-Don
Scott Bershing wrote:
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.
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>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.)
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>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?)
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>Thanks,
>DaveT
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