ZoneAlarm Free Firewall 9.2 Install Question

Hi Everyone,

Win XP SP3 is my OS.

Running an older 8.x version of ZA Free, but it's doing the "i'm not playing well w/AGV9 Free" thing. AVG9 has confirmed my issue.

Two questions, I guess ...

Shoud I uninstall the old 8.x ZA b4 installing new 9.2? Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't seem to find anything on the ZA site???

And before I do this, has anyone else upgraded to ZA 9.2? Any major headaches or pitfalls to avoid? Any XP users having trouble updating to it?

Thanks,
dood1emom

 

Q1, U will have to uninstall it and restart ur comp to complete the uninstallation before any new installs.

Q2, I'm with you on this one, I've not found a free firewall I'm happy with yet. Ill be watchin this thread.

 

Nice, didn't know this was also available for XP.

I'm also a user of MSE.

Avast is nice also.

 

Hey theefool, I aint sure about win 7 MSE but in XP the firewall only blocks incoming. Be careful man.

 

Win7 firewall is both ways, if you use the advanced firewall.

 

Thanks - willing to change, but free is good w/an unemployed spouse & kid is college!

Learned to not surf as admin - got hit with nasty virus last fall that I'm pretty sure came in thru a hijacked ad, so I'm happier with the AVG link-scanner nowadays. Extensive home network, what with kids laptops, desktops and iTouch thingies. Router has firewall, but like security of another too.

Looking into the MSE, but not sure I want to trust MS w/everything. Not that attached to ZA, but familiar w/it. New version is supposed to be less of resource hog. I just want something that will quit slowing down surfing and retrieving e-mail, which is what the AVG-ZA thing is making so miserable. XP setup is good w/an Athlon X2 processor, 3g ram and a GeForce 8600 GT, so I'm in no hurry to migrate yet ... and have a good DSL, so internet stuff shouldn't be quite so hinky, even sharing bandwidth w/kids!

Might get brave tonight and try new ZA.
dood1emom