zonealarm issues

Hi guys and gals Im new to the forum so please forgive me if this problem has already been addressed.I just formatted my hard disk and installed Zonealarm Internet security 7.0 and when I reboot my PC it takes a long time to boot up, it also freezes for about 2 or 3 mins upon start up.Is there anything I can do to stop this its very annoying.

Im running XP and I have all of the updates from microsoft.

Thanks in advance CJ

 

Seems to be fairly common right now, have a look here http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=133271&highlight=shutdown

Steve

 

Thanks Mata much appreciated

I was gonna uninstall it and reinstall but Ill try those instructions i found in your link 1st.

Cheers mate!

 

I've been using ZoneAlarm since its inception, and I've never had
any reason to consider changing to a different firewall. All my
friends used it, and over the years I've installed it on numerous
computers with no problems.

However, since Zone Labs disposed of it a few years back, the program
IMO has become increasingly unreliable and buggy.

Although reluctant to do so, I recently began looking elsewhere for a
replacement firewall. I tried 2 or 3 alternatives before settling on
Comodo which has proved to be just as good as the ZoneAlarm of old.

I've just installed Comodo's Anti-Spyware program, BOClean which
seems to be quite good also. But only time will tell so I'm not getting
rid of Spybot or AdAware just yet.

 

If what the Tech Support article suggests is true, then it would seem that there is not much point in having the program installed at all.

It can be difficult to assess the effectiveness of a program like BOClean because it can't be used for manual scans. Users are relying on the program to detect incoming malware before it can be installed on their machines, which is well and good, so long as it does in fact catch everything. Trouble is, there is no way of knowing whether or not it is doing its job effectively without doing regular manual system scans, which a user would be doing anyway if they wanted to keep their system free of malware.

I’ve been using three free anti-spyware programs for some time now, and I do manual system scans 2 or 3 times weekly with one or the other, and as far as I know, my system is free of malware. AVG anti-virus has always been my frontline of defence against all the nasties, and it is the only malware/spyware program I have which is memory resident at all times.

Keeping a computer free of viruses and malware is simply a matter of keeping detection programs up to date and using them on a regular basis, but I’ve found that there are a lot of people who just can’t be bothered.