Vista - BSOD Zone Alarm 0x000000D1 (0x00000078

Vista Home Premium.
Constantly getting BSOD, found to be Firewall (Zone Alarm). Uninstalled Zone
Alarm and no more BSOD, however Add Remove program listing is now incomplete
(missing several installed programs for uninstall that were there before
uninstalling Zone Alarm). Is there any way to fix the Programs and Features
(Add Remove Programs) listing?

Your safest bet is to reinstall the missing apps. If you use a restore point
you may well disable your system firewall till you reinstall zone alarm.
Obviously some bug in the zone alarm software.

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"Geodane" <Geodane@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am certain that the problem is within Zone Alarm. If I restore the system
the BSOD problem is back (as are all the program listings in Add Remove
Programs), disabling the system firewall has no effect on the problem.
Uninstall Zone Alarm according to their instructions and the Add Remove
Programs listing is changed. Not all of the programs are missing from the
listing just about half are gone bu at least I can use the machine.

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:40:05 -0800, Geodane wrote:
http://zonealarm.donhoover.net/uninstall.html

You are not going to find anything better than the Vista FW and Vista in
itself due to the advanced features the FW and Vista are using.

"Personal Firewalls" are mostly snake-oil.
http://www.samspade.org/d/firewalls.html

Jesper's Blogs-
At Least This Snake Oil Is Free.
http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesp...l-is-free.aspx
Windows Firewall: the best new security feature in Vista?
http://blogs.technet.com/jesper_joha...01/426921.aspx

Exploring The Windows Firewall.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tec...l/default.aspx
"If you try to block outbound connections from a computer that’s already
compromised, how can you be sure that the computer is really doing what you
ask? The answer: you can’t. Outbound protection is security theater—it’s a
gimmick that only gives the impression of improving your security without
doing anything that actually does improve your security. This is why
outbound protection didn’t exist in the Windows XP firewall and why it
doesn’t exist in the Windows Vista™ firewall."

Tap into the Vista firewall's advanced configuration features
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com...7-6098592.html
"...once you discover the secret of accessing its advanced configuration
settings via the MMC snap-in, you'll find it to be far more configurable
and functional. At last, Windows comes with a sophisticated personal
firewall that can be used to set up outbound rules as well as inbound, with
the ability to customize rules to fit your precise needs."
Or
Configure Vista Firewall to support outbound packet filtering
http://searchwindowssecurity.techtar...247138,00.html
Or
Vista Firewall Control (Free versions available).
Protects your applications from undesirable network incoming and outgoing
activity, controls applications internet access.
http://sphinx-soft.com/Vista/

Geodane:

ZA v 7.1.218+ is supposed to be SP1 compatible. The current free dnload is
v7.1.248, which I have not tried with SP1.

Above is per:
http://www.betanews.com/article/Vist...ers/1203618180

" 10:25 pm EST February 21, 2008 - This evening, a spokesperson for Check
Point Software Technologies, the parent company for ZoneAlarm, told BetaNews
that the build number Microsoft supplied us with for the version of
ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite it said was incompatible with Vista SP1,
was inaccurate. That build number should have been 7.1.105, stated Check
Point's Heather Haas, and not 7.1.218, which she said is compatible with
Vista SP1 and, in her words, "is not blocked."

"Check Point worked very closely with Microsoft during the development of
SP1 and we worked very hard to make sure we had a compatible product
available prior to the release of SP1," Haas stated. "We have reached out to
all of our current 7.1 customers to ensure they have the most up-to-date
version of the product before installing SP1." "


I am currently testing COMODO Firewall Pro in SP1 with excellent results.
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:40:05 -0800, Geodane wrote:
http://zonealarm.donhoover.net/uninstall.html

You are not going to find anything better than the Vista FW and Vista in
itself due to the advanced features the FW and Vista are using.

"Personal Firewalls" are mostly snake-oil.
http://www.samspade.org/d/firewalls.html

Jesper's Blogs-
At Least This Snake Oil Is Free.
http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesp...l-is-free.aspx
Windows Firewall: the best new security feature in Vista?
http://blogs.technet.com/jesper_joha...01/426921.aspx

Exploring The Windows Firewall.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tec...l/default.aspx
"If you try to block outbound connections from a computer that’s already
compromised, how can you be sure that the computer is really doing what you
ask? The answer: you can’t. Outbound protection is security theater—it’s a
gimmick that only gives the impression of improving your security without
doing anything that actually does improve your security. This is why
outbound protection didn’t exist in the Windows XP firewall and why it
doesn’t exist in the Windows Vista™ firewall."

Tap into the Vista firewall's advanced configuration features
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com...7-6098592.html
"...once you discover the secret of accessing its advanced configuration
settings via the MMC snap-in, you'll find it to be far more configurable
and functional. At last, Windows comes with a sophisticated personal
firewall that can be used to set up outbound rules as well as inbound, with
the ability to customize rules to fit your precise needs."
Or
Configure Vista Firewall to support outbound packet filtering
http://searchwindowssecurity.techtar...247138,00.html
Or
Vista Firewall Control (Free versions available).
Protects your applications from undesirable network incoming and outgoing
activity, controls applications internet access.
http://sphinx-soft.com/Vista/

>> You are not going to find anything better than the Vista FW and Vista inKayman:

I partially disagree.
For outbound application control the Vista f/w is not convenient to use.
So I have used ZA free in Vista sans SP1, and COMODO Firewall Professional
in Vista with SP1 for outbound application control.

Therefore, I run two f/ws concurrently; one for application filtering, and
one for packet filtering (Vista's).

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:17:10 -0800, CZ wrote:
Exploring The Windows Firewall.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tec...l/default.aspx

"Outbound protection is security theater¡Xit¡¦s a gimmick that only gives the
impression of improving your security without doing anything that actually
does improve your security."