Results tagged “firewall” from Birmingham Mail - Technobabble

The latest windows XP update has been discovered to cause thousands of users to be cut off from the internet.

This is because it somehow causes a conflict with the third party firewall ZoneAlarm.

I myself carried out the update last night, and haven't since logged on - so when I get home tonight who knows if I'll be able to go online?

Anyway there is a solution posted by ZoneAlarm on their website so here you go!

It has to be said that it is not unreasonable to assume Microsoft might check their new security patch with one of the most widely used pieces of software on the web.

Edit: Yep it didn't work. I had to turn the slider down to 'medium' on the level of security to be allowed onto the internet so I could tackle it.

Incredible really - and how many people must have been left completely flummoxed by this? And how many who are non computer literate spent hours on the phone getting through to their internet provider trying to solve it?

Microsoft deserve a rocket for this one.