From: Chance Furlong on
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<47a35c66-1322-4e40-9543-6f10fc1b3c2b(a)x38g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
brassplyer <brassplyer(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

> I've been using ZoneAlarm deadbeat moocher version for several years.
> After doing a clean install of XP Media Center if you haven't seen my
> recent flurry of posts, adding ZA brings things to a grinding halt.
> Half-loaded desktop, nothing responds. I noticed this behavior right
> after adding ZA. Things seem okay right after the initial install of
> ZA, but trouble starts on reboot.
>
> Went to Safe Mode, unistalled it, things fine again. Tried installing
> the old version of ZA that worked previously, same problem. Uninstall,
> things back to normal. At first I thought it might be some conflict
> with Windows Firewall, but turning off WF made no difference.
>
> I've got ZA running on another XP Home machine, no problems, and there
> were none on the XP MCE machine either until now.
>
> Any suggestions?

You can switch to the Mac and not worry about malware.