I have ZoneAlarm and at first WD said ZA was reporting its firewall was not
running or anti-virus. I un and reinstalled ZA and now WD recognizes the ZA
anti-virus is on, but says ZA reporting firewall not on. Of course, ZA is
saying all systems go. I did at one point have to indicate "I will check
myself" if these are running - but the only other option seemed to be
actually turning on the Vista firewall.
Mark
"frogliver" wrote:
>
> "Amanda" <Amanda@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news
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> >I have AVG Internet security suite and Vista Ultimate 32 bit. They have
> >been
> > working perfectly together until the last few days. Suddenly Security
> > Center
> > reports I have no anti virus program or firewall. AVG sent me a file they
> > said MIGHT fix it (they said the problem was with Vista but did not
> > specify
> > what the problem was) but vista won't let me run the file, blocks it. I
> > don't
> > have paid support with Microsoft. Has someone else had this problem? I
> > could
> > turn off reporting, but would rather not.
> > Amanda
> > --
> > Amanda B
>
> I have AVG7 Free with the newest Zone Alarm beta for the firewall as well as
> the Windows firewall switched on (redundant I know, against advice, always
> works for me). I don't like the Security Suite idea because even installing
> the Email component the with AV can mess up the works. Something about
> layered apps makes me queasy. This is just from my own long-time experience
> with trying just about everything at one time or another.
>
> If I were you I would uninstall AVG and get a clean DL and reinstall, not
> install all the bells and whistles, just the AV, forget the Email component,
> you don't need it I'm told by the Outlook experts, and use other
> firewall(s). Once you get it all set up, create a restore point .
>
> I have used all of the ZoneAlarm betas for Vista so far and they work as ell
> as in XP -- I love the little dynamic icon in the taskbar as a monitor for
> internet activity too.
>
> I also run Windows Defender, Spyware Terminator with Realtime Shield, Spybot
> Resident, and WinPatrol along with the above --all free and they synch just
> fine with each other. When danger presents, I get a "whoa" from at least one
> of them.
>
> That's what I do -- hope it helps.
>
> Frogman
>
>