Re: Disk Error-Checking

From: Wesley Vogel (123WVogel955_at_comcast.net)
Date: 07/07/04 

Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 02:41:36 GMT

Howdy Rocky,

Somebody bought Zone Labs. And they are probably going to show the
world how they can mess up ZoneAlarm. ;-(

I had it on good authority that there was a fix.

Actually, the problem is that vsmon.exe starts too soon, so chkdsk.exe
doesn't have exclusive use of the volume.

I just now thought of this. (Light bulb here.) All one would have to do is
pull the plug on their modem, for safety. Schedule chkdsk to run, and set
the TrueVector Internet Monitor service to disabled, set Zonealarm not to
load at startup.

Reboot. Set TrueVector Internet Monitor service back to automatic and start
it. Set ZA to load at startup, start it. Plug the modem back in.

Nah. Someone's thought of that. The problem would be that a user would
forget to set things right again so ZA would run again correctly.

Thought I had a deal going there for about five minutes. Oh well. 

-- 
Hope this helps.  Let us know.
Wes
In news:%23HtLPW7YEHA.2480@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl,
Rocket J. Squirrel <rocky@bullwinkle.com>  hunted and pecked:
> Hi Wesley:
>
> I don't think that Zone Labs has fixed the problems with v.5 quite
> yet. For now, the conventional wisdom is to revert back to v.4.5. To
> do this, users need to completely uninstall v.5 first.
>
> I use 4.5 myself but, like you, I long for the olden days before Zone
> Alarm decided it needed to be security supermarket.
>
> Rocky
>
> "Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:v7GGc.1953$WX.312@attbi_s51...
>> Warren,
>>
>> I honestly do not know how to get the fix.  I only know that there
>> is one. It was posted by a fellow who works for a company that makes
>> defragging software.
>>
>> I use ZA 3.7.211.0.  I didn't even like ZA 4.0
>>
>> --
>> Hope this helps.  Let us know.
>> Wes
>>
>> In news:2778501c46381$84858390$a401280a@phx.gbl,
>> Warren <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>  hunted and pecked:
>>> This is in response to your suggestion regarding my
>>> question on the
>>> Microsoft Community Newsgroup Board.
>>>
>>> Well, it worked. I disabled ZA from loading at bootup,
>>> but that didn't work.
>>> I checked ZA's website, and apparently I have the most
>>> recent version of the
>>> free version, so I uninstalled it and am in the process
>>> right now of running
>>> WINXP CHKDSK on re-boot. You indicated that ZA has a
>>> *fix* for this. It must
>>> be in the paid version of the software, huh?
>>>
>>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
>>>
>>> Warren
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> This seems to be a very common problem recently.
>>>>
>>>> Do you have ZoneAlarm 5 ??
>>>>
>>>> [[Since the new version 5.0 of TrueVector accesses the disk so
>>>> early in the boot-sequence, CHKDISK cannot run with the /F option
>>>> at boot-time, because it needs to access the disk directly.]]
>>>>
>>>> Uninstall ZA5 and install an earlier version.
>>>>
>>>> Or get the ZA update that *fixes* this problem.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Hope this helps.  Let us know.
>>>> Wes
>>>>
>>>> In news:26ba901c4636c$92533180$a601280a@phx.gbl,
>>>> Warren <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>  hunted and
>>> pecked:
>>>>> WINXP Pro; I'm able to run the very basic error-check on
>>>>> the hard drive, but when I click on either one or both
>>>>> options presented which schedule the check upon re- boot,
>>>>> the scan does not run whether I restart or shut off and
>>>>> reboot. Any hints?
>>>> .

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