Re: Zone Alarm causes lock-up at Shutdown in Win ME

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Date: 06/30/02


Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 18:49:57 GMT


"Bill Robins" <wmrobins2@hotmail.net> wrote in message
news:aQHT8.20396$vr5.2202@nwrddc01.gnilink.net...
| I agree that ME is not an answer, but in this case it's not the problem
| either. It's just another MS OS. Zone Alarm has had this problem
reported
| in this news group on 98, 98se, 2000, and XP. (Hell, I'VE seen it some
(not
| all) 98se, ME, and 2000, XP boxes. MS is not going to change their OSs
to
| be compatible with ZA, so, unless you're going to switch to, Unix,
Linix,
| BeOS, or a Mac, give up on ZA and try other free firewalls. (You'd
have to
| find another firewall anyway. ZA is only for Windoze.)
|
| In short, ZA works on some computer and does not work on others.
|

Guess I've been lucky to avoid this. I did have an earlier version of ZA.
But quickly upgraded to 3.0, running on 2000 Pro.
Not had this problem (yet?).

|
| "Rufio" <davecawdell@cox.net> wrote in message
| news:2mQS8.50980$Ok1.3972030@news2.west.cox.net...
| > I'm not saying this to be offensive, but......
| >
| > Rule # 1a - whatever the problem is, ME is NOT the answer.
| > Rule # 1b - any problem on a machine running ME - ME is the problem .
| >
| > Seriously though, I can't think of anything good to say about ME. It
has
| > been at the root of a great many problems. I prefer to either stay
with
| > 98, or use 200 Pro on most of my HD's (I have a number of HD's & use
a
| > slide mount to swap then in/out. I'm currently running 2000 Pro & ZA
Pro
| > with almost no problems, except - when the ad blocker is activated, &
| > blocks pop up/pop under ads, Expedia "Sign on Sign Up Sign out" page
| > won't load. The same problem occurs with other Expedia pages. I told
| > Expedia I was committed to blocking ads, and their response was -
tough.
| > In typical MS form, they don't care if they lose a customer who
spends
| > about $2500 a year through their site. Anyone got any opions on
| > Travelocity?
| >
| > Have you tried, shut down ZA & then shutdown the machine, to achieve
a
| > successful shutdown. Then reboot to get a clean reboot - or after a
| > successful boot - shut down ZA & then do a restart, to see if was a
| > problem with the way it ran after the boot after an unsuccessful
| > shutdown?
| >
| >
| >
| > "DoctorJ" <jdsmd@bellatlantic.net> wrote in message
| > news:3d1a885d.486462@128.242.172.250...
| > | If Zone Alarm ver 2.6.362 is loaded at startup, then Windows ME
hangs
| > | at shutdown, or restarts and goes into scan disk because of
improper
| > | shutdown. Is there a fix for this? will this be fixed if I buy ZA
Pro?
| > | Thanks
| > | DoctorJ
| > |
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