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MS Security Patch Blocks Net Access For ZoneAlarm Users

Posted by timothy on from the oh-there-can't-be-more-than-a-handful dept.

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."

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  1. Re:And this is a bad thing how? by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... it certainly makes their computers less prone to being hacked on the net ...

    I know you wrote it as a joke, but it gets me thinking on the proprietary software problem again (yeah yeah, I know, more anti-MS babbling). The risk of having your operating system suddenly lose internet access completely is inadmissible. Since Windows is a closed-source product, only the maker (Microsoft) knows how to fix vulnerabilities. And if they screw up, like in this case, we have to depend on them to fix the problem. Either you lose internet access, or still are vulnerable to the DNS exploit.