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From: Timothy Daniels on 7 Sep 2008 22:02
I recently clicked on an invitation from Zone Labs to download
an upgrade to version 8 of Zone Alarm Security Suite. After
the installation my computer turned to cold mollases and porno
sites started popping up on my screen. I finally had to cut the
power to shut down the PC. I uninstalled Zone Alarm v. 8,
and re-installed v.7, but the PC was still slow, especially my
Opera browser. It was really slow to load (~1 min), then slow
to react to the keyboard, then slow to render a page (~1min).
Merely shutting down Zone Alarm didn't improve the speed.
I finally had to unistall v.7, manually pick through the files and
then the registry, deleting any folder named "ZoneLabs". Then
I re-installed v.7 again. Now the PC is back to normal. YMMV,
but be warned about v.8 of Zone Alarm.

*TimDaniels*


From: RnR on 8 Sep 2008 01:38
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 19:02:46 -0700, "Timothy Daniels"
<SpamBucket(a)NoSpamPlease.biz> wrote:

>I recently clicked on an invitation from Zone Labs to download
>an upgrade to version 8 of Zone Alarm Security Suite. After
>the installation my computer turned to cold mollases and porno
>sites started popping up on my screen. I finally had to cut the
>power to shut down the PC. I uninstalled Zone Alarm v. 8,
>and re-installed v.7, but the PC was still slow, especially my
>Opera browser. It was really slow to load (~1 min), then slow
>to react to the keyboard, then slow to render a page (~1min).
>Merely shutting down Zone Alarm didn't improve the speed.
>I finally had to unistall v.7, manually pick through the files and
>then the registry, deleting any folder named "ZoneLabs". Then
>I re-installed v.7 again. Now the PC is back to normal. YMMV,
>but be warned about v.8 of Zone Alarm.
>
>*TimDaniels*
>


Thanks. Yeah I think I read a while back some were complaining about
version 8 tho I didn't pay close attention to the detail because I
already switched to Kaspersky.
From: William R. Walsh on 8 Sep 2008 09:43
Hi!

> I recently clicked on an invitation from Zone Labs to download
> an upgrade to version 8 of Zone Alarm Security Suite. After
> the installation my computer turned to cold mollases and
> porno sites started popping up on my screen.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
And you're sure that you didn't fall victim to a malicious download?

I'm not the world's biggest ZoneAlarm fan, but they've always been a
reputable outfit to the best of my knowledge. I have a hard time
thinking that they would do such a thing...perhaps the software isn't
the best, but naughty advertisements?!

William
From: Jim Higgins on 9 Sep 2008 10:48
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 19:02:46 -0700, "Timothy Daniels"
<SpamBucket(a)NoSpamPlease.biz> wrote:

>I recently clicked on an invitation from Zone Labs to download
>an upgrade to version 8 of Zone Alarm Security Suite. After
>the installation my computer turned to cold mollases and porno
>sites started popping up on my screen. I finally had to cut the
>power to shut down the PC. I uninstalled Zone Alarm v. 8,
>and re-installed v.7, but the PC was still slow, especially my
>Opera browser. It was really slow to load (~1 min), then slow
>to react to the keyboard, then slow to render a page (~1min).
>Merely shutting down Zone Alarm didn't improve the speed.
>I finally had to unistall v.7, manually pick through the files and
>then the registry, deleting any folder named "ZoneLabs". Then
>I re-installed v.7 again. Now the PC is back to normal. YMMV,
>but be warned about v.8 of Zone Alarm.
>
>*TimDaniels*


Do you still have the invitation? If so, please post it complete with
all headers. You can replace your own email address with XXXX if you
don't want to expose it, but please leave the rest as is.
From: PDR on 9 Sep 2008 12:24

"Jim Higgins" <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:c13dc4l9eh52ujhnot1oq67ss9h7rguv55(a)4ax.com...

> Do you still have the invitation? If so, please post it complete with
> all headers. You can replace your own email address with XXXX if you
> don't want to expose it, but please leave the rest as is.

Yes, that was my thought as well - it looks like the "invitation" was faked.
I'd be looking to thoroughly scan everything to see what the fake upodate
has installed!

FWIW I installed ZA v8 upgrade on our four systems a few days ago without
any grief at all. Certainly an infinitely better product than Norton, whose
primary anti-malware strategy appears to be to consume all tyhe available
resources such that your PC simply has no spare capacity to run a virus (or
indeed any applications)...

PDR


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