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Hi,

I have updated to ZonAlarm 6 and ever since I have had repeated long delays
during startup. The log tells me that my McAfee anti-virus software keeps
timing out. If I don't load ZoneAlarm at startup and jusr manually run it
when everything has settled down, all is fine. My McAfee is completely
up-to-date.

Any ideas?

Vic

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Vic Russell <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
> I have updated to ZonAlarm 6 and ever since I have had repeated long delays
> during startup. The log tells me that my McAfee anti-virus software keeps
> timing out. If I don't load ZoneAlarm at startup and jusr manually run it
> when everything has settled down, all is fine. My McAfee is completely
> up-to-date.
> Any ideas?

Yes. You could drop Zonealarm, and just using the Windows-Firewall.

Yours,
VB.
--
"Es kann nicht sein, dass die Frustrierten in Rom bestimmen, was in
deutschen Schlafzimmern passiert".
Harald Schmidt zum "Weltjugendtag"

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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 17:27:37 GMT, "Vic Russell" <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:

>I have updated to ZonAlarm 6 and ever since I have had repeated long delays
>during startup. The log tells me that my McAfee anti-virus software keeps
>timing out. If I don't load ZoneAlarm at startup and jusr manually run it
>when everything has settled down, all is fine. My McAfee is completely
>up-to-date.
>

I have experienced exactly the same thing on several machines I
support ever since upgrading to ZA Pro 6 when it was first released.
Eventually McAfee will start up and everything will run normally but
for the first several minutes there is some sort of conflict. I
believe it may be related to the new anti-spyware feature of ZA
however, disabling that feature does not solve the problem. ZA says
to solve the problem you have to totally remove ZA and do a clean
install, however, I did that and it didn't help.

CD

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McAfee virusscan is not fully compatible with Zone Alarm.
Try to disable buffer overflow in McAfee and test if the problem still
occurs.
When you say up-to-date, I reckon you have applied patch 10 for McAfee.

Mike

Cranky Dude wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 17:27:37 GMT, "Vic Russell" <nospam@nospam.com>
> wrote:
>
> >I have updated to ZonAlarm 6 and ever since I have had repeated long delays
> >during startup. The log tells me that my McAfee anti-virus software keeps
> >timing out. If I don't load ZoneAlarm at startup and jusr manually run it
> >when everything has settled down, all is fine. My McAfee is completely
> >up-to-date.
> >
>
> I have experienced exactly the same thing on several machines I
> support ever since upgrading to ZA Pro 6 when it was first released.
> Eventually McAfee will start up and everything will run normally but
> for the first several minutes there is some sort of conflict. I
> believe it may be related to the new anti-spyware feature of ZA
> however, disabling that feature does not solve the problem. ZA says
> to solve the problem you have to totally remove ZA and do a clean
> install, however, I did that and it didn't help.
>
> CD

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Hello,

What McAfee virusscan version have you got ?
I have the same problem with VirusScan 8.0 (it seems csrss.exe attempts
to stop
mcshield.exe and that freezes the computer during a long time) and
apparently the problem is not occured with Virusscan 7.1...
If you have more informations...



miksilo@gmail.com a écrit :

> McAfee virusscan is not fully compatible with Zone Alarm.
> Try to disable buffer overflow in McAfee and test if the problem still
> occurs.
> When you say up-to-date, I reckon you have applied patch 10 for McAfee.
>
> Mike
>
> Cranky Dude wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 17:27:37 GMT, "Vic Russell" <nospam@nospam.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >I have updated to ZonAlarm 6 and ever since I have had repeated long delays
> > >during startup. The log tells me that my McAfee anti-virus software keeps
> > >timing out. If I don't load ZoneAlarm at startup and jusr manually run it
> > >when everything has settled down, all is fine. My McAfee is completely
> > >up-to-date.
> > >
> >
> > I have experienced exactly the same thing on several machines I
> > support ever since upgrading to ZA Pro 6 when it was first released.
> > Eventually McAfee will start up and everything will run normally but
> > for the first several minutes there is some sort of conflict. I
> > believe it may be related to the new anti-spyware feature of ZA
> > however, disabling that feature does not solve the problem. ZA says
> > to solve the problem you have to totally remove ZA and do a clean
> > install, however, I did that and it didn't help.
> >
> > CD

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On 14 Sep 2005 14:33:39 -0700, miksilo@gmail.com wrote:

>McAfee virusscan is not fully compatible with Zone Alarm.
>Try to disable buffer overflow in McAfee and test if the problem still
>occurs.
>When you say up-to-date, I reckon you have applied patch 10 for McAfee.
>

I'm using McAfee Enterprise 8.0i with patch 10 installed.

Disabling buffer overflow does NOT solve the problem. The computer
freezes while ZA is trying to start. It then happens approximately 3
times more, each time for about a minute. McAfee has a red slash
through it for one of the freezes. If I catch ZA at the beginning of
the boot sequence and prevent it from starting, then there are no
freeze ups. Then at a later time, say 5 or ten minutes later, I can
start up ZA and there are no problems.

CD

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Cranky Dude <junkmail1@infoventures.com> wrote:
> Disabling buffer overflow does NOT solve the problem. The computer
> freezes while ZA is trying to start.

What happens, if you disable Zonealarm?

Yours,
VB.
--
"Es kann nicht sein, dass die Frustrierten in Rom bestimmen, was in
deutschen Schlafzimmern passiert".
Harald Schmidt zum "Weltjugendtag"

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On 15 Sep 2005 22:04:53 +0200, Volker Birk <bumens@dingens.org> wrote:

>Cranky Dude <junkmail1@infoventures.com> wrote:
>> Disabling buffer overflow does NOT solve the problem. The computer
>> freezes while ZA is trying to start.
>
>What happens, if you disable Zonealarm?
>

If I disable ZA, then the computer starts up normally and there are no
freeze-ups.

CD

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Cranky Dude <junkmail1@infoventures.com> wrote:
> On 15 Sep 2005 22:04:53 +0200, Volker Birk <bumens@dingens.org> wrote:
> >Cranky Dude <junkmail1@infoventures.com> wrote:
> >> Disabling buffer overflow does NOT solve the problem. The computer
> >> freezes while ZA is trying to start.
> >What happens, if you disable Zonealarm?
> If I disable ZA, then the computer starts up normally and there are no
> freeze-ups.

Have you tried out the Windows-Firewall? If that works, maybe you'll
have your solution ;-)

Yours,
VB.
--
"Es kann nicht sein, dass die Frustrierten in Rom bestimmen, was in
deutschen Schlafzimmern passiert".
Harald Schmidt zum "Weltjugendtag"