Can"t install basic ZA 7.1

Firstly let me say that I really don't have a dire need for a firewall
since I'm behind a router and Vista's firewall provides adequate
protection. However I've always liked Zone Alarm's "network activity"
LED displaying in the system tray. I tried to install the newly
released free 32 bit version for Vista without success. My Toshiba
laptop meets all of the minimal requirements and with 2GB of RAM it's
a smooth running machine. ZA seemed to install correctly and prompted
me to reboot, but when I did ZA would never quite load and my CPU
would show me utilizing 100% of my resources. Of course with that type
of usage the laptop was virtually dead, I couldn't even open control
panel. I'd reboot and get the same results. This isn't something I
wanted to play around with and spend too much time troubleshooting. I
suspect that this is a security problem even though I was using an
Admin account. Could even have been Windows Firewall since I was never
able to shut it down because at 100%........ Sure I could have
disabled it from Safe-Mode but by then I was developing the "my God,
what have I done" mind set. I know my way around computers and since
this was nothing urgent....................

The only way I could recover was to boot into safe-mode and uninstall
ZA. I think I'll wait awhile before trying ZA again on a Vista
machine. Anyone know of any proven FREE firewalls for Vista.

Re: Can"t install basic ZA 7.1

> The only way I could recover was to boot into safe-mode and uninstall
> ZA. I think I'll wait awhile before trying ZA again on a Vista
> machine. Anyone know of any proven FREE firewalls for Vista.

Just use the Vista FW and if you want something that monitors connections
then use Currport free and enable Vista FW's logging.

http://www.bestvistadownloads.com/

Re: Can"t install basic ZA 7.1

>
> Just use the Vista FW and if you want something that monitors connections
> then use Currport free and enable Vista FW's logging.
>
> http://www.bestvistadownloads.com/

Thanks, never heard of that one. I'll look into it.

Re: Can"t install basic ZA 7.1

wrote...

> Firstly let me say that I really don't have a dire need for a firewall
> since I'm behind a router and Vista's firewall provides adequate
> protection. However I've always liked Zone Alarm's "network activity"
> LED displaying in the system tray. I tried to install the newly
> released free 32 bit version for Vista without success. My Toshiba
> laptop meets all of the minimal requirements and with 2GB of RAM it's
> a smooth running machine. ZA seemed to install correctly and prompted
> me to reboot, but when I did ZA would never quite load and my CPU
> would show me utilizing 100% of my resources. Of course with that type
> of usage the laptop was virtually dead, I couldn't even open control
> panel. I'd reboot and get the same results. This isn't something I
> wanted to play around with and spend too much time troubleshooting. I
> suspect that this is a security problem even though I was using an
> Admin account. Could even have been Windows Firewall since I was never
> able to shut it down because at 100%........ Sure I could have
> disabled it from Safe-Mode but by then I was developing the "my God,
> what have I done" mind set. I know my way around computers and since
> this was nothing urgent....................
>
> The only way I could recover was to boot into safe-mode and uninstall
> ZA. I think I'll wait awhile before trying ZA again on a Vista
> machine. Anyone know of any proven FREE firewalls for Vista.

I'm not sure where you downloaded ZA 7.1 but it wasn't from the
manufacturer's site since the most current version of ZA (Free) is
7.0.337.000. If obtained elsewhere, I'd worry that you're trying to install
hacked software.

Craig