Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Computer Learning -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raptech who wrote (41602)	6/7/2004 12:46:16 PM
From: Doug Coughlan	Respond to of 110655

Here is Fred Langa's homepage: langa.com You can view the current issue from which this excerpt is taken or research back issues. Doug This is what some readers of Fred Langa's newsletter said were some issues: 2) ZA5 Reactions From Readers---- and from ZoneLabs! Several issues ago, I reported that I and others were having troubles with the new Zone Alarm 5; I suggested you wait before upgrading, so ZA could get the bugs out. Many of you then wrote in to share your experiences, pro and con: Fred, The new ZoneAlarm works great on my computer. I use most of the same software you have, but with one exception. I do not use Norton antivirus. I use NOD 32. It is very simple to disable the AV feature. just check disable. I stopped using Norton when: I had System works (includes AV) and Antispam on my system and a virus infected my computer( I updated them daily). I downloaded Nod 32 and have had no further problems. eliminating the Norton programs really freed up a lot of resources. And is probably why Zone Alarm works flawlessly on my computer. The AV option does not work with NOD32 but I have not disabled it as it causes no problems. Thanks, Roger Fred, have a little problem also with new version 5.0 from ZoneLabs. Here is some information from their web site that may help. zonelabs.com Question 1 deals with McAffee problems. Also further down the page it gives information as to how to get the previous edition till they iron out the problems with the new edition. ---Dieter. Hello Fred, I'm writing this email to let you know that after installing zonealarm 5 (the newest version) my high speed cable internet was limited to 2.6 Mbits instead of 4.5 Mbits. After removing the new version and going back to the 4.X one the speed went back to normal! You can add me to the list of unhappy users of the new zonealarm which IS becoming more complex and less useful! Thanks, [anonymous] In addition to the problems that you outlined in yesterday's LangaList, I have had an other one: I'm not able to use IIS locally. This makes development very difficult since Visual Studio is not able to connect to a site, either. There are numerous complaints about this on the ZoneLabs? forums, too. I blogged this issue at: tinyurl.com . ---Rich Fred, I installed version 5 of ZA a couple of weeks ago as an update and it has worked perfectly, to my knowledge, ever since. I am using their MailSafe as well as Norton System Works 2003 on an XP system. This has been one of the easiest upgrades of ZA ever for me as they usually cause me some kind of problem. I think it was something about True Vector last time. I wonder what the difference is? ---Joe Hahn Fred: Your newsletter is often a lifesaver. The new ZA version unfortunately brought my computer ( Win XP Pro) to a shuddering halt ? IE 6.1 froze when accessing page links; boot was reduced to a crawl; and CHKDSK, although scheduled did not run. Reinstalled Ver. 4.5 and all was well again. Regards, Michael Hi Fred, I installed this latest ZoneAlarm Pro security update the other day and didn't think much about it. I play an older multiplayer game online; Quake II. Quake II has a built-in graphical line condition display that shows ping spikes/lost packets. I found after installing ZoneAlarm's update that I was getting all kinds of ping spikes and lost packets while playing QII online, when normally I have an excellent connection. The game connection was perfect after shutting down ZA Pro. I've never had to shut off ZA to play the game before; my multiplayer conditions were never affected by ZA. ZA Pro's security update includes a couple of new features, one of which is Antivirus monitoring. That's turned on by default. I turned it off and tried the game again with ZA Pro running. No good.Turned off ZA Pro and the game was fine again. Rebooted and experimented as above with no changes. ZA Pro was hampering my multiplayer gaming making it unplayable (several times when framerates would just stop momentarily). So, looks like I'm going to have to shut the protection off before playing the game now, which is unfortunate. ---Rick Buser Hi Fred, I too have used Zone Alarm Pro for quite some time, unfortunately, I downloaded the latest version, version 5. It would not let me browse and would hang up my computer and would not let me end the program, so I was force to turn the power off. I contacted my ISP (AOL) and they had me do all kind of tweaks to AOL and the browser to no avail. Finally, I uninstalled version 5 and reinstalled version 4, now everything is back to normal. ---Sam Fred, I too ended up with ZA V5 issues. NAV2003 stopped scanning my emails altogether. Following Markeau's advice I uninstalled ZA. Now NAV works like it used to. ---Scott Ellison Hi Fred--- I've installed it on 3 different WinXP Pro and Home systems, all running NAV 2004 with zero problems. I've not seen any slowdowns or had any trouble with Eudora since the upgrade. Best regards, Mark