Thread: Zone Alarm

I have noticed that zone alarm now have a vista version of their immensely popular freebie firewall. As Mickeysoft admit that their windows firewall is not "100%" I downloaded the freebie and installed it and it ran fine. But then I found I could not access anything via IE7 nor Firefox.

Strange, all permissions, have been set. After all I had used Zone alarm from windows 3.1.1 right through to XP with no hassle.

So I uninstalled it and relit Windows firewall and all my net access is back again - so what gives?

Anybody else found this?

Sorry I do not use any of these programs but does this site give any usefull info.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firewalls#ZoneAlarm

Have you tried another firewall to see if its the firewal or your computer setup thats the problem ? two to try >

Link > Comodo free Firewall

Link > PC Tools free Firewall

Originally Posted by Cyber

Have you tried another firewall to see if its the firewal or your computer setup thats the problem ? two to try >

Link > Comodo free Firewall

Link > PC Tools free Firewall

It would not solve anything. If IE and Firefox do not work, for whatever reason, in Vista, then its superfluous what other browser I download as I do not use anything but these two.

what other browser I download

thought we was talking firewalls and if the firewall is blocking the browsers they wont work.

Originally Posted by Cyber

thought we was talking firewalls and if the firewall is blocking the browsers they wont work.

We are, at least I am. My point is that Zone Alarm Vista is supposed to work in Vista, it does not.

Mmmmm then i think Zone Alarm need to change there advert > Zone Alarm Firewall System Requirements: Vista (32-bit)

I have a laptop now as well, but on XP. Zone Alarm works perfectly there.

I'm glad it does Red Devil, i use a hardware firewall NAT+SPI so i don't use a software one, but i am bothered that Zone Alarm say there firewall works for Vista if it does not, people trusting a well known name are going to have problems.

Hello,

I do agree that it is strange as Zone Alarm requires Vista!

Regards