Zone Alarm and WinXP

[bassoprofundo]

OK. Question for you folks. I've got a Win2k pro workstation serving as my ICS router (until I get my other router returned on RMA), and I've got 1 XP, 1 98se, and 1 WinME workstation connected to it through a switch. Here's the deal-- All of the workstations connect ok when I have ZoneAlarm Pro shut off, but when it's enabled, the 98se and ME workstations go through it fine, but the XP workstation will not. Prior to today, it was Win2k, and it worked fine that way. Has anybody else experienced similar probs? Should I try BlackICE? I should get my hardware firewall back in the next week or so, making this all a moot point, but I wonder what it is about ZoneAlarm Pro that's preventing XP from going through it. I do have the internal network set up as a local zone, and I have the local zone security set to low to allow just about anything to come through the local NIC. Any ideas? Thanks.

 

[Jonathan93]

I've heard about ZoneAlarm making it impossible to surf the Internet on many occasions.... With or without the firewall..... Who knows why it causes it. I'm just wondering if it does the same thing when you get your Router back.

 

[bassoprofundo]

I had the ME machine dual-booted to XP for a while on the router before it went out, and it was ok. It just seems to be something screwy with ZoneAlarm. All the settings look good though, and I'm sure if I emailed them, they'd tell me they don't support XP since "it hasn't been released."🙂

 

[Pyxis]

Don't know if this pertains to you but there are alot of problems with TrueVector service starting up when WinXP starts up. When this happens you can't connect at all to the internet.

The way I "fix" this is by logging out and logging in again. It then starts up fine. It's not much of a problem for me though because I don't reboot for a couple of weeks anyway.

Hope this helps🙂