlarm!!!

Unless you have a nostalgic bend, it will drive you absolutely crazy. Because it adds half an eternity to boot-up and on clicking to open any program there will be a delay of 6 to 10 second before anything happens.

A built in spyware monitor would be nice, but not at the price of a speed reduction that reminds you of 386 machine. :(
The notion some people have of progress, *shaking my head*

BTW, re-installing the previous version is quite a bitsch.

Ueli [smiley=smokin.gif]

Title: Re: Warning for all ZoneAlarm users!
Post by pattik on Aug 4^th, 2005, 9:40pm

I downloaded their version 5.5, but I haven't installed it yet. Do you know any problems with that version? My Norton is about to expire, and I was planning on using the Zone Alarm soon.

PK

Title: Re: Warning for all ZoneAlarm users!
Post by forgetfulnot on Aug 4^th, 2005, 11:15pm

I remove norton then reinstall, the clock starts all over again.

Lee

Title: Re: Warning for all ZoneAlarm users!
Post by Kirk on Aug 5^th, 2005, 2:09am

I use Shorewall from Swansea. In the last two years it has done the job great and hasn't affected system performance at all.

Title: Re: Warning for all ZoneAlarm users!
Post by Karla on Aug 5^th, 2005, 10:51am

We had terrible problems with v6. It was a pain to uninstall and even more of one to get the old version back on.

Title: Re: Warning for all ZoneAlarm users!
Post by don on Aug 5^th, 2005, 11:53am

Thanks Ueli

Just in the nick of time.

I've been updating my spyware stuff this morning and ZoneAlarm was next!