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Thanks for that Spod, at this time these seem OK but this eye will be kept 
open


"spodosaurus" <spodosaurus@_yahoo_.com> wrote in message 
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> An update this week to AVG has been causing a raft of false positives in a 
> few programs. One of these programs is zone alarm, and it disables the 
> program. Restoring the entries from the virus vault does not fix the 
> program, and you must uninstall and reinstall ZoneAlarm. Many people were 
> lucky and didn't update during the time that the bad update file was 
> there, and you won't notice any issues. If you can no longer see ZoneAlarm 
> in your system tray and you run AVG you may have been affected.
>
> Ari
>
>
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> Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant. Please 
> volunteer to be a marrow donor and literally save someone's life:
> http://www.abmdr.org.au/
> http://www.marrow.org/ 

"spodosaurus" <spodosaurus@_yahoo_.com> wrote in message 
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> An update this week to AVG has been causing a raft of false positives in a 
> few programs. One of these programs is zone alarm, and it disables the 
> program. Restoring the entries from the virus vault does not fix the 
> program, and you must uninstall and reinstall ZoneAlarm. Many people were 
> lucky and didn't update during the time that the bad update file was 
> there, and you won't notice any issues. If you can no longer see ZoneAlarm 
> in your system tray and you run AVG you may have been affected.
>
> Ari
>

I had this happen to me the other day.  I found you can set AVG8 (free 
version) to allow exceptions for the ZoneAlarm folders. From the User 
Interface, Tools, Advanced Settings..., Resident Shield, Exceptions, Add 
Path -then- browse to the C:\Windows\System32\ZoneLabs\ folder and the 
C:\Program Files\ZoneLabs\ folder (if that's where you installed Zone Alarm. 
I haven't had problem since.

Charlie

"spodosaurus" wrote:
> An update this week to AVG has been causing a raft of false positives in a 
> few programs. One of these programs is zone alarm, and it disables the 
> program. Restoring the entries from the virus vault does not fix the 
> program, and you must uninstall and reinstall ZoneAlarm. Many people were 
> lucky and didn't update during the time that the bad update file was 
> there, and you won't notice any issues. If you can no longer see ZoneAlarm 
> in your system tray and you run AVG you may have been affected.

I stopped using AVG when it gave false-positives to a number of uninfected 
files.  It changed the "zone" information for the files, and subsequently 
WinXP would no longer allow me to access the files, even when AVG and all of 
it's services were turned off.

I don't like being forced out of my data, or cut out of the loop, so I 
dumped AVG.  Still trying to figure out an AV solution that allows me to 
control my own machine.

Jon 

Jon Danniken wrote:
> "spodosaurus" wrote:
>> An update this week to AVG has been causing a raft of false positives in a 
>> few programs. One of these programs is zone alarm, and it disables the 
>> program. Restoring the entries from the virus vault does not fix the 
>> program, and you must uninstall and reinstall ZoneAlarm. Many people were 
>> lucky and didn't update during the time that the bad update file was 
>> there, and you won't notice any issues. If you can no longer see ZoneAlarm 
>> in your system tray and you run AVG you may have been affected.
> 
> I stopped using AVG when it gave false-positives to a number of uninfected 
> files.  It changed the "zone" information for the files, and subsequently 
> WinXP would no longer allow me to access the files, even when AVG and all of 
> it's services were turned off.
> 
> I don't like being forced out of my data, or cut out of the loop, so I 
> dumped AVG.  Still trying to figure out an AV solution that allows me to 
> control my own machine.
> 
> Jon 
> 
> 

Linux :) hehehe

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spammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply
Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant. Please 
volunteer to be a marrow donor and literally save someone's life:
http://www.abmdr.org.au/
http://www.marrow.org/