PGP just hosed Windows XP, could use some advice!

[mcveigh]

Yesterday I installed PGP 7.03 on a windows XP pro workstation here at work. after rebooting the network connection was completely screwed up. it showed the NIC as working properly but showed an error when I wanted thbe IP address.

I thought it was the user because he always installs crap all over his PC. the system became so unstable I hade to reformat the hard drive and reinstall windows. the whole OS seemed to be running in slow motion, yet resources were fine.

today i installed PGP on an almost identical workstation. and it's starting to happen again. I am at a complete loss here. PGP works fine on my XP laptop. I'm wondering if having them on a domain vs. a workgroup could affect it.

ANy input would be much appreciated

 

[Nothinman]

DId you install PGPDisk?

 

[mcveigh]

I think so, I just chose the default install pretty much.

I went to uninstall it a few minutes ago, while uninstalling it the computer suddenly rebooted. not just down just lost all power and rebooted spontaneously. I'm trying system restore now.:frown:

 

[Nothinman]

I know PGPDisk is known not to work with XP, although I don't think it should cause the problems you're having.

 

[smp]

yeah .. and PGPnet

if it secures your network card .. that could be the reason you are losing net access. I had this happen to me on a win2k box.

 

[mcveigh]

using windows system recover I was able to set it back a few days to when I had did a clean install (bad motherboard). I installed norton antivirus and it won't startup correctly, auto protect isn't enabled, I can't even get into norton to change settings. actuallt this is a very virus like description, i wonder if I got infected somehow?

 

[manly]

In the latest PGP 7.11 Corporate Desktop, PGPdisk works on WXP but is unsupported.

PGPnet still doesn't work, and should not be installed.

PGP 7.5 officially works on WXP, but it will never be released as the PGP division was shut down.

 

[MGMorden]

I had PGPnet hose my dialup connection when I installed it (well, the whole PGP suite, freeware version though so no PGPdisk) on Windows XP. After I reinstalled it I unchecked the PGPnet option when installing and all seems well.

I actually hadn't heard of the PGP division being shut down. That's really sade as I really like the program, though admittedly I only use the freeware version b/c AFAIK the only plus that Corporate offers is PGPdisk, and having played around with BestCrypt some it seems like it works virtually flawlessy. I'd rather go with it if I was buying, knowing it works and all. I tried to talk my boss into buying a darn liscense for the thing. some lady who handles payroll wanted her data secure. while they were talking about keeping it on a zip disk and locking the disk in a file cabinent I though it would be a much better solution to create an encrypted volume on the network drive. The data would be secure, the volume would be backed up nightly to a tape backup (unlike a zip disk that could die at any time), but they didn't seem to like it. Oh well. Enough ranting about them not taking my suggestions seriously . . .