TSGL: MS SP1 for Vista--Anyone Else Having Problems??

[Russell W. Coover]

Betanews shows it as Vista compatible. Go here ...

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Comodo_Firewall_Pro/1132729513/1

Russ

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Mike Ferrell
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 4:47 PM
To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
Subject: Re: TSGL: MS SP1 for Vista--Anyone Else Having Problems??

Russ,
Is Comodo updated for Vista now?  I took a look at it some time ago and it 
was not.
Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russell W. Coover" <coover at fastmail.fm>
To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 2:11 AM
Subject: Re: TSGL: MS SP1 for Vista--Anyone Else Having Problems??


>I have installed SP1 on 5 separate machines without a problem of any kind.
> None of those machines ran Zone Alarm, so I haven't had any experience 
> with
> that problem. I suggest you may want to go to MS's firewall already
> installed on all Vista machines, or perhaps download and use the Comodo
> Firewall, which a whole lot of people seem to like.
>
> Like Zone Alarm, I have had no experience with Linksys. I tend to 
> recommend
> and use Netgear, though I have heard good thinks about Linksys. I don't
> recommend you change routers if yours works satisfactorily, but you might
> want to check with Linksys to determine if they have a software update to
> fix any SP1 problem.
>
> And yes, I do recommend you run SP1 when you can get it to work with your
> router.
>
> Russ Coover
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
> Behalf Of Lee Bunyard
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:23 AM
> To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
> Subject: TSGL: MS SP1 for Vista--Anyone Else Having Problems??
>
> Service Pak 1 for Vista came out of Beta Tuesday and came up on my
> desktop pc as a Windows Update item this a.m., so I just finished
> downloading it--takes over an hour to download and install.  When it
> finished and re-booted, I discovered that
> 1) my ZoneAlarm Free firewall no longer works because of
> "incompatibility problems".  I had read that the Zone Alarm Internet
> Security Suite would not work with SP1 but had not heard that even the
> standalone basic Zone Alarm firewall doesn't work either.
>
> 2) I had no Internet connection.  Apparently there is a driver
> incompatibility with the LinkSys wireless router I use for the wireless
> connection to my laptop (which I am using of course to send this
> email).  With the usual gobblygook error message from MS, I checked to
> make sure the network boxes are properly checked per the MS instruction
> and they are.  Still doesn't work.  FWIW--my desktop running Vista is
> less than six months old, and the LinkSys router is about a year old.
>
> So now I am uninstalling the SP1 Pak.  It will take over an hour to do
> that and I can only hope that the pc boots up properly after doing so.
> Wish me luck.  I'll try System Restore I suppose if it doesn't.
>
> Does anyone know what the impact will be of NOT installing Vista SP1??
> I haven't read anything about that.
>
> No wonder so many people are so disgusted with MS.  Wouldn't you think
> that with the large number of LinkSys wireless routers out there that MS
> would have identified a potential problem in SP1 during all the beta
> testing that was done and offer a better solution??  But then again, I
> remember the mess that many people had with the XP SP2 update a few
> years back.
>
> OK, I got this off my chest, back to checking on the uninstall.
> Call me "Totally Disgusted Lee in the Mountains of Northern California"
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