Racecar
03-18-01, 07:09 PM
I have installed ZA Pro on three OS's and had problems that ended up w\a reinstall of the OS each time. The program would work for a while (few days\hours) and then I would start having mysterious crashes until the system(s) would no longer boot. The OS's were W98se, W2K Pro, and W2K Server. Actually, on server I did not have to do a reinstall, just removed ZA Pro. 98se & W2K Server were set up as ICS servers. The W2K Pro box was just a client. I went back to using ZA free edition & BI Defender on my ICS box which worked fine.
FWIW...I recently stopped using ICS software altogether and installed a hardware router for my home network and ZA free edition on the clients. So far no attacks have made it through the router to the client boxes, so ZA has not had anything to do this past week.
Don't know why I had so many probs w/ZA Pro. Have used most all the other homestyle software firewalls w\little or no probs. I like Tiny firewall but it is a little over the head of most 'puter users new to firewalls, and many seem to set fairly open rules for everything just to stop being prompted for educated\intelligent user input from the program.
Wonder if I am the only one who has had this type experience?? Maybe a bit or two got crossed up when I downloaded my paid version...I don't know but got tired of fooling around with it. I don't ever remember having a legit program that whacked my 'puters so bad I had to do total reinstalls though (have had this experience froma virus though :( :confused:
FWIW...I recently stopped using ICS software altogether and installed a hardware router for my home network and ZA free edition on the clients. So far no attacks have made it through the router to the client boxes, so ZA has not had anything to do this past week.
Don't know why I had so many probs w/ZA Pro. Have used most all the other homestyle software firewalls w\little or no probs. I like Tiny firewall but it is a little over the head of most 'puter users new to firewalls, and many seem to set fairly open rules for everything just to stop being prompted for educated\intelligent user input from the program.
Wonder if I am the only one who has had this type experience?? Maybe a bit or two got crossed up when I downloaded my paid version...I don't know but got tired of fooling around with it. I don't ever remember having a legit program that whacked my 'puters so bad I had to do total reinstalls though (have had this experience froma virus though :( :confused: