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turned it off to play games last night, and formated the pc today...
had been having repeated "atempts" detected by za for days, got tired of it and let my guard down....... bad mistake... https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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ouch!!!!
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plz post back and let us know if it helped (unless of course im asking the question)
all is ok, only operating system is on "c", rest is elseware.... after installing the latest version of ZA I kept getting repeated hits..... I was one of the 1st to get the za update, after installing it the hits wouldnt stop......hmmm... I thought (this all started when code red did)... anyways, last night I decided to play games and had to "kill" ZA in order too....... had fun played, no problem..... woke up this morning and no operating system..... HHMMMMMMM
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any hint of what hit you? mach
no idea mach, I was fed up with the hits by za..... Ive since reverted back to earlier version of za and dont see the hits, is this good or bad.... I dont know Im at 2.6.69
and no probs yet, been online about 3 hours and not 1 hit, with new version I was hit at least 40-50 times in 1-2 hours.... Im dial up, no broad band here yet.
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I got 2.6.88 version getting a bunch of hits, like 20+ an hour. Thought I had an old 2.1.44 still but only a 2.1.25 I found. I got to show this thread to the disbelieving Bingoaholic who wants to drop ZA to play a Euchre site. I tell her they must be up to something there because the site used to play okay when I had 2.1.44 installed and running. I think it was running when I upped to 2.6.88 but when the site stopped working right, they recommended dropping ZA to play. Maybe they want to run some spyware while you play to get their $$ worth off running the games. Maybe when she sees your post here, she will back off. I told her if she crashes it out by shutting ZA off, she will be doing the fixing herself.
She thinks I am full of it and also blames ZA running for why her Bingo wins are not being "acknowledged" at another site. They told her corrupt cookies may be why. (I allow her to have cookies open at the Bingo sites because some sites won't update your stats or even run if they are off)
Be nice to know what you got hit with.
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lol, wish i knew..... was asleep, errr i thought... im still confused, no za alarms since reinstall of earlier version....hmmm
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strange things hapnin.....
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I see.....you is about to hit 1500. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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HP A$$kicker
It does have to be asked - is ZoneAlarm really any use? If people have to turn it off to do things and don't know what's hitting when it signals something is wrong - is anything really wrong? Change version and no hits - are you missing something important?
HI, just thought i'd mention that i use BlackICE Defender FireWall.....i find it cool, i never need to turn it off when playing games or anything, its really user friendly, works great for me....doesn't keep asking for permission it decides for its-self....
Regards https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
Now that you've made everyone paranoid how about explaining why you think your problem evolves around some evil doer who got into your computer from your dail-up connection? I certainly don't believe it and am surprised that so many do.....but its understandable when post like yours, with no substance, are posted blaming some unknown outside source as the cause of your computer going South on you.
Exfed4u
You get hacked one time, yes dialup, as you have no idea what the last person to have your ip number did to make someone mad, and you will believe him.
I got hacked twice and have been using ZA ever since. Even have a hardware firewall now and have ZA still stop stuff once in a while.
Had to restore both time also.
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I use ZA Pro all the time and haven't upgraded ... and likely won't. It blocks everything now, so why bother. The rush to get the latest is not always the smartest move .... And I keep the alerts popup off so if I am getting hits I don't see 'em. All I care is that I am protected. Not much point in seeing the hits, in my opinion, since I am not going to bother tracing any more anyway .... it just annoys me when I am surfing or something to have them jumping up anyway. Kinda like having a condom tell me it is protecting me when .... well, you see what I mean https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
Anyway, I started this to say that I use Playsite.com http://playsite.com/index.gsp
for online games like euchre, etc. and have no trouble at all with ZA.
exfed, I understand the ex part https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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ZA is great but went to TINY for the pinging problems. TINY has worked great.
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Hi murf... im also thinking of trying tiny, right now im running ZA & Black Ice together, no hits yet....lol go figure,
(za version 2.6.88 Black Ice version 2.5.co)
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And I am familiar with "Stings"
lol
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Why does my ZA say 2.6.231 is the latest version when I autoupdate? Where can I go for the new version?
I'm at 18 pings in the last 20 minutes. I must be on someone's list somewhere.
Running Tiny here for a couple months. Wish I knew how to master the program though. I have just been doing the default of when asked give and I am not letting the Kernel out since I heard it can divulge.
Hi All, ZoneAlarm 2.6.231 is the latest version. I had no probs with the last one. I updated to one just below this one and it would not let me download my web sites. refused to conect to ISP even. Went into Reg to get rid of every piece of zone then put this version in. Works but when on Morpheos it keeps stoping Morph from takeing my music from my folders. 20 hits from it in last 15 min.And peeps from France,Germany trying to enter, driveing me nuts it is.
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Ever noticed a icon resting on the zone alarm taskbar icon?
Hi Gone Fishing
I have a small blue background with what looks like a letter "Q" on my Zone Alarm icon on the Taskbar.
Sometimes it there, sometimes it goes away. I don't know what it is, nor how to get rid of it.
Don
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I think anybody running a firewall is experiencing a frequency of alerts and pings lately. Don't forget the internet garbage aren't direct attempts, these are the majority I get over port scan attempts.
Possibly the game sting was playing has some hacks in it? (speculation)I'm not a gamer but I've noticed some references to it on gamer related sites.
You can always reduce the pop up window notification option to the task bar (The @ icon in the task bar) and review the log later.
mach.
The game site problems with ZA are a fact of life unfortunately. Pogo.com which is the site I use along with a lot of other people has changed their Java scripting on some games and games rooms and this "new and improved" java is what get's blocked by ZA.
I turn my ZA off to go play and chance my luck. So far so good(fingers crossed_
OK, yes. But I never removed the checkmark. At least not on purpose and it happened a couple of times. Hasn't happened since I added another firewall to go with zone alarm.
I have heard alot of people talking about getting alot of hits with the newest versions. I have the newest and have very few hits. I wonder if you had some spyware that you didn't know about? Just an Idea.
The way I am though is that if a site wont let me in because of ZA, I dont go. I figure they need to turn down their system if they want me in.... Just my way though....
Glad you got it up and going though. That is a real kick in the butt.....
I got Black Ice Network defender (name right?) and get notified of more hits with it than I ever did using ZA. ...
After turning ZA off for a minute or so... SEE HERE and then needing to reformat I installed Tiny PF. With the updated ZA my activity light on the cable modem was flashing so much that it appeared as to be a steady light. With Tiny PF it now blinks about 10 times per minute??? Wonder if that's good or bad???
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Sting,
I wonder if you over-reacted by reformating and reinstalling.
I have had terrible problems that sound eerily like yours, where suddenly I am unable to boot. First impulse was to do what you did, but instead I rebooted in safe mode, and removed every trace of ZA. And Voila, everything worked.
My ISP told me they have many support calls that are caused by ZA, and sent me detailed instructions how to remove it. They went on to say the ZA uninstaller does not remove many of the references in the registry, and leaves a bunch of files that mess thing up too. I found this to be true.
The uninstall instructions can be found in my post here: http://discussions.virtualdr.com/For...ML/049423.html
I have become suspicious that ZA is a worse virus than the viruses it purports to protect us from, as it has caused both instability and unrecoverable crashes for me.
Will
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For those of you using Black Ice, read the page at the link and then read Steve Gibson's poor review of Black Ice down near the bottom and see if you still want it. Steve really knows his stuff when it comes to internet security. I used to think it was good but not anymore.
http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm
More of Steve's firewall findings here:
http://grc.com/lt/scoreboard.htm
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My connection problems started not too long after in installed Zonealarm too.
( http://discussions.virtualdr.com/For...ML/046282.html )
I wasn't able to connect, and the few times I was the browser wouldn't work, email checkers, etc. Nothing I did worked hehe. I had turned off Zonealarm, then uninstalled it, then reinstalled it... no good. I got Compuserve to send me a disk so i could reinstall, and that KINDA worked but i still had the connection problems. Funny thing is, a couple days ago I updated ZoneAlarm and haven't had one problem since https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ (now that i said that i'll problably crash...)
I am on dial-up and i haven't had ONE single alert since the update.... and everything seems to be working. I'm not saying Zonealarm WAS my problem, but it's quite a coincidence. Hope i don't get flamed lol.
[This message has been edited by Dala (edited 09-10-2001).]