Recent Experience with Zone Alarm (Junk)
Recent Experience with Zone Alarm (Junk)
am 16.09.2006 20:57:55 von quadaces
For as long as Zonelabs has been in development of Zone Alarm you
would think they would have the bugs worked out by now. I used it
many years ago and it was so bug ridden I moved on to other products.
I decided to give Zone Alarm Pro another shot this week and purchased
and installed it and I see they still have not worked out the bugs.
I spent two days trying to overcome problems with Zone Alarm, things
like it all of a sudden closing the internet connection on
applications that it had previously allowed to work, not allowing my
computer to shutdown but hanging on the Zone Alarm program and telling
me it's not responding. Allowing applications to work properly for
the most part but would not allow one certain part of the application
to access the internet. For example, it would allow firefox to browse
the web but would not allow it to check for updates to the
application.
I am familiar with the setup of personal firewalls and rules creation
and I ensured that each application had full access and was allowed
internet access. I requested help and was directed to some "work
around" instructions to try and force the program to work.
A quick scan of the Zone Alarm Forums show others are equally as
frustrated.
It is surprising that a product of this maturity would be so full of
bugs and problems. It seems by version 6 you would have the basic
firewall functioning reliably.
I had resigned myself to sticking with the Windows XP build in port
blocker (otherwise knows as a firewall), however, thanks to this
newsgroup I stumbled upon a free firewall called COMANDO. There is a
lot of traffic in this newsgroup about this application a year ago but
it's quieted down recently so I decided to give it a try. So far it's
worked as I would expect a personal firewall work. I'll let you know
after I get more time with it.
Anyway, just wanted to give my impressions of my recent experience
with Zone Alarm Pro.
Re: Recent Experience with Zone Alarm (Junk)
am 16.09.2006 21:18:33 von quadaces
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 18:57:55 GMT, quadaces wrote:
>
>I had resigned myself to sticking with the Windows XP build in port
>blocker (otherwise knows as a firewall), however, thanks to this
>newsgroup I stumbled upon a free firewall called COMANDO. There is a
>lot of traffic in this newsgroup about this application a year ago but
>it's quieted down recently so I decided to give it a try. So far it's
>worked as I would expect a personal firewall work. I'll let you know
>after I get more time with it.
>
Just noticed the free firewall I found is COMODO not COMANDO.
Re: Recent Experience with Zone Alarm (Junk)
am 17.09.2006 06:31:34 von GYT
I'm still using Zone Alarm version 2.6.362. I have tried newer versions and
they all seem to have problems. Before someone jumps on here and starts
telling me that it won't thwart this or that, be advisd that this is just
the software part of my firewall. At any rate, it is the version of ZA that
I'm using. Newer is not always better. For example... Norton/Symantec used
to have good virus software... Anyway... I feel your pain...
Re: Recent Experience with Zone Alarm (Junk)
am 17.09.2006 07:14:24 von GYT
I went back and read my post again and I sounded like a know it all....
Sorry I didn't mean to come across that way... I'm actually only a few steps
above a newbie... well... maybe more than a few. ;)
"GYT" wrote in message
news:psidnbWC6LIDUpHYnZ2dnUVZ_r2dnZ2d@comcast.com...
> I'm still using Zone Alarm version 2.6.362. I have tried newer versions
and
> they all seem to have problems. Before someone jumps on here and starts
> telling me that it won't thwart this or that, be advisd that this is just
> the software part of my firewall. At any rate, it is the version of ZA
that
> I'm using. Newer is not always better. For example... Norton/Symantec used
> to have good virus software... Anyway... I feel your pain...
>
>
Re: Recent Experience with Zone Alarm (Junk)
am 17.09.2006 13:23:59 von Nevets Steprock
quadaces wrote:
> For as long as Zonelabs has been in development of Zone Alarm you
> would think they would have the bugs worked out by now. I used it
I have gone back to 4.5.594, small (1/2 the resources), better layout
on the client (remembers tabs, on log - not two, no AV stuff that
takes up place etc). Works OK so far (I have a small rememberance of
it hanging at boot earlier when I used it, but haven't seen it now).
--
Lars-Erik - http://home.chello.no/~larse/ - ICQ 7297605
Re: Recent Experience with Zone Alarm (Junk)
am 17.09.2006 13:24:25 von Nevets Steprock
"GYT" wrote:
> I'm still using Zone Alarm version 2.6.362. I have tried newer versions and
Is that for download somewhere?
--
Lars-Erik - http://home.chello.no/~larse/ - ICQ 7297605
Re: Recent Experience with Zone Alarm (Junk)
am 17.09.2006 16:16:44 von bassbag
In article , .@. says...
> "GYT" wrote:
>
> > I'm still using Zone Alarm version 2.6.362. I have tried newer versions and
>
> Is that for download somewhere?
>
http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=zalarm
me
Re: Recent Experience with Zone Alarm (Junk)
am 18.09.2006 00:27:30 von Nevets Steprock
bassbag wrote:
> > > I'm still using Zone Alarm version 2.6.362. I have tried newer versions and
> http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=zalarm
Do you have the release history for those versions too?
What has changed. What is missing from the different versions?
--
Lars-Erik - http://home.chello.no/~larse/ - ICQ 7297605
Re: Recent Experience with Zone Alarm (Junk)
am 18.09.2006 06:49:03 von charlie R
"Lars-Erik Østerud" <.@.> wrote in message
news:25d7f$450dcbd2$54d05007$5731@news.chello.no...
: bassbag wrote:
:
: > > > I'm still using Zone Alarm version 2.6.362. I have tried newer
versions and
: > http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=zalarm
:
: Do you have the release history for those versions too?
: What has changed. What is missing from the different versions?
: --
: Lars-Erik - http://home.chello.no/~larse/ - ICQ 7297605
Zone Alarm Pro Release History link.
http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/information/zap/releas eHistory.html#4.5.530.0
charlie R