The Microsoft firewall is 'smart' enough to see that you have ZA running and should let you turn it off. I have a feeling that the reason your settings were lost is that it doesn't sound like you had a clean reboot while you were messing with it. Also, somewhere (it might be in the ZA prompts) I think it says that you shouldn't run them both at the same time.
At 05:49 PM 3/9/2005, you wrote: >At 04:28 PM 3/9/2005, Scott Bershing wrote: >>Dave, >>This isn't true. I've got Zone Alarm running on two different XP machines. >>I would recommend you leave ZA off until you are done with everything else. >>Then, reinstall it. The only trick is that you can only have one or the >>other running. I've been running ZA on XP for a while, and have since >>upgraded to XPr2 with no issues at all. > >Scott (and Don, who seconded Scott's info), >Thanks for the tip. I'll try once I've got the machine well set up. (Now that >I know how to UN-do it if it gets in trouble again, I won't be afraid.) > >But I have to ask, what did you do with Microsoft's own firewall? Through the >control panel I can get to [Windows Firewall > General] where there's an >on-off checkbox. But I used that to check it OFF. When the machine came back >after reboot followed by safe mode, it was back on. I have a feeling that both >XPFW and ZA on is a very bad thing, and you just concurred. Is there some way >of totally disabling it, or does it usually stay OFF when you reboot? (If so, >why did mine come back ON?) > >Thanks, >DaveT > > >-- >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.1 - Release Date: 3/9/2005 >
