Maxy wrote:
> I am having major problems with upgrading Zonealarm and am about to
> move to alternate firewall - any suggestions for a suitable alternative
> would ne much appreciated.
>
> I upgraded from Zonealarm 2.6.362.0 to 6.1.737.0 and got the error
> message System Error: Please reboot
>
> I removed and re-installed ZA about five times before Googling for an
> answer and then visiting Zonealarms site when none of the suggestions
> worked. After a lot of searching on the ZA site I finally found
> reference to the above error message along with the suggestion that I
> do a clean install by following the instructions at website address:
> If you have a Cisco VPN client installed, you must first uninstall the
> VPN client, then follow the instructions below
If you don't have a VPN connection from home to like work using the
Cisco VPN client software that you installed on the machine, then it's a
moot point.
>
> This page appears to be a copy of a now deleted ZA page. Well, I
> followed the instructions to the letter and still no joy (did this 6
> times!).
> The fact that ZA have deleted the page probably means it wasn't a fix
> anyway. Still, I can't find anything else regarding how to fix this
> problem at the ZA site - but plenty of people asking for a solution!
>
> So, as a last ditch attempt at getting an answer, can anyone solve this
> for me. And failing that, what is a good firewall to switch to.
Get rid of ZA if it's giving you that much trouble.
And,
> what am I risking by not having a firewall - it has been disabled for 2
> weeks now.
That depends on what flavor of the MS O/S you're using and do you know
how to shutdown services/applications that would have ports opened that
those services/applications were listening on that would lead to a
compromise of the machine if they were not shutdown closing the ports.
Most home user's are not aware of this or know how to protect the MS O/S
without a FW. So, you may have some risks and maybe you have already
been compromised and don't know it.
Duane :)
