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 Mar 30 2006, 12:01 PM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9  |
Ok, I'm have some, shall we say... "interesting", computer problems. I use ZoneAlarm as my firewall, it works well, I'm happy with it, yadda yadda. Anywho, yesterday I go to update it because a new build is out. Well, something screwed up in the midst of the upgrade and ZoneAlarm ran, but some parts of it weren't fully functional. No big deal, I think, I'll just install it, do a clean install, and it'll be all good.
I uninstalled it just through Add/Remove programs, tried installing it, no dice. It won't install, gives me some error msg regarding a missing dll. I tried looking into specifics on the dll, downloaded it, put it where it needed to be, and tried running the installation again. And my computer restarts! It boots back up, dll is gone, installation file is gone. I was a bit frustrated with it by that point, so I gave up for the day. Today, I went through the registry and got rid of all entries that referenced ZoneLabs, figuring that maybe something with that is screwing up the installation. Tried installing ZoneAlarm again, BAM! Computer restarts. Loads up again, installation file is gone. Try it again, same thing. Bah! Anybody got a clue as to why the fuck my computer would be restarting when I go to install this damn program? I downloaded the installer straight from ZoneLab's website, so I know it shouldn't have a virus or anything, but I've never seen something like this happen before. -------------------- |
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Mar 30 2006, 12:07 PM
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 DEATH TO ....something? Group: Members Posts: 5,618 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Parker, CO Member No.: 55 |
Honestly, I would buy a $100 used computer from somone and put Linux of FreeBSD on it, and not even screw around with all that personal firewall crap. That stuff is WAY more trouble than it's worth if you asked me. You could seriously buy a 6 year old computer and put Linux on it, and have that act as your firewall and it would be ten times better than Zonealarm .... combine that with Snort and make up some perl scripts that parse the snort data into HTML (if you are feelin spunky anyways) and you've basically got something that's even better than a Checkpoint firewall, for $100.
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Spectatrix Zonealarm Mar 30 2006, 12:01 PM
Spectatrix I'm not gonna buy another computer just to use... Mar 30 2006, 12:09 PM Seussninja Zonealarm is overkill. Its way too intrusive. Mar 30 2006, 12:16 PM Spectatrix I don't think it's overkill. I also don... Mar 30 2006, 12:19 PM FORSAKENR320 QUOTE (Spectatrix @ Mar 30 2006, 12:19 PM)I d... Mar 30 2006, 12:20 PM Dogmeat HAHAHAH Mar 30 2006, 12:40 PM zetec huh Mar 30 2006, 12:56 PM Spectatrix I think I really fucked up my computer this time. ... Mar 30 2006, 01:13 PM zetec lesson: don't use zonealarm. Mar 30 2006, 01:14 PM Dogmeat You're fucked. Might as well start re-installi... Mar 30 2006, 01:14 PM Spectatrix QUOTE (Dogmeat @ Mar 30 2006, 12:14 PM)You... Mar 30 2006, 01:16 PM zetec actually, have you installed any StarForce-protect... Mar 30 2006, 01:18 PM Dogmeat QUOTE (Spectatrix @ Mar 30 2006, 02:16 PM)...... Mar 30 2006, 01:21 PM Spectatrix QUOTE (Dogmeat @ Mar 30 2006, 12:21 PM)Unless... Mar 30 2006, 01:25 PM Spectatrix I think I have things fixed.
The moral of this st... Mar 30 2006, 02:15 PM zetec and dance, dance, dance Mar 30 2006, 02:18 PM impala454 a reformat & clean install every now and then ... Mar 30 2006, 02:26 PM
Spectatrix QUOTE (impala454 @ Mar 30 2006, 01:26 PM)a re... Mar 30 2006, 02:38 PM |
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