MS Security Patch Blocks Net Access For ZoneAlarm Users

An anonymous reader writes "Users of Check Point ZoneAlarm security products, including the extremely popular, free-of-charge software firewall, have discovered that a Microsoft security update released on Tuesday has blocked their internet access. The firewall manufacturer is 'investigating the issue,' and so far the workaround seems to be to uninstall the recent DNS spoofing vulnerability fix MS08-037 (KB951748), and not reinstall it until Microsoft or Check Point have come up with updated versions of their products."

Comments

One program breaks and it's an M$ issue? Nah.

[Behrooz]

...or instead of complaining to Microsoft, you can disable ZoneAlarm and enjoy having your connection work again. Cheap firewalls failing to perform exactly how you'd like them to is an old, old story.

Given the ridiculous profusion of budget 'security' software swarming around, it hardly seems fair to lay the blame on M$ when ZoneAlarm is the only program that this patch appears to conflict with.

Of course, if ZoneAlarm wasn't proprietary, we could go see where they screwed up. Maybe you should go harass them for being closed-source instead?