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Megaschwanz

28-09-2005, 03:08

Anyone tested the new Zone Alarm 6.0 ??

The Prog blocks my normal Broadband internet Connection ?

I must shutdown Zone Alarm, then click on my Internet Provider, then turn on Zone Alarm again, and then it works ?????? :confused:

Monty Burns

28-09-2005, 03:21

Then you probably configured it wrong. Nevertheless v6 seems to have some issues up to know. When I upgraded, it deleted all my configured progs, so I had to configure their access / no access manually again. That sucked !

So have a look if all of your configurations you made in v5 are still there !

kosmiq

28-09-2005, 03:45

I love the latest Zone Alarm to be honest, it saved most of my old options too but I went from older 6.0 to new 6.0.667. Some things had to be reconfiged but most worked great.

Luciel

28-09-2005, 07:16

Everytime i update zonealarm regardless of the version it deleted my configured progs :(

kosmiq

28-09-2005, 08:16

Thats strange... During the installation I always select "Upgrade" instead of "Complete Reinstall" (or whatever it says). That makes it keep my settings.. Maybe you forget to change that???

Luciel

28-09-2005, 09:55

nah i always choose upgrade :/

Monty Burns

28-09-2005, 10:38

I have always chosen to update....
Normally it kept all my settings until I updated to 6.0.667. This update killed all my settings, even my preconfigured "secure zones" like my home lan. That really, really sucked !

Megaschwanz

29-09-2005, 01:47

Everything works now. I recommend to deinstall older Version of ZA manually. I had version 5.5 + 6.0 on my pc (Bad Installationprogramm of Zone Alarm 6.0), although I choose "New Installation" at the beginning, not "Update".
By the way, maybe THIS was my fault.

Megaschwanz

30-09-2005, 15:59

Zone Alarm 6 with new "Smart Defense" is bull****. I re-installed 5.5 again. I had lot probs with silly alerts during playing Battlefield 2 online and a worse ping. :mad: :mad: :mad: :eek: :eek:

spidross01

30-09-2005, 16:35

well have just installed zone alarm 6 latest version and had no adverse effects at all with it on battlefield 2, turn off the smart alerts and voila!!!

spidross01

03-10-2005, 15:14

Further to my last,

HAve just installed the new version (update Etc) of zone alarm and it will not keep it's settings when i shut down and restart, really annoying when i am trying to play bf2!!

Any ideas or am i doing anything wrong

Megaschwanz

25-10-2005, 15:44

Now it works, but configuring ZA 6 is hard work.

For Battlefield 2 I switched the Smart Defense Trust Button of BF2.exe to "super" (No Questions anymore)

Services.exe (windows) must be "Super", or the game (and PC) collapse during online gaming.

I did this with most safe windows programms to get rid of silly questions.