hi, when i reformatted my computer, i did not uninstall zone alarm. as a result, when i had reinstalled windows 98, i tried to install zone alarm and it says i am missing vsinit.dll or a root certificate. i've looked around for answers and it seems this is happening because i didn't uninstall zone alarm before i reformatted. now, i don't know what to do, because i've run thorough search engines and can't seem to find the answer. can someone please help me??? thanks,

after which i forgot to mention, i even went to the getverisign website for a certificate,but that didn't work as well. then, i had read some people who said they had to reset their CMOS clock setting and they didn't get that vsinit.dll, missing root certificate message anymore. i did reset my CMOS clock back to 2004 and the message disappeared. however, when i tried to install zone alarm (free version) again, i get this message: 'could not load the DLL library C:windows\temp vsutil.dll (WSEDbgPrint). the specified procedure could not be found" followed by: "'could not load the DLL library C:windows\temp vsutil.dll (VS Set Protection) the specified procedure could not be found" can someone pls help me to get rid of these? i really need to install zone alarm and i can't even start it up now. any help is appreciated, thank you.

I don't know the answer but if you reformatted that would have cleared everything. The BIOS should be OK set at default. All I can suggest is either another download (maybe it was corrupted) or a different firewall such as Sygate's freebie. ZA probably have a forum. DerekW

hi derek, thanks for your reply. i had to reset my CMOS clock setting again to change the year and after that, i tried to install zone alarm again. now, it is able to load up and works perfectly well.

Glad to hear it worked out, strange things computers at times LOL. Thx for popping back. DerekW