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Zone Alarm Pro Not Vista Ready
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Original Message
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Name: Hornman02
Date: February 16, 2007 at 09:43:47 Pacific
Subject: Zone Alarm Pro Not Vista ReadyOS: Windows XP SP2CPU/Ram: Athlon 2.1/1 GigModel/Manufacturer: Home |
Comment: Zone Alarm has known for some time that Microsoft was getting ready to come out with its next generation operating system. They have been working on it for five years. Why hasn't Zone Alarm been as diligent by developing Zone Alarm Pro Firewall to work with this new operating system. I think it is absolutely horrible that Zone Alarm has not readied its product to work with this new systme. Yes, I have 144 days left on my Zone Alarm Pro for free upgrades but what if Zone Alarm takes longer than that in order to come up with a Vista ready product. It looks like the Zone Alarm Pro users are the ones who will be paying the price for Zone Alarms lack of response toward developing a compatible product. Each day we are not able to use the product is one day less we will have for the "free" upgrade. I think the Zone Alarm should "freeze" the number of "free" upgrade days left until such a time as there is a Vista ready product.
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Response Number 2
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Name: Alex2002
Date: February 16, 2007 at 10:00:30 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Well it's a good rant, IMO. I use ZoneAlarm on my XP, and currently my Vista installaition has no firewall! I only ever use ZoneAlarm as it is so good at what it does and very easy to use, and I'm also annoyed that there is no Vista version. Anyone have any news on a possible release time?
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Response Number 3
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Name: XpUser
Date: February 16, 2007 at 10:13:30 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)...currently my Vista installaition has no firewall! Vista has its own firewall turned on - for inboard & outboard (the latter user unfriendly unfortunately) i_XpUser
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Response Number 4
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Name: Alex2002
Date: February 16, 2007 at 10:16:41 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I know that but it's not very imposing (though in some ways that's a good thing) but I always feel much better having ZoneAlarm running than the Windows Firewall, especially as I read it's identical to the XP SP2 version.
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Response Number 6
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Name: XpUser
Date: February 16, 2007 at 10:31:14 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)That seems irresistible. I read it's identical to the XP SP2 version Sorry to disagree. You read it wrong. i_XpUser
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Response Number 10
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Name: Cobra_R
Date: February 16, 2007 at 21:44:33 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I didn't have a problem installing Zone Alarm Pro on Vista x64. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz 2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200 Nvidia 7900GT SATA II 2x 300gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0+1 Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI
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Response Number 11
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Name: Alex2002
Date: February 17, 2007 at 03:09:38 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Does it actually work though, Cobra_R? It could just be running but not actually doing its job. Mind you, I'm running x86 anyway.
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Response Number 12
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Name: Cobra_R
Date: February 17, 2007 at 16:12:40 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Yeah it worked fine I tested all my programs on Vista and they work fine except for AVG 7.5 free edition but that's due to the free edition not being 64bit compatible. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz 2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200 Nvidia 7900GT SATA II 2x 300gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0+1 Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI
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Response Number 14
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Name: asslan
Date: February 18, 2007 at 07:34:59 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)There are many Devices that does not work on the f---ing VISTA. it is bad bad bad.... I say do not install vista untill microsoft resolve the drivers problem for all devices speciall USB devices like video and scanners devices. It is Shame that new devices do not have drivers for VISTA.
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Response Number 15
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Name: Alex2002
Date: February 18, 2007 at 08:26:00 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Hold on, what version of Zone Alarm Free Edition (which I use) is the latest? Because I'm on 6.5.737.000, and I assumed this is the latest because whenever I click "Check for updates" nothing comes up, and it hasn't notified me automatically of any updates either. But just now I went to the Zone Alarm site, and it is down. However, they have links to their products to buy, including a link to download Zone Alarm Free Edition, which is: http://dl2.zonelabs.com/bin/free/10... So Version 7 by the looks of things. I wonder if this is Vista ready?
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