Re: free(?) personal firewall

From: rjdriver (rjdrivers_at_cox.net)
Date: 04/22/05 

Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 06:41:38 -0400

"andy smart" <anonymus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:d4aafc$e83$2@newsfeed.th.ifl.net...
> Karl Levinson, mvp wrote:
>> I agree. There must be a way to configure zone alarm to let it work.
>> You
>> may have accidentally clicked No when it tried to connect? www.kerio.com
>> and www.sygate.com are two other good free firewalls.
>>
>>
>> "Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@nospam-comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:OmAaM3pRFHA.3336@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>
>>>Sygate is a pretty good personal firewall. I hate to see you drop ZA
>>
>> however
>>
>>>if it works well for you. I would think that there might be some sort of
>>>work around. Check you application/program list in ZA to see if Sophos
>>>update is listed and maybe blocked. It may help to remove all your
>>>applications/programs from the list and have it go into learning mode
>>
>> again
>>
>>>to see if you can get it to work. --- Steve
>>>
>>>
>>>"andy smart" <anonymus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>>news:d48hku$frt$1@newsfeed.th.ifl.net...
>>>
>>>>I've been using free Zone Alarm for a while and like it - and also
>>>>Sophos AV which I want to keep. However there is an issue with Sophos 5
>>>>in that Zone Alarm won't let it connect to auto-update and so I have to
>>>>drop the firewall for the brief time I need to run updates.
>>>>
>>>>Any recommendations for a firewall which will provide as much (if not
>>>>more) protection as ZA, but which will allow Sophos traffic?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
> Tragically not! The ZA discussion fora have a few threads on this one
> and how folks can't get it to work, and I have an email from Sophos
> support which sayeth:
>
> "Unfortunately there is a known issue with Windows 2000 and ZoneAlarm.
> Running ZoneAlarm 5.5 on a Windows 2000 machine blocks AutoUpdate from
> downloading updates from the website. If you use Windows XP with the
> same version of ZoneAlarm then it works fine. We are not aware of any
> possible workarounds. You could try to use an older release of ZoneAlarm
> or use a different personal firewall."
>
> So there we are :-(

So you have tried older releases of Zone Alarm with no success, also?

If not, go here: http://www.oldversion.com/

Bob

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