Comments on: Window Update Breaks Zone Alarm http://www.sem-answers.com/window-update-breaks-zone-alarm/ Clear - Concise - Innovative Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:40:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Jim http://www.sem-answers.com/window-update-breaks-zone-alarm/#comment-535 Jim Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:22:06 +0000 http://www.sem-answers.com/?p=126#comment-535 John, often times Microsoft will release kb updates with white information at HTTP://support.microsoft.com/kb/UPDATENUMBER you need to keep in mind that they will not know all the possible conflicts that can arise. I think you should be fine with the action you have taken providing you *practice safe surfing* as they say. John, often times Microsoft will release kb updates with white information at

HTTP://support.microsoft.com/kb/UPDATENUMBER

you need to keep in mind that they will not know all the possible conflicts that can arise.

I think you should be fine with the action you have taken providing you *practice safe surfing* as they say.

]]> By: John MacGibbon http://www.sem-answers.com/window-update-breaks-zone-alarm/#comment-533 John MacGibbon Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:15:55 +0000 http://www.sem-answers.com/?p=126#comment-533 If I am manually installing Microsoft updates, how can I know which ones will conflict with software installed on my machine? I got hit by this schemozzle yesterday and it cost me an afternoon's work. Currently I have my system operating because I dropped Zone Alarm's Internet Security down to medium. I know that's not ideal, but I also have some firewall protection via my ADSL router (Dlink DSL-504T). My inclination is to keep going as I am, rather than uninstall the Microsoft update. And I'll wait for a patch from Zone Alarm, which I suspect won't take long! How safe do you think my strategy is? My worry is that if I uninstall the MS update, it won't get installed again and presumably it contains _some_ stuff that's desirable. If I am manually installing Microsoft updates, how can I know which ones will conflict with software installed on my machine?

I got hit by this schemozzle yesterday and it cost me an afternoon’s work. Currently I have my system operating because I dropped Zone Alarm’s Internet Security down to medium. I know that’s not ideal, but I also have some firewall protection via my ADSL router (Dlink DSL-504T). My inclination is to keep going as I am, rather than uninstall the Microsoft update. And I’ll wait for a patch from Zone Alarm, which I suspect won’t take long! How safe do you think my strategy is? My worry is that if I uninstall the MS update, it won’t get installed again and presumably it contains _some_ stuff that’s desirable.

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