[Xitami] Connection problem

[David Petrie]

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The latest Zone Alarm (3.1.xxx) appears not to work very well under W2K (my
personal experience was, it stank) and XP.  It hogged CPU cycles like there
was no tomorrow (up to 99% on my machine) and continually forgot the
settings; I suspect this may be why it wouldn't allow Xitami to connect. 
Also, in spite of what the Zonelabs online documentation said, apparently,
you should have completely uninstalled your old Zone Alarm before upgrading,
and _not_ imported any previous settings to the new version.  I understand
this helps performance somewhat (not enough, IMO).

If you like Zone Alarm (and I've been a fan for some time, using 2.6.xxx
releases), and haven't migrated to something else (Tiny, Sygate), do a
complete uninstall of 3.1.xxx (select "custom" instead of "automatic",
because "automatic" leaves registry keys, etc.), reboot, reinstall your old
Zone Alarm, reboot again, and you should be OK.

If you've gone to some other firewall, you should visit the Zonelabs site at
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/support/znalmInstallFAQ.jsp for
instructions on how to do a full uninstall, since the old Zone Alarm
settings may interfere with your new firewall.

For more info on Zone Alarm and its problems, visit http://download.com.com
and do a search on "zone alarm"; I understand from reading the posts there
that people have had problems with both the free and premium 3.1.xxx
releases.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
David

>Message: 9
>From: "WhiteShepherd" <fuzzydog@whiteshepherd.net>
>To: xitami@lists.xitami.org
>Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 19:16:41 -0400
>Subject: Re: [Xitami] Connection problem
>Reply-To: xitami@lists.xitami.org
>
>My Zone Alarm recently "upgraded" to the new Zone Alarm (don't 
>remember version). Despite the fact I added Xitami into the program 
>wizard after the second reboot Zone Alarm ALWAYS blocked all access 
>to Xitami no mater what I tried. Forced me to switch to Norton if I 
>wanted to use a firewall and Xitami. Hope others had better 
>experience. This problem showed on my Windows NT box running 
>Xitami 2.4d9 running very stable until the new zone alarm. 
>
>WhiteShepherd 
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