The security center recognized my eTrust Armor which includes Zone Alarm as the firewall portion.
Unless you are running an Intel Prescott CPU I'm with MOU (Ross) about installing it. The only application that really breaks (and I've got most of them on the list that would be of concern to members of this ist) is Norton Anti Virus 2003. 2004 is fine but if you have 2003 you must run Live Update before you update to SP 2 or it will break and Symantec, last I heard, had chosen not to make the patch available as a separate download outside of Live Update. Live update is the part of Norton 2003 that breaks. Other than that, it is just a matter of configuring the Firewall and IE to let the applications you want to run work. Personally I still prefer Zone Alarm to the improved Windows Firewall because of the more granular ability to choose exactly what program is allowed access were so I disabled the Windows Firewall. (Running multiple firewalls and even multiple AV programs can cause all sorts of problems.) I ran several beta builds and both release candidates before SP 2 went Gold. I don't use Norton AV (or any Symantec program for that matter) and the only problem I had was with the latest version of Zone Alarm. Many people not running SP 2 have lots of problems with the latest version of Zone Alarm so rolling back to a less problem prone version was the better option there anyway. Before I switched from an Acer c300 tablet to a Toshiba m205 tablet I used IE 6 as my primary browser and only opened Firefox, Mozilla, Opera for checking. I'd still prefer to do that since 75-85% of my visitors run it but the Toshiba has a screen resolution of 1400x1050 on a 12.1" screen and with so many sites being in 10-11px fonts I simply can't read them and because the font sizes are fixed in px even the large fonts setting I have on the Toshiba doesn't help. So I use Foxfire for all of those sorts of sites. Microsoft announced a month or two ago that they were resuming work on IE in areas other than just security so hopefully we'll see an update to fix some of its failings as a browser sometime in the relatively near future as well. Cheryl D. Wise Certified Professional Web Developer MS-MVP-FrontPage www.wiserways.com mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 713.353.0139 Office -----Original Message----- From: Trusz, Andrew ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Since MOU did the "install SP2", I'll do the "don't install SP2, at least not yet". As with all SPs this one breaks things. MS even has a list of known applications which break with SP2. MS has a list of the 50 apps it knows SP2 kills on its site. Look at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842242 In addition, the Security Center doesn't recognize fire walls which are not MS firewalls. So many of your "virii" maybe nothing more than MS objecting to ZA. The MS firewall does in fact often see other firewalls as a virus. Wait for ZA and others to get their workarounds ready. Although the best advice would be much simpler: don't use IE6. That's advice given by an increasing group of people. It's an insecure, antiquated browser. Dump it. Yes, we all have to keep it locally to view pages so we can correct for IE6 failings but don't use it for surfing. Get Opera, Firefox, Mozilla, Konquerer, whatever, just not IE6. ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
