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BEING COMPUTER ILLITERAT,WOT IS A TRUE VECTOR.I TRIED TO INSTALL A FREE ZONEALARM FIREWALL BUT IT KEEPS TELLING ME I NEED TO SHUT DOWN THE TRUE VECTOR SO IT CAN LOG ON TO IT.HOW DO I DO THAT? DO I RESTART THE TRUE VECTOR AFTERWARDS OR LEAVE IT AND HOW DO I DO THAT?ANY ADVICE WOULD BE MOST APPRECIATED.

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Zone Alarm

Hi The Pict,

No offence but Zone Alarm is absolute rubbish.If You have Service Pack 2 on Your PC then there is no real need for a firewall. Windows will have its own. If I were you i would remove Zone Alarm completely from your PC and try something else. There are a million and 1 better than that shite. Let me know how you get on.

Macca :cool:
 
true vector is part of zone alarm. you either need to shut it down & restart or uninstall & reinstall (or not).

i have ZA on my 2 pcs & it's fine, certainly more protection than XP's built in firwall, which is just about adequate. your choice.

i have also put it on dozens of others with no probs.
 
found this in a forum - might help..

TrueVector is the invisible gatekeeper portion of ZoneAlarm. It's the guts of the software that actually controls and monitors Internet access on your computer.

TrueVector runs as a service or a background process, depending on your operating system. It loads at startup but doesn't show up in the task bar, and, for the most part, you will never see it.

Because TrueVector already is running, it's possible an older version of ZoneAlarm is installed on your computer. If that's the case, you should be able to remove it using Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel.

If ZoneAlarm isn't in Add/Remove Programs, or un-installing it doesn't help, then stopping the service is the next step.

if you are running Windows 98, you should be able to press control-alt-delete to bring up the Task Manager. In Task Manager, select TrueVector from the list, and click End Task.

Windows NT, 2000 or XP users can open the Control Panel, then double-click Administrative Tools. In Administrative Tools, double-click Services.

In the resulting list, right-click on TrueVector, and select properties. In that dialog box, you can either click stop or set the service to not run at startup by selecting disable from the startup type popup menu.

Those steps should stop the service and allow you to finish the installation.

If you set the service not to start automatically, you'll need to restart before attempting to install ZoneAlarm.
 
Zone Alarm

Cookie is right about the windows firewall being adequate, however there are still a hell of a lot better products around. Trouble is you gotta pay for them...Wherever there's a will there's a way.

www.bearshare.com 5.2.0 Free sponsered version

Macca :cool:
 
CHEERS FOR THE REPLYS BUT STILL CANNY GET IT. ANYONE GOT A LINK FOR A FREE FIREWALL AND STUFF THATS NOT ZONEALARM.AS I SAID COMPUTERS AINT ME STRONG POINT
 
I use Kerio Personal Firewall but it's not exactly for non-techies. It can block both inbound and outbound connection attempts; it also watches executables for any change that might indicate a virus. I find it extremely useful but I'm probably a bit more of a geek than you.
 


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