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Forking Microsoft!!

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TheDarkReaver

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Mar 20, 2006
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#1
So who else had their internet knocked off by microsoft's latest xp update?

Being a zonealarm user it happened to me and i've spent all morning trying to work out what the hell happened. It was only a few minutes ago that I thought to shutdown my beloved firewall program (just incase) and low and behold the internet is back. Had a quick google and it turns out that it was the micrsoft update causing problems with zonealarm.

Needless to say i'm a little peeved about the whole affair :mad:
 
#10
argh! so i installed a new firewall (comodo) and the latest avg (8.0, i hadn't updated in a while) and my internet got knocked out again! i uninstalled both programs and my internet is still out. i don't understand ;_; and it's so frustrating. i even uninstalled the latest update and nothing! argh!
 
#14
Spikeh said:
It's not something you want to shout about. All someone needs to do is get your IP and bang, they're in... doesn't matter if you don't have any services running on your PC, there are ways...
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not to worried about that right now... I'm at work and only post on here at work.. so you can try to get into my works comp but they have it locked up tighter than.... stuff.
 
#15
Jonyak said:
not to worried about that right now... I'm at work and only post on here at work.. so you can try to get into my works comp but they have it locked up tighter than.... stuff.
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Fair play to them I say.

If you don't use the Internet at home, you can still get virii from CDs and DVDs etc.

But, each to their own. I can't afford to lose any data on my home PCs, so I'm firewalled and backed up to hell.
 
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TheDarkReaver said:
So who else had their internet knocked off by microsoft's latest xp update?

Being a zonealarm user it happened to me and i've spent all morning trying to work out what the hell happened. It was only a few minutes ago that I thought to shutdown my beloved firewall program (just incase) and low and behold the internet is back. Had a quick google and it turns out that it was the micrsoft update causing problems with zonealarm.

Needless to say i'm a little peeved about the whole affair :mad:
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Oh my... Microsoft screwing up something with one of their updates?! Unthinkable! :rolleyes:

As an IT tech, I've avoided adding certain updates to my company's computers simply because they cause more problems than they fix.

Welcome to the world of Microsoft. :D
 
#18
I've used ZoneAlarm forever. I've never had a problem with it.

A few weeks ago I installed SP3 (and a few random updates that came afterward). It configured automatically to ZoneAlarm. It worked perfectly.

I've been really lucky I guess. I've never had a real issue with MS, other than their ridiculous prices! My current system is a fully up-to-date XP SP3 box that runs incredibly well. :)
 
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TheDarkReaver said:
So who else had their internet knocked off by microsoft's latest xp update?

Being a zonealarm user it happened to me and i've spent all morning trying to work out what the hell happened. It was only a few minutes ago that I thought to shutdown my beloved firewall program (just incase) and low and behold the internet is back. Had a quick google and it turns out that it was the micrsoft update causing problems with zonealarm.

Needless to say i'm a little peeved about the whole affair :mad:
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Thank you so much for posting this. My other computer's internet just got up and left recently. I thought it was a virus! I'll try shutting off zone alarm for a bit, and see how it goes.
 

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