Re: FIX for ZoneAlarm & KB951748 issue released
Microsoft patch knocks some ZoneAlarm users offline:
**Firewall's hooks into Windows XP kernel the cause, says ZoneAlarm**
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9108298
-jen
"Paul (Bornival)" <PaulBornival@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:7C0F355E-FB21-4DAD-BB25-860799FE8FEA@microsoft.com...
> nOh, thank you.
> Any idea why ZA assumed those changes were due to malware infection.
> I like
> to know the details sice, after all, software is not "magic" but
> somethig
> made by a human (and therefore, intelligible by another human) to be
> used by
> a machine (and not the opposite).
> Paul.
>
> "Harry Johnston [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Paul (Bornival) wrote:
>>
>> > Thank you for your reply. I checked these forums but could not
>> > find
>> > specific information. Do you know which files were modified and
>> > why ZA could
>> > not cope with them ?
>>
>> The Microsoft KB article describes the files that the update
>> replaces:
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951748
>>
>> <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951748>
>>
>> I haven't confirmed this myself, but my understanding is that ZA
>> assumed that
>> the changes were due to malware infection and refused to use the
>> files.
>>
>> Harry.
>>