Whats with Zonealarm Pro and XP?

[Think]

Under Control Panel/Performance and Maintanence/Administrative Tools/Event Viewer/Application, I get a number of errors that are related to True Vector. For example:

Type : Error
Date : 25/02/2002
Time 9:44pm
Source : True Vector Service
Category : None
Event : 1
User : N/A

When I double click on one of those errors, I get this:

"The description for Event ID(1) in Source (True Vector Service) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE = flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. Teh following information is part of the event:.

Bytes:

0000:4f 70 65 6e 50 72 6f 63 OpenProc
0008:65 73 73 45 72 72 6f 72 essError
0010: 20 35 3a 20 6f 6e 20 70 5: on p
0018: 72 6f 63 65 73 73 20 49 rocess I
0020: 44 20 38 38 38 2c 20 6e D 888, n
0028: 61 6d 65 64 20 00 amed .

I have 15 instances of this today! and I installed it today. I am willing to buy the product but this has to be resolved.

I also get a strange problem with Sierra/Halflife/TFC. When I play on-line, my mouse character 'view' will only look in one area if I try to move the character with the keyboard. When I don't use the keyboard, I can view properly with the mouse. The game has full access and can act as a server. As soon as I shutdown Zonealarm, the game works fine.

New trial version 2.6.362, true vector 2.6.362.

[Roody]

no idea on that one. i have xp and za pro and never had that problem.

[Think]

Really?...hmm. It's showing up on several computers from friends and associates of mine.

I emailed Zonealarm but since it's an evaluation product, customer support is not given so I replied, indicating that this is a case of what comes first, the chicken or the egg?

If the product has problems in it's evaluation state, then why would I buy it?

Think I'll stick with XP's built in firewall, not as good but at least it's not as buggy.

Have you ever tried uninstalling Zonealarm?...it's a crazy procedure to say the least.

http://www.zonealarm.com/services/support_install_XP.htm

[Mike_W]

I use ZA on WinXp and Win98se. Never had a problem at all. Just bought the Pro Version of Zone Alarm...still working fantastic!!

[Rawnad]

yeah get that too ....

[Ashdaw]

I had trouble with a CLEAN install of ZAP 2.362 on my XP drive, it installed ok but would LOSE the settings every time I used it. I uninstalled it using the Method described by Zone Alarm and then ran my Cleansweep uninstaller and then Reinstalled it, worked fine after that????

I wouldnt use the built in one, even though it was made by Tiny, it is at best a bandaid.. :(

[Ken]

Getting some ZA threads up top...
Ken