Zone Alarm Woes -- a warning and question
(W2K/SP4, ZA 4.0.123.012)
Same reaction on two machines...
When running zone alarm, regardless of the zone that the target machine is in, when I attempt a TCP/IP intensive activity (Brutus, nmap, mulitple telnets, etc.) the system will become unresponsive. The mouse works and MAY be able to close some open windows, usually not. Task managler will activate (in the bottom tray -- but not as a window/GUI) and Start/shutdown just laughs at me (won't restart or shutdown). ZA will still be responsive, but trying to shut it down at this point results in a message about true-vector waiting to shutdown... then the screen stops refreshing...
Yes, all these tasks work fine without ZA running. ZA is fine with simple web browsing, or ftp sessions. But don't over-tax that ZA true-vector! My guess is chokes when too much traffic is tossed at it.
The only thing to do at this point is a hard boot.
Ideas? Similar things happen to you?
It MUST be a problem with ZA, because I remember in all my M$ training that the Windows kernel would NEVER allow such a thing to happen...
Myk
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Is it my imagination, or is there a direct correlation to how much you spend on software, and the likelihood of it being crap?