TSGL: Info on Armor Personal Firewall + ZA problems

[Tilman Brandl]

Thanks,

I'll try to get the 5.737 version then, if that's possible. Will do so after 
I return from upcoming vacation in 2008  <g>

Cheers
Tilman
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: H Davis
  To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
  Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 2:56 AM
  Subject: Re: TSGL: Info on Armor Personal Firewall + ZA problems


  Tilman,

  You may not have to go back to ZA v4.5. I've been using ZA v6.5.737 with
  the latest AVG, v7.5.503, on an XP SP2 system with all updates for some
  time now (more than a year) with no problems. I recently updated with
  the MS December updates with no problems. I use Thunderbird for my
  e-mail client.

  H Davis

  Tilman Brandl wrote:
  > Hi,
  >
  > maybe Scot's Newsletter is a good addition here for those who are 
interested
  > in more details on OA and other Fws
  >
  > http://blog.scotsnewsletter.com/2007/11/25/93/ with an Online Armor 
account
  > 
http://search.freefind.com/find.html?id=79259814&pid=r&mode=ALL&n=0&query=firewall
  > has a LOT of links to Scot's articles re. firewalls.
  >
  > 
http://www.matousec.com/projects/windows-personal-firewall-analysis/leak-tests-results.php
  > the Matousec page with a comparison table for 2 dozen or so FWs
  >
  >
  > Something distantly related: Unfortunately I have FW problems myself 
now.
  > A day ago I installed a few Win XP SP2 updates, then I also removed my 
free
  > ZA v. 4.5 (or similar) protection and stepped it up to v.7.0.362.0. 
Shortly
  > after when I tried to fetch my email, I ran into trouble. The download
  > stopped with email 3 of 9, nothing could get it to continue. After 
searching
  > the web for any kind of related information I switched off ZA, replacing 
it
  > by XPs FW (no outbound protection!). Didn't really help, therefore I
  > switched back to ZA 7 and disabled my free AVG virusprotection. Just
  > switching off email-checking had had no effect, but quitting had one - 
thing
  > were back to normal. I haven't seen any virus since .. I guess a few 
years
  > ago. Anyway, I would like to solve this. Problem is that I have no idea
  > whether perhaps anything coming with Win updates has triggered this. One
  > should never change two things at the same time ;-(
  >
  > Seems the times when I ran AVG together with ZA w/o any problems is 
petering
  > out after several years. But before this my last idea is to revert to 
good
  > old ZA 4.5.... Has anybody of you tried this? Guess I would have to
  > thoroughly clean my PC from all remnants of the new version before
  > re-installing v. 4.5. ? OTOH - since the free ZA is rated quite badly, I
  > wonder where to move on eventually.
  >
  > Tilman