Hi all,

I just updated my WinXP Pro SP3 computer with today's Microsoft Updates. When I booted back up, I lost all use of Internet browsers and POP3 Email. It didn't matter which browser (IE7, FF3, and Opera 9.2) or POP3 (Thunderbird and OE6). None of them worked. I uninstalled the new updates, one by one. After uninstalling KB951748, Internet returned. I re-installed all the updates except KB951748. Internet was still working. I then re-installed KB951748. The Internet stopped again. On a hunch, I shutdown ZoneAlarm Free 6.5.737. The Internet was suddenly working again. I ran ZA again. The Internet stopped again. I shutdown ZA again. The Internet worked again.

So, KB951748 doesn't like ZA Free 6.5.737 (and maybe newer versions too). I am not sure which to deactivate or uninstall, ZA or the MS update.

What do you mean he's the Doctor? Doctor Who?

What do you mean he's the Doctor? Doctor Who?

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Fix now available from ZA for XP users affected.

http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/pressReleases/2008/LossOfInternetAccessIssue.html

Yes, that is correct.

Though I seem to recall at times, you would select High & it would jump back to Medium. Perhaps that was with more recent versions (or another product altogether)?

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Also note that not all versions of ZA are affected.

I'm running 5.5.094 (free) & installed MS's updates without incident.
(My firewall settings are High, Medium respectively.)

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I think that was a limitation of older versions because I remember that too.

What do you mean he's the Doctor? Doctor Who?

it would seem reasonable for MS to test their patch against what is probably the most popular software firewall.

I get the feeling that the MS (DNS in general) security update is far more important then ZA working or ZA breaking (or any single application breaking). And I would not expect MS to make any changes on their end because of it (unless there are errors in what they did).

Now why ZA was not aware of these issues that have manifested ahead of time? Perhaps ZA was not considered important enough to be included with the group that put forth the DNS changes (in "secrecy") & so they didn't know?

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Thanks for the tip Steven. You're suggestion works great even with Firefox 3.0.

My ESS running in Vista was not impacted.

Shelly

Comodo?

On edit: I had a minor problem with Comodo on my laptop running XPSP2. I'm not running Comodo on my Vista box but I haven't had any problems either. I had a weird error but nothing seems to be affect....yet.....
Jazzgirl