chrisf6969
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This might be specific to my computer, but today's (July 8th, 2008) super tuesday update KB951748 broke my internet connection. At least it did with ZoneAlarm version 7.0.473.000 running. When I shut down ZoneAlarm the internet worked again.
Just a warning to those with ZoneAlarm (free version). If you find after you reboot from your windows update & you have no internet connection, you'll have to manually remove it.
To do that:
reboot with the Win CD Repair console
go to the directory C:/windows/$NtUninstallKB951748/spuninst/
then type
batch spuninst.txt
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This restores copies of the pre-update files and bam my internet was back up & working with ZoneAlarm on.
I tried updating ZoneAlarm to see if that had anything to do with it, but it seems as though I already had the most recent version.
Other network information:
Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller NIC
Linksys WRT54G router
I don't think either of those would affect anything, but who knows maybe the NIC driver + update is what wasn't playing well with ZoneAlarm. Or the router needed some type of confirmation that wasn't being passed with ZoneAlarm + the update. I don't think so as I've only had that type of issue with wireless connections where the router couldn't "see" the computer properly to allow it.
Just a warning to those with ZoneAlarm (free version). If you find after you reboot from your windows update & you have no internet connection, you'll have to manually remove it.
To do that:
reboot with the Win CD Repair console
go to the directory C:/windows/$NtUninstallKB951748/spuninst/
then type
batch spuninst.txt
---------------------
This restores copies of the pre-update files and bam my internet was back up & working with ZoneAlarm on.
I tried updating ZoneAlarm to see if that had anything to do with it, but it seems as though I already had the most recent version.
Other network information:
Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller NIC
Linksys WRT54G router
I don't think either of those would affect anything, but who knows maybe the NIC driver + update is what wasn't playing well with ZoneAlarm. Or the router needed some type of confirmation that wasn't being passed with ZoneAlarm + the update. I don't think so as I've only had that type of issue with wireless connections where the router couldn't "see" the computer properly to allow it.