Hi
Avast works fine but there’s a little strange thing on my system:
It’s about a known incompatebility, which is not the problem. Avast asked me
something about turning off webshield because Zonealarm and
proxy was detected. (choose ‘no’)
I don’ t even have a firewall, never had either, let alone I’d ever
install ZA. I am behind a linux router/firewall/proxy/etc.
System:
XPSP1
Avast Home 4.6691
FireFox 1.06 using the router *nix proxy
perhaps relevant: I’ve got cisco vpnclient 4.01 installed)
Avast is always running, except when I am playing multiplayer games.
By the way, when I tried to use ‘scan location’ from a shell-extension menu,
avast wouldn’t do anything untill it had completed some sort of setup cycle of MS Office XP. (At that point I installed Office a few days earlier)
In the file browser, there’s an entry in the right-click-menu which says ‘scan [location]’. When rightclicking on a file one should be able to scan that file.
The problem/curiousity was that a week ago I wanted to scan a file, but an Office XP setup dialog popped up asking to point to Office XP resources (it needed both PROPLUS.MSI and OFFICE1.CAB) so it could install some missing component.
I’ve no idea what component was missing and why Avast would need an office component. Only after completing the setup the scan would run.
This occurred a few days after I had installed Office XP (custom setup). It works like a charm now, but I am really curious what was missing.
Well, yes this is the reason. Cisco vpnclient uses the same driver as ZoneAlarm does. It should cause no more problems than the unwanted dialog (“No” was the correct answer in this case). We’ll try to come up with some more clever method of detecting ZoneAlarm (and it’s versions) in some future update. Unfortunately ZoneLabs team is ignoring our requests for cooperation, so we are left with guessing …
Screw ZoneLabs Lukas ! They won’t respond to you guys. I remember a long time ago you guys politely tried to communicate with them and still no answer or solution.
I just wanna see Alwil’s (avast! firewall). I’m sure you guys would make something extraordinary (Two of them… here goes one more )
