Re: ZoneAlarm not blocking AVG auto update

on 8/10/2006 1:49 PM B. Nice said the following:
On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:42:00 -0700, John Hyde <EJhyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

on 8/9/2006 2:03 PM Al Smith said the following:
The ZoneAlarm people have always given assurances that even though the icon for ZoneAlarm take a while to show up on the monitor, the firewall itself is running and working immediately to block any Internet traffic to or from your computer.

Well, bullshit. I recently installed AVG. I'm running ZoneAlarm Free 6.1.737. AVG can phone home from my computer at boot-up, and download its anti-virus update *before* ZoneAlarm starts.

There's no doubt about this. I do not have any permissions in ZoneAlarm to allow AVG access, and no warning popped up in ZoneAlarm telling me that AVG wanted to access the Internet.

I disabled the AVG update service, so AVG won't be automatically connecting anymore, but if AVG can do it, so can any other program. Which makes ZoneAlarm more or less worthless.
Which raises the question, can't you control this by changing the load order?

Why should he? - ZoneLabs claim all their products provide boot-time
protection. I qoute:

<SNIP>
So of course it should work, or otherwise we will just start to
believe they are lying.

Ok, I agree. They say that their product loads first and it doesn't.

But suppose someone wants to keep zonealarm; perhaps they like the animated icon ;-) Or perhaps their version of ZA loads first and they want their AV to load first instead . . .

I still wonder if there is a way to manually control load order. Or are you just stuck with whatever windows decides to do?
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