new MS security fix and zonealarm = no internet access
 

no sure if anyones had this problem (i did) but a very recent microsoft patch is causing problems with internet access if you use zonealarm. details here http://news.cnet.com/8301-10789_3-99....html?hhTest=1

there was a huge report on BBC about this very thing, I will see if I can find some online reference....

the broadcast I refer to was yesterday (July 09)

lol i wish i had seen it, i wasted an hour on this. my router was logging in ok to my isp and my router was communicating with my pc ok up to a point.

uninstalled/reinstalled firefox & zonealarm pro yesterday trying to fix it :mad: then just set the settings to medium once i found out wtf happened...

just installed the latest version & restored settings, seems to be ok now :)

Always barrels of fun when Microborg takes over your computer... RESISTANCE IS FUTILE! YOU WILL HAVE YOUR INTERNETS TURNED OFF!

First you people bitch when the computer is insecure, when they FINALLY make it secure, then that is bad too ??? :1orglaugh

Fuck, that's probably the reason why 3 PCs over here started having DNS problems at the same time lately. No anti-virus or anti-spyware was able to find the problem!!

It happened to me as well this morning. Ultimately I had to fully uninstall Zone Alarm and then reinstall to finally gain net access again. Wasted a good 90 minutes of my time figuring it out.

this appears to be a dns problem, so if you've got you're own servers chances are bind needs updating, i've just updated mine.

i'm not bitching at the problem, just at a wasted hour. you needed internet access to discover what the problem was.

Yeah I got hit too! OMG VIRUS!!!

yeah had that too
it sets the level to HIGH.. effectively blocking all in and out
you have to go into options somewhere.. forgot.. have it at home
and set it to medium.. then everythign will be back to normal

Um dipshit it seems it's more of a problem with ZoneAlarm than MS.

Zone alarm: The worthless software product for someone who doesn't remember what got installed when they ran the k3yg3n and don't know about 'netstat'.

Fucked up shit...